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Data Processing: Measuring, Calibrating, Or Testing > Measurement System In A Specific Environment > Mechanical Measurement System > Flaw Or Defect Detection Flaw Or Defect DetectionFlaw Or Defect Detection patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.12/07/06 - 20060276976 - Semiconductor wafer inspection system A method and system for identifying a defect or contamination on a surface of a material. The method and system involves providing a material, such as a semiconductor wafer, using a non-vibrating contact potential difference sensor to scan the wafer, generate contact potential difference data and processing that data to ... 11/23/06 - 20060265145 - Flexible hybrid defect classification for semiconductor manufacturing Hybrid methods for classifying defects in semiconductor manufacturing are provided. The methods include applying a flexible sequence of rules for defects to inspection data. The sequence of rules includes deterministic rules, statistical rules, hybrid rules, or some combination thereof. The rules included in the sequence may be selected by a ... 11/02/06 - 20060247868 - Apparatus and method for detection of defects using flux leakage techniques An apparatus for the detection of defects utilizing non-destructive flux leakage techniques in ferrous materials includes rare earth magnets which are supported at an angle in the order of 45 degrees with the surface of the test specimen to induce a magnetic field within the material. The angled arrangement draws ... 06/15/06 - 20060129335 - Test apparatus The test apparatus according to the present invention includes: a data sampler for acquiring a plurality of data sample values for data signals from the DUT; a data change point detection section for detecting a data change point from the sample value; a data change point storage section for writing ... 05/25/06 - 20060111853 - Vehicle wheel state monitoring device and method A vehicle wheel state monitoring device appropriately determines whether it is probable that a vehicle wheel is damaged by setting a threshold value for damage determination in accordance with a type of the vehicle wheel fitted to the vehicle. A road surface input calculation portion calculates a road surface input ... 05/25/06 - 20060111852 - Autonomous non-destructive inspection Autonomous non-destructive inspection equipment provides automatic and/or continuous inspection and evaluation of a material under inspection. The inspection equipment comprises at least one detection sensor and at least one detection sensor interface for a computer. The signals are communicated from the sensor to the computer. The signals are then conditioned ... 05/25/06 - 20060111851 - Fuel theft detection system and method A fuel theft detection system (50) for detecting when fuel has been stolen from a vehicle's fuel tank (16) is disclosed. The detection system (50) comprises input means (56) that is connectable to a vehicle's fuel level sensor (14) for providing an indication of the fuel level in the vehicle's ... 05/18/06 - 20060106552 - Method for generating a control output for a position control loop A method for optically detecting the position of a moveable test object (10), especially a mirror or reflector, in which a measuring beam (6) produced by a light source (2) is reflected by the test object (10 and reaches a position-sensitive light detector (12) which carrier out a conversion into ... 05/18/06 - 20060106551 - Method for reducing the computation resources required for determining damage in structural health management system A method for determining damage in a structural health monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensors distributed across a structure is disclosed. The method includes decomposing the plurality of sensors into a plurality of sub-arrays. Each sub-array is associated with a current sensor. For each sub-array, data is collected, the ... 05/11/06 - 20060100795 - Method of regulating resistance in a discontinuous time hot-wire anemometer A system and method are provided to regulate resistance in a discontinuous time hot-wire anemometer. The solution removes supply voltage dependency on the mass airflow output signal. Operating the hot-wire anemometer using discontinuous time regulation offers lower system power, but introduces an inverse supply dependent term in the associated transfer ... 05/04/06 - 20060095216 - Optic module calibration using an enhanced golden module A system for calibrating a production module having a production module transmitter, a production module receiver, a production module controller, a production module optical device driver, and at least one of a production module post-amplifier, a production module retimer, a production module equalizer and a production module wakeup function. The ... 05/04/06 - 20060095215 - Computer-assisted method for calculating the temperature of a solid body In a method for the calculation of a temperature T of a solid body of a liquid cooling medium, or the time t needed for a temperature change of the solid body or the liquid cooling medium, the differential equation dT/dt=b−cT is converted into a dimensionless differential equation. The function ... 04/13/06 - 20060080048 - Sensor infrastructure A device for use in detecting an event in a structure comprises a sensor encapsulation, the encapsulation containing a sensor, an actuator positioned substantially in-plane to the sensor within the housing and a printed circuit board in communication with at least one of the sensor and the actuator. the printed ... 02/02/06 - 20060025937 - Method for detecting leak before rupture in a pipeline A method for leak-before-rupture assessment including using a failure assessment diagram (FAD) assessment curve from a crack initiation based FAD analysis to analyze a crack in a material; and using a ductile tearing analysis in conjunction with the FAD assessment curve to detect a crack exhibiting at least one of ... 11/17/05 - 20050256655 - System and method for identifying failure candidates in a semiconductor apparatus A failure candidates identifying system has a tree structure in which input patterns selected from a failure dictionary are set as nodes. The failure candidates identifying system comprises a failure candidates searching tree in which an input pattern does not exist with overlapping in a route from a root node ... 10/20/05 - 20050234658 - Semiconductor wafer inspection system A method and system for identifying a defect or contamination on a surface of a material. The method and system involves providing a material, such as a semiconductor wafer, using a non-vibrating contact potential difference sensor to scan the wafer, generate contact potential difference data and processing that data to ... 10/20/05 - 20050234657 - Automotive latch debug and diagnostic user interface Diagnostic data associated with a latch can be generated in response to automatically analyzing the latch. A graphical user interface is provided for graphically displaying the diagnostic data within a display area thereof. Additionally, a communications link between the graphical user interface and the latch can be implemented over which ... 10/13/05 - 20050228597 - Structural health monitoring system utilizing guided lamb waves embedded ultrasonic structural radar A method and device for performing ultrasonic damage detection in a thin-wall structure using an array of embedded Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors (PWAS) for the transmission and reception of guided waves and a signal processing methodology based on the beamforming process. The beamforming signal processing has been adapted to the ... 08/11/05 - 20050177321 - Method and system for online condition monitoring of multistage rotary machinery The present invention provides a method and system for online health condition monitoring of rotary machinery such as printing presses. The rotary machines have one or more stages and each stage has one or more rotary components. The method comprises the steps of: receiving one or more signals from sensors ... 08/11/05 - 20050177320 - Gas flow method for detection of preform defects based on transient pressure measurement Method and apparatus to detect and characterize a defect in a fiber preform residing in a preform-receiving cavity of a mold or simulated mold of the type used for liquid composite molding (e.g., resin transfer molding) to make a composite component or structure. The defect may result from fiber preform ... 06/09/05 - 20050125164 - Method for dynamically monitoring a reticle The method of dynamically monitoring a reticle includes preventively macro monitoring and defect inspecting with regard to mechanical loading, including particle deposits or electrostatically induced damage, and energy load, including the associated changes to the reticle material and surface characteristics. Different surface distributions of the absorber layer as well as ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |