Patent · US Expired

Probe for the nondestructive testing of cylindrical cavities, especially of steam generator tubes

US4523470A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Thomas Müller · Langendorf, CH
Gunter Lehner · Erlangen, DE
Georg Gugel · Kalchreuth, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 28, 1983
Grant date	Jun 18, 1985
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 28, 2003

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02E30/30
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Probe for the nondestructive testing of cylindrical cavities, including a rotatable testing head, an outwardly cylindrical housing supporting the testing head, a motor disposed in the housing for driving the testing head, a shell body being surrounded by the housing and being in the form of a semi-cylindrical part with a relatively smaller diameter in vicinity of the motor, a tube sealing the shell body in vicinity of the motor, and means disposed on the shell body for securing the motor in a definite position.

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