Patent ID: 9557302
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G01N

Claim:
1. An ultrasound inspection roller provided with a wheel comprising: at least at its cover, a deformable material, an ultrasound sensing system and a support for holding the sensing system inside the wheel, the ultrasound system further comprises a wedge connected to the ultrasound sensing system at one end and provided with a curved profile at its other end facing the wheel, configured to the curvilinear shape of the wheel, and a liquid placed inside the wheel such that the sensory system, the wheel and the wedge are acoustically couple, wherein the thickness of the wheel, Er, thickness of a part to be inspected, Ep, and the thickness of the wedge, Ec, follow the following relationships: wherein, Vr is the propagating speed of the wave in the wheel; Vp is the wave's propagating speed in the part, and Vc the speed in the wedge.