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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2014
Applicant:
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River, CA;
Inventors:
Stuart Thomas Craig, Deep River, CA;
Kenneth Robert Chaplin, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 21/14 (2006.01); G21C 17/00 (2006.01); G21C 17/06 (2006.01); G21D 3/00 (2006.01); G21C 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 21/14 (2013.01); G21C 17/00 (2013.01); G21C 17/06 (2013.01); G21D 3/001 (2013.01); G21C 1/20 (2013.01); Y02E 30/40 (2013.01);
Abstract
While typically-collected diameter data contains information for detecting some garter springs, many garter springs may not be detected without processing the diameter data. Responsively, a method for processing the diameter data to detect the garter springs has been developed. In particular, the processing involves fitting of the diameter data to a shape, determining residual errors and using the residual errors to locate garter springs.