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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 1985
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shinichi Murakami, Osaka, JP;
Takao Mihara, Matsubara, JP;
Assignee:
Kubota, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G01N / ; G01D / ; G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324220 ; 73623 ; 346 / ; 352131 ;
Abstract
A mobile truck 10 furnished with power source and travel drive mechanism is set in a cargo oil pipe 48 to run inside to inspect and monitor the state of the inner surface of a pipe wall by means of its built-in magnetic flaw-detecting instrument 12 and video camera 14, so that the image signals taken by the video camera 14 may be reproduced and inspected on a television receiver 30 in the monitoring stations located aboard the vessel while the inspection data signals from the magnetic flaw-detecting instrument 12 may be recorded in a recorder 20 at the same time.