Patent ID: 8960006
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
1. An ultrasonic inspection apparatus comprising: an ultrasonic probe apparatus comprising a switch configured to receive at least one of an inspection-starting command or an inspection-terminating command; a drive element selecting section, connected to the plurality of piezoelectric vibrators, to select a piezoelectric vibrator based on a drive signal from a signal generator; a signal detecting circuit connected to receive the electric echo signal; and a signal processing section to: wherein the display unit is configured to display that the ultrasonic transducer properly faces an inspected surface in an inspection region by a cross-sectional image in the inspection region of at least the inspection object as an image based on the internal image of the inspection object produced in the signal processing unit, and wherein the switch is configured to set the inspection condition including the inspection-starting command, the inspection terminating command, and a position adjustment of an image-starting-position at a time of producing the cross-sectional image.