| US 7,535,990 B2 | ||
| Low profile vision system for remote x-ray inspection | ||
| Mortenza Safai, Seattle, Wash. (US); and Gary Georgeson, Federal Way, Wash. (US) | ||
| Assigned to The Boeing Company, Chicago, Ill. (US) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 22, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/615,639. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0152084 A1, Jun. 26, 2008 | ||
| Int. Cl. G01N 23/083 (2006.01); G01T 1/20 (2006.01); H01L 27/142 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 378—63 [378/57; 378/62; 250/368; 250/370.09] | 11 Claims |
| 1. An inspection system for producing an x-ray image and a corresponding visual image of an inspected part, comprising:
an x-ray detector having a generally planar x-ray sensing surface adapted to produce an x-ray image of an inspected part;
an x-ray transmissive and optically reflective coating covering the x-ray sensing surface; and
at least one optical wide angle camera mounted next to the x-ray sensing surface such that the optically reflective coating
is in the field of view of the optical camera, said optical camera adapted to produce a visual image of the inspected part
corresponding to the x-ray image of the inspected part produced by the x-ray detector, wherein the visual image is produced
from an optical image of the inspected part reflected from the optically reflective coating.
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