Petroleo Brasileiro S.a. - Petrobras

Servio Nacional De Aprendizagem Industrial—senai

Servico Nacional De Aprendizagem Industrial—departamento Regional De Santa Catarina-sena/sc

Petróleo Brasileiro S.a.—petrobras; Servio Nacional De Aprendizagem

Industrial Departamento Regional De Santa Catarina—senai/sc

André Viegas Wentz

Hugo Francisco Lisboa Santos

Enzo Costamilan

Cristiane Mioto Becker

Eduardo Gerhardt

Ney Robinson Salvi Dos Reis

Frederico Eggers

Igor Mendes Ursine Krettli

Lucas Bianco Garcia Da Silva

Antonio Droescher Sandri

Anchoring systems can be applied to connect a robotic system with its power supply structure (for example, umbilical cables), and then separate the same into several modules, each containing a pair of anchors. A sleeve is tensioned, by pulling the ring against its stop and, thus, performing a self-locking. The self-locking occurs because the friction force generated at the lace interface is greater than the sleeve tensioning force. In addition, the mesh is tightened by threading the stop of the ring in the house of the ring. The anchoring systems can be applied to any part of the robot and as many times as necessary, not being limited to the connection with the umbilical.

System of anchoring by self-locking of woven fiber sleeves

The present invention provides a casing system for integration of modular internal intervention equipment in tubular lines, wherein the equipment comprises a plurality of modules (), the casing system comprising a sleeve () encasing, in an integral manner, at least one module () of the plurality of modules () and at least one portion of at least one component upstream () or downstream () of said at least one module (). The integration casing system of the present invention guarantees the mechanical integration of all the modular internal intervention equipment, rendering viable the operation thereof inside tubular lines in a safer, more efficient and more advantageous manner.

Casing system for integration of modular internal intervention equipment in tubular lines

The present invention is used to compose the structure of a system that operates inside pipelines. It can be used in a robotic system in the form of a train to move tools inside small diameter tubes or ducts. It avoids the need for costly commercial connectors with limited variety of connections. The proposed solution is to partition/separate the electronic or hydraulic components into pressure vessel modules, thereby making it necessary to provide an adequate means of interconnection between said modules by means of an elastomeric conduit. Each module has a heat exchanger system (sink) to remove the heat generated by the electronic equipment installed inside thereof. The product of the invention has a sufficient degree of freedom to move in ducts and underwater pipes, where the hydrostatic pressure is extremely high.

Protection modules for on-board electronics and interconnection method

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Porto Alegre, Brazil

André Viegas Wentz