Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated

Kiyoshi Koizumi

Keiichi Iwamoto

Masaaki Torichigai

Shozo Kaneko

Shigeru Shimojo

Joji Ichinari

Yoshimi Okabe

Takuzo Maeyama

Kenichi Nii

An automatic tube circumference scanning apparatus automatically performs inspections, repairs and other operation on a group of tubes arrayed in a narrow space and extending in horizontal directions. The apparatus includes an upper support/traverse section mounted on an upper tube in the group of tubes so as to be able to travel along a tube axis and to stop and grip the upper tube, a lower support/traverse section mounted on a lower tube so as to be able to travel, stop and grip the lower tube, a flexible rail extending vertically between the upper and lower support/traverse sections and fixed thereto, and a probe scanning section mounted on the flexible rail so as to be able to move up and down and which grips any arbitrary tube between the aforementioned upper and lower tubes for making a probe scan around such tube.

Automatic tube circumference scanning apparatus

An automated ultrasonic examination system for heat transfer tubes in a boiler makes it possible to perform ultrsonic examination from inside of the heat transfer tubes without necessitating the removal of scale from the outer surfaces of the boiler tubes by polishing and without necessitating access to places where manual measurements are difficult or impossible to make. The system includes an insert tube adapted to be inserted into a cylindrical header to which one of the heat transfer tubes are connected, an insert tube moving device for moving the insert tube in the axial direction of the header and revolving it about its own axis, an ejection nozzle provided on the insert tube, a water pump for feeding pressurized water to the ejection nozzle, a cable adapted to be inserted from the ejection nozzle into the heat transfer tube as passed through the insert tube by the pressurized water fed from the water pump, a cable accommodation tank for accommodating the cable, a revolving submerged ultrasonic probe mounted at the tip end of the cable, and an ultrasonic examination unit for processing signals sent from the probe and displaying the results of examination. Preferably, a device for detecting a length of the cable inserted into the heat transfer tube is provided in the automated ultrasonic examination system.

Automated ultrasonic examination system for heat transfer tubes in a

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Tokyo, Japan

Kiyoshi Koizumi