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1. 发明申请

US20220065824A1 ULTRASONIC METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FLUID QUALITY MEASUREMENT, CLASSIFICATION, AND MONITORING 有权
公开(公告)号：US20220065824A1
公开(公告)日：2022-03-03
申请号：US17411605
申请日：2021-08-25
申请人： BERKELEY SPRINGS INSTRUMENTS LLC
发明人： Eugene B. SILVERMAN
IPC分类号： G01N29/44 , G01N29/036 , G01N29/46
摘要： A system and method for determining fluid quality or change in quality by training machine learning algorithms using ultrasound Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) signatures. The system includes one or more ultrasonic transducers embedded inside or outside of a pipe, piping, or vessel that allows a fluid to flow past or between the ultrasound transducers. The transducer's acoustic energy creates ultrasound pressure waves and localized heat due to acoustic cavitation. The cavitation creates bubbles that collapse creating ultrasound sonic energy in the time domain. Unique sonic time-domain signatures, distinctively associated with the characteristics of the fluids, are converted to FFTs to produce unique, well-defined frequency response signatures. Machine learning algorithms are used to identify, measure, and classify the unique frequency response signatures associated with a wide range of fluids.

2. 发明申请

US20170067736A1 ULTRASONIC CATHODIC PROTECTION TEST STATION 审中-公开
标题翻译：超声波阴极保护测试站
公开(公告)号：US20170067736A1
公开(公告)日：2017-03-09
申请号：US15255800
申请日：2016-09-02
申请人： BERKELEY SPRINGS INSTRUMENTS LLC
发明人： Eugene B. SILVERMAN
IPC分类号： G01B17/02 , G01N27/02 , G01N17/04
CPC分类号： G01B17/02 , G01N17/043 , G01N27/021 , G01N29/07 , G01N29/28 , G01N2291/011 , G01N2291/0258 , G01N2291/02854
摘要： Ultrasonic transducers are imbedded into sacrificial metal coupons which are located in the vicinity of underground or aboveground structures, such as a pipe or tank, which allow for the measurement of the effectiveness of impressed current cathodic protection systems and can be used to determine the corrosion rate of the structure that is being protected. When excited by a pulser-receiver excitation pulse, the ultrasonic transducers can be used to determine the thickness of the coupon and its rate of change over time. The sacrificial metal coupon ultrasonic transducer assembly can be located in the vicinity of underground piping, under or inside of a tank, underground or underwater, or inserted into structures where absolute material loss values or material loss rate of change is being monitored.
摘要翻译：超声波换能器被嵌入牺牲金属试样，其位于地下或地上结构附近，例如管或罐，其允许测量外加电流阴极保护系统的有效性，并且可用于确定腐蚀速率的被保护的结构。当由脉冲发生器接收器激发脉冲激发时，超声换能器可用于确定试样的厚度及其随时间的变化率。牺牲金属试样超声波换能器组件可以位于地下管线附近，在地下或水下的罐的下面或内部，或插入到正在监测绝对材料损失值或材料损失变化率的结构中。

3. 发明授权

US10782161B2 Ultrasonic transducer mounting apparatus for attaching a transducer block to a pipeline 有权
公开(公告)号：US10782161B2
公开(公告)日：2020-09-22
申请号：US15185635
申请日：2016-06-17
申请人： BERKELEY SPRINGS INSTRUMENTS LLC
发明人： Eugene B. Silverman , Nischom K. Silverman
IPC分类号： G01D11/30 , G01N29/28 , G01N29/22
摘要： A transducer mounting apparatus can be used to remotely monitor the integrity of pipes or pipelines, which ordinarily are difficult to access due to environmental factors. The transducer mounting apparatus can include one or more transducer blocks, each adapted for receiving a transducer. A UT couplant and threaded transducer are positioned in an opening in the transducer block. A gear wheel adjusts the transducer up and down against the UT couplant to optimize the positioning relative to the pipe being monitored. A series of transducer blocks are connected by a tension block and or more wire ropes extending through the tension block and the transducer blocks. The length of the wire rope is adjusted with a set screw extending from the tension block to a transducer block, thereby allowing the transducer block assembly to accommodate different pipe diameters or mechanical structures of varying dimensions that are not necessarily round.

4. 发明授权

US10352696B2 Ultrasonic cathodic protection test station 有权
公开(公告)号：US10352696B2
公开(公告)日：2019-07-16
申请号：US15255800
申请日：2016-09-02
申请人： BERKELEY SPRINGS INSTRUMENTS LLC
发明人： Eugene B. Silverman
IPC分类号： G01N17/04 , G01N29/28 , G01N29/07 , G01B17/02 , G01N27/02
摘要： Ultrasonic transducers are imbedded into sacrificial metal coupons which are located in the vicinity of underground or aboveground structures, such as a pipe or tank, which allow for the measurement of the effectiveness of impressed current cathodic protection systems and can be used to determine the corrosion rate of the structure that is being protected. When excited by a pulser-receiver excitation pulse, the ultrasonic transducers can be used to determine the thickness of the coupon and its rate of change over time. The sacrificial metal coupon ultrasonic transducer assembly can be located in the vicinity of underground piping, under or inside of a tank, underground or underwater, or inserted into structures where absolute material loss values or material loss rate of change is being monitored.

5. 发明授权

US07467560B2 Broadband long pulse ultrasonic inspection 失效
标题翻译：宽带长脉冲超声波检查
公开(公告)号：US07467560B2
公开(公告)日：2008-12-23
申请号：US10528410
申请日：2003-09-24
申请人： Eugene Ben Silverman , Richard Skallos
发明人： Eugene Ben Silverman , Richard Skallos
IPC分类号： G01M19/00 , G01H1/00 , G01N29/00
CPC分类号： G01N29/265 , B06B1/0284 , B06B2201/70 , G01N29/225 , G01N29/341 , G01N29/348 , G01N2291/02872 , G01N2291/044 , G01N2291/106 , G01N2291/2632
摘要： A robotic ultrasonic inspection vehicle is provided with one or more transducers which are driven by a long, broadband excitation pulse for insonifying a sample subject to inspection. The long, broadband excitation pulse can be chirped. The robotic vehicle also can include a drive circuit for coupling the excitation pulse to the transducer. Data associated with the excitation pulse is used to gate off the drive circuitry at an appropriate time. The robotic vehicle may traverse a combustion prone region and therefore electrical parameters may be limited to intrinsically safe levels. However electrical parameters may safely be converted to higher levels so long as the conversion is inhibited to occur only after the vehicle has left a combustion prone region and entered a region of minimal risk of combustion.
摘要翻译：机器人超声波检查车辆设置有一个或多个换能器，其由长的宽带激励脉冲驱动，用于使待检查的样品失真。长时间的宽带激励脉冲可以被啁啾。机器人车辆还可以包括用于将激励脉冲耦合到换能器的驱动电路。与激励脉冲相关的数据用于在适当的时间关闭驱动电路。机器人车辆可以穿过易燃燃烧区域，因此电气参数可能被限制在本质安全的水平。然而，只要在车辆离开燃烧容易区域并进入最小燃烧风险的区域之后，只要转换被抑制才能将电气参数安全地转换成更高的水平。

6. 发明授权

US08521453B1 Wireless sensor and data management system and method for monitoring the integrity of mechanical structures 有权
标题翻译：无线传感器和数据管理系统及监控机械结构完整性的方法
公开(公告)号：US08521453B1
公开(公告)日：2013-08-27
申请号：US12724186
申请日：2010-03-15
申请人： Eugene B. Silverman , Nischom K. Silverman , Paul Baity
发明人： Eugene B. Silverman , Nischom K. Silverman , Paul Baity
IPC分类号： G01F17/00 , H04B15/00
CPC分类号： G01N29/043 , G01N29/30 , G01N29/343 , G01N29/50 , G01N2291/044
摘要： A method and apparatus for inspecting a wall of a mechanical structure including obtaining an infinite response from a sample material having a front face, a thickness, and a back wall, by transmitting into a sample material an ultrasonic wave having a frequency and duration and being generated by one or more transducers, wherein the thickness of the sample material is sufficiently great that only a wave corresponding to the front face of the sample is received back; transmitting an ultrasonic wave generated by one or more transducers into the wall of a mechanical structure to be inspected at a time (T), wherein the ultrasonic wave has the same frequency and duration as the ultrasonic wave transmitted into the sample material; receiving a response signal back from the wall to be inspected; and correlating the response signal to the infinite response, thereby creating correlated data. The system can be operated remotely and wirelessly, and data can be transmitted and received via the Internet or local area network, either wireless or wired.
摘要翻译：一种用于检查机械结构的壁的方法和装置，包括从具有正面，厚度和后壁的样品材料获得无限响应，通过向样品材料中传输具有频率和持续时间的超声波，并且由一个或多个换能器产生，其中样品材料的厚度足够大，使得只有与样品前表面相对应的波被接收回来; 在时间（T）将由一个或多个换能器产生的超声波传输到待检查的机械结构的壁中，其中超声波具有与传输到样品材料中的超声波相同的频率和持续时间; 从墙壁接收待检测的响应信号; 并将响应信号与无限响应相关联，从而产生相关数据。该系统可以远程和无线操作，数据可以通过互联网或局域网无线或有线传输和接收。

7. 发明授权

US10345221B1 Ultrasonic corrosion coupon probe 有权
公开(公告)号：US10345221B1
公开(公告)日：2019-07-09
申请号：US14757435
申请日：2015-12-23
申请人： BERKELEY SPRINGS INSTRUMENTS LLC
发明人： Eugene B. Silverman
IPC分类号： G01N17/04 , G01N29/22 , G01B17/02 , G01N29/07
摘要： A sacrificial metal coupon is provided with one or more ultrasonic transducers which, when excited by a pulser-receiver excitation pulse, determines the thickness of the coupon and its rate of change over time. The sacrificial metal coupon ultrasonic transducer assembly can be inserted into the liquid stream of a pipe, under or inside of a tank, underground or underwater, or inserted into structures where absolute material loss values or material loss rate of change is being monitored.

8. 发明申请

US20160370212A1 TRANSDUCER MOUNTING APPARATUS 审中-公开
标题翻译：传感器安装设备
公开(公告)号：US20160370212A1
公开(公告)日：2016-12-22
申请号：US15185635
申请日：2016-06-17
申请人： BERKELEY SPRINGS INSTRUMENTS LLC
发明人： Eugene B. SILVERMAN , Nischom K. SILVERMAN
IPC分类号： G01D11/30
CPC分类号： G01D11/30 , G01N29/223 , G01N29/28 , G01N2291/2634
摘要： A transducer mounting apparatus can be used to remotely monitor the integrity of pipes or pipelines, which ordinarily are difficult to access due to environmental factors. The transducer mounting apparatus can include one or more transducer blocks, each adapted for receiving a transducer. A UT couplant and threaded transducer are positioned in an opening in the transducer block. A gear wheel adjusts the transducer up and down against the UT couplant to optimize the positioning relative to the pipe being monitored. A series of transducer blocks are connected by a tension block and or more wire ropes extending through the tension block and the transducer blocks. The length of the wire rope is adjusted with a set screw extending from the tension block to a transducer block, thereby allowing the transducer block assembly to accommodate different pipe diameters or mechanical structures of varying dimensions that are not necessarily round.
摘要翻译：传感器安装装置可以用于远程监测由于环境因素而通常难以进入的管道或管道的完整性。换能器安装装置可以包括一个或多个换能器块，每个换能器块适于接收换能器。 UT耦合剂和螺纹传感器位于换能器块的开口中。齿轮相对于UT联轴器上下调节传感器，以优化相对于被监测管道的定位。一系列传感器块通过张力块和/或更多穿过张力块和换能器块的钢丝绳连接。钢丝绳的长度用从张力块延伸到换能器块的固定螺丝调节，从而允许换能器组件适应不同尺寸的不同管道直径或不一定是圆形的机械结构。

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