Pipe inspection system
AssigneeSMC Corporation
InventorHiroyuki Okuhira
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Abstract
A pipe inspection system which tests for compressed air leaks in a section to be inspected in a pipe has a first branch pipe and a second branch pipe. The first branch pipe branches from the pipe upstream of the section to be inspected, and joins the pipe, upstream of the section to be inspected. The second branch pipe branches from the pipe downstream of the section to be inspected. The first branch pipe has a fluorescent solvent supply unit provided therein that supplies a fluorescent solvent to the section to be inspected. The second branch pipe has a fluorescent solvent recovery unit provided therein that recovers fluorescent solvent from the section to be inspected.
Claims6
A pipe inspection system arranged upstream from a pneumatic equipment in a direction in which compressed air flows in order to inspect whether there is a compressed air leakage location at an inspection target portion of a pipe that supplies the compressed air to the pneumatic equipment, the pipe inspection system comprising:
- a first branch pipe that branches from the pipe at a location of the pipe downstream from a compressed air supply source configured to supply the compressed air and upstream from the inspection target portion and merges into the pipe;
- a fluorescent solvent supply portion that is provided for the first branch pipe and supplies a fluorescent solvent to the inspection target portion;
- a second branch pipe that branches from the pipe at a location downstream from the inspection target portion;
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- a fluorescent solvent collection portion that is provided for the second branch pipe and collects the fluorescent solvent from the inspection target portion,
- wherein the second branch pipe and the fluorescent solvent collection portion are arranged upstream from the pneumatic equipment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.