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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 1980
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert Saglio, Antony, FR;
Assignee:
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
367 95 ;
Abstract
An ultrasonic centering apparatus, wherein it comprises at least one ultrasonic transducer placed within an enclosure, said transducer transmitting at least one ultrasonic wave, means for collecting the different ultrasonic echos from the walls of said enclosure, means for measuring the time gap separating the reception of the different echos and means for displacing the transducer or transducers until the different echos are received at the same time by said echo receiving means. A particular application of the invention is to the centering of inspection equipment in the tubes of nuclear reactor vessels.