US 12,467,878 B2
Apparatus for borescope inspection of technical devices
Thorsten Schueppstuhl, Hamburg (DE); Lukas Bath, Hamburg (DE); Maik Dammann, Hamburg (DE); Mattes Schumann, Hamburg (DE); Tarek Mostafa, Schoeffengrund (DE); Oliver Neumann, Solms (DE); Werner Neddermeyer, Echternach (LU); Sven Rasche, Hamburg (DE); Tomas Domaschke, Hamburg (DE); Soenke Bahr, Darmstadt (DE); Jan Oke Peters, Hamburg (DE); and Michael Thies, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to LUFTHANSA TECHNIK AG, Hamburg (DE)
Appl. No. 17/910,354
Filed by Lufthansa Technik AG, Hamburg (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 5, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/055564
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 9, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/180582, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 106 508.6 (DE), filed on Mar. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0120378 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. G01N 21/954 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 21/954 (2013.01) [G01N 2021/9542 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for investigating a technical device using a borescope, the apparatus comprising:
a guide tube which is introducible through a borescope opening on the technical device to be inspected using the borescope and configured to be arranged on the technical device; and
a repeatedly plastically deformable carrier configured to guide a borescope head arranged at one end of the carrier,
wherein the guide tube is designed to deform the carrier during the passage of the carrier through the guide tube such that a shape of the deformed carrier when introduced into the technical device is specified by the guide tube arranged on the technical device.