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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
May. 10, 2013
Westinghouse Electric Company Llc, Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Lyman J. Petrosky, Latrobe, PA (US);
Kurt K. Lichtenfels, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Phillip J. Hawkins, Irwin, PA (US);
Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, Cranberry Township, PA (US);
Abstract
A delivery system for remotely driving an eddy current probe through the tubing of a heat exchanger. The system uses a flexible shaft and air pressure to move an inspection probe through the heat exchanger tubes. The flexible shaft initially drives the probe through a sealed conduit to deliver the probe to the tube end at which point a seal on the shaft near the probe head contacts the tube inner surface allowing a buildup of air pressure behind the seal, thus driving the probe through the tube.
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