Areva Nc

Jean-Jacques Marchal

Luc Collette

Patrice Duval

Noël Lantheaume

Device for handling objects in a glove box comprising a carriage () to support the objects to be handled, a base () relative to which the carriage () can be moved along a horizontal axis (X), means of driving the carriage () along the first axis (X), these drive means comprising an electric motor () arranged such that its drive shaft is orthogonal to the axis (X) and projects opposite the base (), a transmission shaft () parallel to the motor (), a rack () fixed to the base () along the axis (X) and a pinion () directly fixed in rotation to the transmission shaft () and engaging with the rack (), a transmission belt () mechanically connecting the drive shaft of the motor () to the transmission shaft (), the electric motor () being declutchable and the carriage possibly being moved manually along the axis (X).

Device for handling objects in a glove box

A device for identifying a metal substrate present in a strongly metallic environment that may also be dusty. The device includes a passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) label, a label carrier suitable for being attached to the metal substrate and to position the label at a distance therefrom, and a RFID reader having an antenna that includes, as an induction loop, two sections of a coaxial cable having a substantially identical length and each including a metal core and a metal pleat surrounding the core, the two sections being linked together, on the one hand, at one end thereof by connecting the core of one to the pleat of the other and conversely and, on the other hand, at the other end thereof by connecting only the pleats together, the cores thereof being separated at said other end.

Device having reduced overall dimensions for identifying a metal substrate in a dusty and metallic environment, and application for identifying containers containing nuclear fuel elements in the production plant thereof

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Lieuran-Cabrieres, France

Jean-Jacques Marchal