Invention Grant
- Patent Title: In-pipe moving device
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Application No.: US16334713Application Date: 2017-09-19
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Publication No.: US11435021B2Publication Date: 2022-09-06
- Inventor: Shigeo Hirose
- Applicant: HiBot Corp.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: HiBot Corp.
- Current Assignee: HiBot Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Masuvalley & Partners
- Agent Peter R. Martinez
- Priority: JPJP2016-183946 20160921
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/033643 WO 20170919
- International Announcement: WO2018/056241 WO 20180329
- Main IPC: B61B13/10
- IPC: B61B13/10 ; F16L55/28 ; B62D57/02 ; B62D61/10 ; B62D55/065

Abstract:
An in-pipe moving apparatus that can freely and smoothly move in a pipe having a bent portion and a branching portion, is not stuck in the pipe even if a drive motor of a movement mechanism fails or otherwise experiences a problem, and can be readily taken out of the pipe. The in-pipe moving apparatus includes two sets of wheel-based traveling elements (2A) and (2B), which each have two driving wheels (8A) and (8B) linearly arranged, and a variable bag, which is expanded and contracted in accordance with the pressure of a fluid supplied to the variable bag, and the two sets of wheel-based traveling elements (2A) and (2B) are so disposed as to sandwich the variable bag (3) and are fixed to the outer surface of the variable bag (3).
Public/Granted literature
- US20190264856A1 In-Pipe Moving Device Public/Granted day:2019-08-29
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