Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Shinichi Murakawa

Kyoichi Yoshioka

Kiyoshi Tachibana

Tomio Aoyama

Yoshinori Takada

Masahiro Fujiwara

Jinichi Miyaguchi

Hiroshi Yatabe

A system for monitoring an operating condition of a control rod drive mechanism (CRDM) having a pressure housing erectly mounted on a reactor vessel head closure, a vertically movable control rod drive shaft accommodated in the housing and an electromagnetically motive latch mechanism includes an accelerometer fitted to a housing upper end and signal recording means for receiving output signals from the accelerometer through signal processing means and recording the processed output signals. A system for monitoring and analyzing an operating condition of an electromagnetically driven CRDM having a lifting electromagnetic coil, a stationary gripper electromagnetic coil and a movable gripper electromagnetic coil includes a detector, fitted to the CRDM, for detecting vibrations caused by operation of the drive mechanism, a buffer amplifier for receiving current, and detection and control signals, a pre-processing unit for digitalizing these signals, and a processing unit for analytically processing both the current and detection signals.

System for monitoring operating condition of a control rod drive

An improved position detecting apparatus for detecting the position of an underwater moving body loaded with an inspecting device is provided. The apparatus is such that it makes it possible to perform inspection of a structure in water quickly, reliably and with high precision. The improvements reside in that the apparatus comprises a light source and a corner cube mounted on the underwater moving body in combination to serve as a target, a follower device, which includes a visual sensor for catching light emitted from the light source, for automatically following the target, an underwater argon laser length measuring instrument for measuring a distance between a length measuring head integrated with the visual sensor and the corner cube, and a detector device for detecting the position of the underwater moving body on the basis of an azimuth angle of the target obtained by the follower device, a reference of one side of a triangle and the measured distance.

Position locating apparatus for an underwater moving body

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Takasago, Japan

Shinichi Murakawa