Remote handling device
AssigneeSte d'Innovations Techniques (S.I.T.)
InventorAndre Garnier
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Abstract
A remote handling device includes a master arm and a slave arm adapted to reproduce the movements of the master arm. The slave arm is located within a confinement chamber. The master arm is located outside the confinement chamber. The master and slave arms are interconnected by a mechanism passing through a wall of the confinement chamber. The master arm is connected by a connection tube to the mechanism. The master arm and the connection tube are connected to coupling and uncoupling means adapted to permit their modular connection or disconnection.
Claims20
In a remote handling device comprising a master arm (16) and a slave arm (11) adapted to reproduce the movements of the master arm (16), said slave arm being located within a confinement chamber and being adapted to be uncoupled from the master arm, said master arm (16) being located outside the confinement chamber and said master and said slave arms (16, 11) being interconnected by a mechanism path (13) passing through a wall (P) of the confinement chamber, said master arm (16) being connected to a tube (17) for connection to said mechanism (13) passing through the wall (P) of the confinement chamber;
- the improvement in which the master arm (16) and the connection tube (17) are connected to a coupling and uncoupling means (15a, 15b) for Permitting modular coupling and uncoupling so as to facilitate maintenance of the remote handling device and to increase its productivity.
A remote handling device, comprising:
- a confinement chamber comprising a wall;
- a master arm (16) located outside the confinement chamber;
- a slave arm (11) located within the confinement chamber and coupled to the master arm by a traversing mechanism (13) passing through the wall of the confinement chamber,
- the slave arm being adapted to reproduce the movements of the master arm (16);
- a connection tube (17), located outside the confinement chamber, the connection tube connected to the traversing mechanism and to the master arm;
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- a coupling and uncoupling means (15a, 15b) for connecting the master arm (16) to the connection tube (17) and through the connection tube to the traversing mechanism (13),
- wherein the coupling and uncoupling means provides modular coupling and uncoupling of the master arm (16) from the connection tube (17).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.