Development of a probe for inner profile measurement and flaw detection

Toru Yoshizawa; Toshitaka Wakayama; Yoshihisa Kamakura

doi:10.1117/12.893463

14 September 2011 Development of a probe for inner profile measurement and flaw detection

Toru Yoshizawa, Toshitaka Wakayama, Yoshihisa Kamakura

Proceedings Volume 8133, Dimensional Optical Metrology and Inspection for Practical Applications; 81330D (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.893463
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

It is one of the important necessities to precisely measure the inner diameter and/or the inner profile of pipes, tubes and other objects similar in shape. Especially in mechanical engineering field, there are many requests from automobile industry because the inner surface of engine blocks and other die casts are strongly required to be inspected and measured by non-contact methods (not by the naked eyes inspection using a borescope). If the inner diameter is large enough like water pipes or drain pipes, complicated and large equipment may be applicable. However, small pipes with a diameter ranging from 10mm to 100mm are difficult to be inspected by such a large instrument as is used for sewers inspection. And we have proposed an instrument which has no moving elements such as a rotating mirror or a prism for scanning a beam. Our measurement method is based on optical sectioning using triangulation. This optically sectioned profile of an inner wall of pipe-like objects is analyzed to produce numerical data of inner diameter or profile. Here, we report recent development of the principle and applications of the optical instrument with a simple and compact configuration. In addition to profile measurement, we found flaws and defects on the inner wall were also detected by using the similar principle. Up to now, we have developed probes with the diameter of 8mm to 25mm for small size objects and another probe (80 mm in diameter) for such a larger container with the dimensional size of 600mm.

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Toru Yoshizawa, Toshitaka Wakayama, and Yoshihisa Kamakura "Development of a probe for inner profile measurement and flaw detection", Proc. SPIE 8133, Dimensional Optical Metrology and Inspection for Practical Applications, 81330D (14 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.893463

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