Ultrasonic probe, in particular for manual inspections
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Nov 4, 2003
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Oct 9, 2003
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Mar 13, 2003
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Nov 22, 2000
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The invention relates to an ultrasonic probe comprising: --a housing (20), which accommodates an ultrasonic transducer and has a contact surface for making contact with the surface (28) of a body (30) to be inspected; --at least one digital camera (36), which is allocated to the housing (20) and which is aligned in such a way that it registers the surface (28) of the body (30) and supplies a respective electronic image of sub-sections of the surface (28) of the body (30) at intervals; --a circuit for image processing (40), which has an image memory (42) for at least one electronic image that has been registered by the digital camera (36). Said circuit also comprises a comparator (44) that compares two electronic images of the body (30) to be inspected, registered by the digital camera (36) at different times and that determines the displacement of the housing (20) in relation to the surface (28); and a displacement memory (46), which contains the displacement of the housing (20) and the current position of the housing (20) in relation to the original location (48).
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