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US 12,308,131 B2Granted
Nuclear dismantling apparatus and method
AssigneeAts Corporation
InventorsDavid Taro Morikawa, Mark Johannesson
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Abstract
A nuclear dismantling system for dismantling equipment contaminated with radioactive contamination, including a dismantling apparatus to be operated remotely while in a nuclear facility and a control system communicatively coupled to the dismantling apparatus to control the dismantling apparatus remotely.
Claims17
A nuclear dismantling system for dismantling equipment contaminated with radioactive contamination, comprising:
- a dismantling apparatus to be operated remotely while in a nuclear facility, including:
- a frame having a frame longitudinal axis,
- an elongated first arm mounted to the frame, the elongated first arm extending along a first arm longitudinal axis and having a first arm forward end to reach a workpiece,
- a first gripper mounted to the first arm to grip a workpiece, and
- a first cutter mounted to the first arm to cut the workpiece free from an environmental feature, and
- wherein the elongated first arm is moveable between a retracted position to facilitate movement of the dismantling apparatus and an extended position having the first arm forward end extending an extended distance from the frame to reach the workpiece, and
- wherein when the elongated first arm is in the extended position the gripper is operable to grab a workpiece adjacent the first arm forward end and the cutter is operable to cut the workpiece adjacent the gripper;
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- a control system communicatively coupled to the dismantling apparatus to control the dismantling apparatus remotely.
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A nuclear dismantling apparatus to be controlled remotely by a communicatively coupled haptic control system, comprising:
- a frame having a frame longitudinal axis;
- an elongated first arm mounted to the frame, the elongated first arm extending along a first arm longitudinal axis and having a first arm forward end to reach a workpiece;
- a first gripper mounted to the first arm to grip a tubular workpiece from a radial side of the tubular workpiece;
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- a first cutter mounted to the first arm to cut the tubular workpiece free from an environmental feature while the first gripper holds the tubular workpiece from the side of the tubular workpiece, and
- wherein the elongated first arm is configured to move between a retracted position to facilitate movement of the dismantling apparatus and an extended position having the first arm forward end extending an extended distance from the frame to reach the workpiece, and
- wherein when the elongated first arm is in the extended position the gripper is operable to grab the tubular workpiece adjacent the first arm forward end and the cutter is operable to cut the workpiece adjacent the gripper.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.