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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024

Filed:

May. 10, 2021
Applicant:

Westinghouse Electric Company Llc, Cranberry Township, PA (US);

Inventors:

James T. Polidora, North Huntingdon, PA (US);

Shawn D. Lazeski, Latrobe, PA (US);

Jeff H. Sleasman, Somerset, PA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 17/06 (2006.01); G01L 19/08 (2006.01); G21C 19/10 (2006.01); H04N 5/77 (2006.01); G21C 19/07 (2006.01); G21C 19/20 (2006.01); H04N 23/50 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21C 17/06 (2013.01); G01L 19/086 (2013.01); G21C 19/10 (2013.01); H04N 5/77 (2013.01); G21C 19/07 (2013.01); G21C 19/207 (2013.01); H04N 23/555 (2023.01);
Abstract

A fuel assembly inspection system that utilizes a pressure transducer mounted to a utility's spent fuel handling tool to detect a relative change in depth of a fuel assembly during fuel inspections. The system then wirelessly transmits the signal to a fuel inspection recording system, which converts the signal to a relative height along the fuel assembly being viewed by a camera, and displays the relative height along with the applicable fuel assembly feature being viewed by the camera (e.g., nozzle, grid, span) via a text overlay on the video image of the inspection.


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