发明名称 |
Flexible linkage camera system and method for visual inspection of off line industrial gas turbines and other power generation machinery |
摘要 |
Internal components of power generation machinery, including for example gas or steam industrial turbines as well as generators, are inspected a camera inspection system that is inserted and positioned within the machinery by an elongated cable carrier that has restricted cable flexure along a two-dimensional carrier cable flexure motion plane. A camera head that retains the camera is coupled to a distal end of the cable carrier. Embodiments also include a connector block coupled between the cable carrier distal end and the camera head. The connector block has a pivot axis coupled to the camera head for swinging the camera head along a camera head range of motion path that intersects the cable carrier flexure motion plane. Embodiments include a camera head swing motion drive system for selectively positioning the camera head along the camera head range of motion path. |
申请公布号 |
US9294737(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2016.03.22 |
申请号 |
US201313972322 |
申请日期 |
2013.08.21 |
申请人 |
Siemens Energy, Inc. |
发明人 |
Hatcher, Jr. Clifford;Hatley Richard |
分类号 |
H04N7/18;G02B23/24;B25J9/06 |
主分类号 |
H04N7/18 |
代理机构 |
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代理人 |
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主权项 |
1. A system for internal inspection of power generation machinery, comprising:
an elongated cable carrier, capable of being maneuvered into internal areas of interest within power generation machinery from access points outside the machinery, the cable carrier formed from a series of chain links that are pivotally coupled to each other end-to-end along a series of parallel pivot axes, which parallel axes constrain carrier cable flexure along a commonly defined carrier cable flexure motion plane, each respective link defining a pair of the of the series of commonly aligned pivot axes along a link centerline at opposite ends thereof, with adjoining coupled chain links restricted to bi-directional pivotal motion relative to each link's respective link centerline along the carrier cable flexure motion plane; a camera head coupled to a distal end of the cable carrier; and a camera, having a field of view, which is capable of remote image capture, coupled to the camera head. |
地址 |
Orlando FL US |