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December 6th, the research, and development technology of Yateks Industrial Video Endoscope project made new progress. Among them, “ENDOSCOPE LOCKING METHOD” was granted a US invention patent (patent grant number: US 11,045,068 B2). This technological achievement is one of our company’s independent research and development of industrial endoscope products. The team members of the endoscopy team take the product’s economy, practicality, and convenience as the starting point to enhance the product’s global competitiveness.

At present, the angle control of endoscopes on the market is divided into two types: manual control and electric control.

Disadvantages of the manual control method:

1. The control method cannot achieve any angle lock at the locking angle.

2.It cannot be operated with one hand; it is more laborious to lock.

3.High-strength use will affect the service life of the steel wire.

Disadvantages of electric control method:

1. The user holds the outer sleeve of the endoscope with one hand to observe the object, and the other hand performs critical operations to lock the signal. In this way, the practicability of the electric control endoscope is significantly reduced.

To overcome the shortcomings of the above two control methods, the invention proposes a device and method that can conveniently perform fixed-point locking and follow-up locking of an endoscope with one hand. The invention realizes the function of tracking and locking the bending angle of the front end of the endoscope with one hand. It solves practical problems such as the discomfort of the manual control mode of the endoscope during high-intensity use, the lock at any angle, the service life of the steel wire lock, and the one-handed operation.

The patent is an important indicator to measure an enterprise’s technological innovation ability and level. Invention patents are the patents with the highest technical content, both domestically and abroad. Yateks through the innovation of endoscope technology, process, and equipment. Independently developed multiple series of industrial endoscope products. This patent is the latest achievement of Yateks endoscopy technology research and development. At present, the company has obtained 31 domestic invention patents, two overseas invention patents (Europe and the United States), 11 utility models, 11 software copyrights, and overseas appearance There are four patents, three domestic appearances, and several product technologies are the first at home and abroad.

In recent years, Yateks has actively implemented the internationalization strategy of intellectual property rights and has increased its efforts in foreign patent applications for the company’s core and cutting-edge technologies. The invention patent of Yateks has been authorized by the United States, demonstrating the company’s intense technical research and development strength and improving the core competitiveness of its products. At the same time, it also provides strong technical support and guarantees for the sustainable development of Yateks in the international market. Yateks has a complete scientific research system and a continuously strong R&D team. Its self-developed industrial endoscopes and oil monitoring and analysis instruments are exported to more than 30 countries and regions. Customers have received the product quality well at home and abroad.

As a green and clean energy, wind power has been widely distributed in the global market in recent years, gradually replacing traditional firepower and nuclear power and other high-risk and high-polluting energy generation.

All the existing wind power equipment requires regular inspection and maintenance. Since most of the wind power generation equipment is built in remote areas, each inspection and maintenance requires a lot of manual work. If these maintenance engineers have some convenient inspection equipment that can be carried with them to inspect the parts that are invisible to the eyes, this will greatly improve their work efficiency. Industrial video endoscopes are such a perfect tool.

Both wind power enterprise users and maintenance service companies have begun to use Borescope (Industrial Endoscope) for regular inspection and maintenance of wind power equipment.

Most people think that Borescope inspection is very complicated and requires professionally trained personnel to operate it. Many wind power companies have to hire a third-party inspection company to do this service. In fact, they can do this work by themselves.

Yateks, a 20-year-old factory located in Shenzhen, China, specializes in R&D and manufacturing of Industrial Borescopes, our mission is to bring more convenient and cost-effective equipment to the non-destructive testing industry. Through joint efforts with partners and distributors in different industries around the world, we have developed a variety of Borescopes which suitable for wind power industry testing. Among of them, this new Q series is the best choice.

The Borescope could be used to inspect the wind turbine gearboxes, bearings, Blade and generators of wind turbines. This new Q series is very suitable for wind power industry applications. It adopts the most advanced image processing technology, with a megapixel camera, which can make images high-definition and delicate.

There are many polished surfaces of the inspected objects in the wind power gearbox, and it is difficult to see the defects and cracks of the gear. With this Q series Borescope, you can see a clear image, any cracks or defects can be seen clearly.

The bearing part is the source of gear failure, which can cause string movement and abnormal noise in the meshing of the high-speed shaft and the intermediate shaft gear. When a bearing defect is detected, we recommend that you replace the corresponding failed bearing and other bearings in time to avoid the risk of secondary maintenance.

Bearings are also the hardest hit area for light reflection, even worse than gears. Bearings in the squeezed state may be severely worn, and the metal shavings that fall off will cause new wear areas. During inspections, they are often unclear due to reflections or limited depth of field. The automatic brightness adjustment of the Borescope can solve this problem.

The 5.5-inch oled high-definition touch screen makes the image clear even in the sun, which is very suitable for outdoor detection, with a resolution of up to 1920*1080. The characteristics of the screen itself can make the image more three-dimensional and the details more delicate. In addition, advanced backlight technology and color filtering technology are used to make this screen bright, adjustable, and eye-friendly.

A host can be equipped with a variety of probe tubess of different diameters and lengths to meet different detection requirements, and the connection between the host and the probe adopts the HDMI socket, which is more reliable.

The camera head is interchangeable, once the camera is damaged, there is no need to send it back to the pipeline or the whole machine for repair, just simply replace it with the camera, which greatly alleviates the customer’s worries and pains about the long after-sales delivery period.

Multi-screen display, by Wifi or wireless, easy to share.

When the inspectors arrive at the scene, they can share the fault situation at the scene in real time through the network. Remote professional and technical personnel can more accurately guide the inspection of key components by front-line inspection personnel through the network, including defect measurement and analysis of key components.

The handheld design with a a strong and durable bracket is very suitable for outdoor work, and the interface is as simple and easy to operate as a smart phone. Whether you want to take photos, video or edit pictures, it is very convenient and quick.

Yateks has distributors and partners in many countries around the world, and can provide you with on-site demonstrations and operation training to solve your after-sales problems.

With the development of quality control for industrial areas, the demands for industrial borescope have been becoming higher and higher. From an overall view, industrial endoscopes are widely used for inspections in the practice of many industries such as aviation, oil&gas, power generation, automotive manufacturing, railway transportation, etc. to check the defects, cracks, soldering conditions, foreign objects, and other abnormal situations. On market, there are main three types of industrial borescopes such as non-articulating borescopes, articulating borescopes, and measurement borescopes. Many users may have been very familiar with the first two types, so we’d like to share more about the third type -measurement borescope.

As its name shows, measurement borescope is a type of borescope with size measurement function. While doing inspection, this borescope can not only be used to inspect the internal defects or cracks inside the equipment, but also used to find out how serious the defects are. In this case, the measurement results of the length, area and depth of the defected area is needed for evaluation and judgement. Such a borescope is mostly used in aviation industry, as the flight safety for airplanes is extremely essential. However, this requires high technology with advanced algorithm, making the price of such a borescope very high.

We have surveyed many borescope users who has a need of measurement, and the result is that they are only willing to pay for expensive measurement borescope when it’s quite necessary. For some general inspections, they only want the basic measurement of crack length measurement instead of depth or area measurement. That’s one of the reason why our Reference Measurement function is ready for you.

Reference Measurement is to measure a line length by a reference object in the same picture. The principle is “Similar Triangles”. Let me clarify this in an easier and more understandable way:

• The size of the image captured by camera is affected by the distance between the camera and the object. For example, the close the camera is closer to the object, the bigger image is shown on the captured image. This variant seems to make itvery difficult to measure the actual size of the object because it’s too difficult to control the distance to confirm the zooming ratio.
• However, do not forget the charm of the Reference in the same image. If there is a Reference object/line in the same image, the distance between the camera and reference object is the same as that between the camera and the object/line to be measured, which means the zooming ratio for both objects is the same. In this case, there are three known data(Actual length of Reference, the pixel value of the reference line and  the pixel value of the length to be measured), then the actual length to be measured can be calculated based on the ratio formula. See below for reference.
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  What applications can the Reference Measurement is used?

  As long as there is a reference object in the same photo and its size is known, it is easy to get the measurement result of any crack size accurately. Except the aviation industry, you can use this reference function in many different industries to find out the defect area and measure the defect size, so that the serious degree of this defect can be evaluated and decided whether to handle it or not. This function offers measurable results, which is quite helpful for some decisions.

  

  Which borescopes are with additional Reference Measurement function?

  As a professional borescope manufacturer, Yateks is always ready to offer the best solution to our customers in all ways. We understand that this reference measurement function can help lots of customers to do better inspection and report with image and data to their superior, so we have made it the additional feature for those borescope platforms which allows this set of algorithm. Until now, Yateks desktop P Series and new product portable Q Series have this reference measurement function. What’s more, on Q Series, the operating way is more intuitive and user-friendly.

  You can gain this useful additional feature without paying much for the expensive 3D measurement. If you are interested in experiencing this function, please do not hesitate to contact us so that our regional sales manager can demo that function to you. You’re welcomed to try out this new feature!