US 12,247,929 B2
Apparatus and method for inspecting technical devices using a borescope
Jan Oke Peters, Hamburg (DE); Michael Thies, Hamburg (DE); Thorsten Schueppstuhl, Hamburg (DE); and Lukas Bath, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to LUFTHANSA TECHNIK AG, Hamburg (DE)
Appl. No. 17/910,356
Filed by Lufthansa Technik AG, Hamburg (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 9, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/055882
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 9, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/180698, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 106 509.4 (DE), filed on Mar. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0121496 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. G01N 21/954 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 17/02 (2006.01); G01N 33/00 (2006.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01); H04N 23/50 (2023.01)
CPC G01N 21/954 (2013.01) [B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); B25J 17/0283 (2013.01); G01N 35/0099 (2013.01); H04N 23/555 (2023.01); G01N 2021/9542 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for inspecting a technical device using a borescope, the apparatus comprising:
a repeatedly plastically deformable and elongated carrier which is guidable in a deforming unit, wherein the deforming unit comprises:
a stationary guide configured to axially guide the carrier at an outlet end; and
an actuator which is configured to axially guide the carrier, and is configured to move in at least one direction perpendicular to the gap between the guide and the actuator in order selectively to apply a bending moment to the carrier guided by the guide and the actuator, and
wherein a borescope head is arranged at that end of the carrier which protrudes from the outlet end of the deforming unit.