FUEL ELEMENT METERING DEVICE Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: nuclear power engineering. SUBSTANCE: device used for automatic metering of active layer coordinates, marking of fuel element boundaries, measurements made for uniform distribution of active material over entire surface area of layer in the course of manufacture has measuring, recording, and data processing system, scanning and marking control system, positioning unit, industrial robot, additional marker, two fuel element revolving mechanisms, adjusting unit, fuel element linear displacement transducer, limit sensors of fuel element and marker turning and displacement; measuring, recording, and data processing system has X-ray apparatus and series-connected analog-to-digital transducer and personal computer; scanning and marking control system has matching unit electrically connected with positioning unit sensors and electric drives, industrial robot, and concurrent exchange unit built in personal computer. EFFECT: improved precision and capacity. 2 cl, 1 dwg