Patent ID: 6960867
Filing Date: 2005-11-01
Classification: G01N,H04B

Abstract:
1. Installation for equipping a structure to be inspected, said installation consisting essentially of: at least one external circuit, which is external to said structure; and at least one device incorporated into said structure during the production of the structure, whereby said at least one incorporated device is able respectively (a) to receive electromagnetic signals from said at least one external circuit and transmit corresponding ultrasonic waves into the structure to be inspected, and (b) to receive ultrasonic waves from the structure and transmit corresponding electromagnetic signals to said at least one external circuit; wherein said at least one incorporated device has no electrical wire link with any said external circuit nor with any other said incorporated device of said installation, and wherein said at least one incorporated device consists of (a) a piezoelectric element for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic waves respectively in and from said structure and (b) a magnetic induction loop for receiving and transmitting electromagnetic signals respectively from and to said at least one external circuit, and wherein said piezoelectric element has electrodes connected to electrodes of said magnetic induction loop.