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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2010
Ki-jun Kwon, Daejeon, KR;
Se-yong Shin, Daejeon, KR;
Sang-pil Kong, Daejeon, KR;
Hung-soon Chang, Daejeon, KR;
Jeong-ho Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Tae-hyung NA, Daejeon, KR;
Ki-jun Kwon, Daejeon, KR;
Se-yong Shin, Daejeon, KR;
Sang-pil Kong, Daejeon, KR;
Hung-soon Chang, Daejeon, KR;
Jeong-ho Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Tae-hyung Na, Daejeon, KR;
Korea Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd., Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed therein are an apparatus for and a method of automatically welding a flange to a guide thimble tube in a nuclear fuel assembly. The automatic welding apparatus includes: a welding part located on an axially conveying line of a tube for welding a welded surface of the tube inserted thereinto and a welded surface of a flange; a flange supplying part for supplying the flange at a tube inlet of the welding part onto the axially conveying line; and a conveying part mounted on the axially conveying line in such a way as to move the tube and the flange on the axially conveying line, so that they are inserted into and drawn from the welding part.