Fuel bundle assembly machine
Description
An apparatus is described for placing elongate objects of substantially identical size and shape in a coordinate array in a support structure. The objects are parallel and mutually spaced from each other and each object occupies a designated coordinate position as determined by an identifying code carried by each object; the apparatus comprising: a queuing station for holding the plurality of objects; means for selectively removing the objects from the queuing station one at a time; means for reading the code on the removed objects; means responsive to each code read for positioning the corresponding object in horizontal and vertical alignment with the coordinate position; transport means for longitudinally moving each of the aligned objects into the two-dimensional coordinate position; and control means responsive to the presence of each object in a plurality of critical positions during its transfer between the queuing station and the coordinate position for timing and confirming the proper operation of the apparatus
Availability note (English)
U.S. Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D.C. 20231, USA, $.50.Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- vp.
- IPC:
- Int. Cl. B23P 21/00; B23Q 15/00; B23Q 17/00.
- IPC
- Int. Cl. B23P 21/00; B23Q 15/00; B23Q 17/00.
- Patent number
- US patent document 4,649,632/A/
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 18065739
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- ALIGNMENT; FUEL ELEMENT CLUSTERS; ON-LINE CONTROL SYSTEMS; POSITIONING; READOUT SYSTEMS; REMOTE HANDLING EQUIPMENT; SHAPE; SIZE; SPACE DEPENDENCE; SUPPORTS; TIMING CIRCUITS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; EQUIPMENT; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; ON-LINE SYSTEMS