TUBULAR BODY INNER SURFACE INSPECTING DEVICE AND TUBULAR BODY INNER SURFACE INSPECTING METHOD

• Main Authors: AKAGI, Toshio, YAMAJI, Hironao, YAMANO, Masaki, NAKATA, Takeo
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 03.01.2024
• Subjects: INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS; MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEARDIMENSIONS; PHYSICS; TESTING

There is provided a tubular body inner surface inspection apparatus that detects a defect existing on an inner surface of a tubular body, the apparatus including: a tubular body imaging apparatus including N (N ≥ 2) imaging units each including a laser light source that applies laser light, an optical element that reflects laser light applied from the laser light source in a circumferential direction of the inner surface of the tubular body, as annular laser light, an area camera that images a region of the inner surface of the tubular body where the annular laser light is applied, and thereby generates an annular beam image, and a linking member that links together and fixes the laser light source and the area camera, in which the imaging units are linked in series along a tube axial direction of the tubular body in such a manner that positions of the linking members in a plane orthogonal to a tube axis are different from each other; a movement apparatus that moves the tubular body imaging apparatus along the tube axial direction of the tubular body; and an arithmetic processing apparatus that, while moving the tubular body imaging apparatus by means of the movement apparatus, performs image processing on a plurality of annular beam images generated in each of the imaging units and assesses whether a defect exists on the inner surface of the tubular body or not.