Inner diameter measuring device

• US 9,518,817 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2013
• Issued: 12/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IHI Corporation
• Original Assignee: IHI Corporation
• Inventors: Baba, Michiko, Hasegawa, Kouzou, Taga, Norimasa
• Primary Examiner(s): Chowdhury, Tarifur
• Assistant Examiner(s): Akanbi, Isiaka
• Application Number:
  US14/377,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20150015695A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,405 Days
• Field of Search: 356/156, 356/630, 356/626, 356/635
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 11/12 internal diameters
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 21/14 internal diameters of boreholes or wells E21B47/08
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 5/12 internal diameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/555 for picking-up images in sites, inaccessible due to their dimensions or hazardous conditions, e.g. endoscopes or borescopes

Abstract

An inner diameter measuring device comprises an object to be measured supporting carriage, being arranged movably along a rail installed on an upper surface of a bed and used for holding a hollow pipe to be measured, a supporting shaft extended from a base end to a forward end of the bed, being insertable into the pipe to be measured and being cantilever-supported, and an inner diameter measuring unit installed on a forward end of the supporting shaft, being insertable into the pipe to be measured and for measuring the inner surface of the pipe to be measured. The inner diameter measuring unit is adapted to be inserted into the pipe to be measured, and is adapted to measure an inner diameter of the pipe to be measured in a process where the object to be measured supporting carriage is moved toward the base end of the supporting shaft.

Claims

1. An inner diameter measuring device, comprising an object to be measured supporting carriage, being arranged movably along a rail installed on an upper surface of a bed and used for holding a hollow pipe to be measured, a supporting shaft extended from a base end to a forward end of said bed, being insertable into said pipe to be measured and being cantilever-supported, and an inner diameter measuring unit installed on a forward end of said supporting shaft, being insertable into said pipe to be measured and for measuring the inner surface of said pipe to be measured under inserted condition, wherein said pipe to be measured and said inner diameter measuring unit are installed along a same reference line, said object to be measured supporting carriage is movable from a condition where said inner diameter measuring unit is withdrawn from said pipe to be measured to a condition where said inner measuring unit reaches a base part of said pipe to be measured, said inner diameter measuring unit is adapted to be inserted into said pipe to be measured, and is adapted to measure an inner diameter of said pipe to be measured in a process where said object to be measured supporting carriage is moved toward the base end of said supporting shaft.

2. An inner diameter measuring device according to claim 1, wherein a first reference jig unit is installed on a forward end of said object to be measured supporting carriage, a second reference jig unit is installed on a base end of said object to be measured supporting carriage, wherein said first reference jig unit and said second reference jig unit are installed concentrically with said reference line and have reference rings respectively, each of reference rings has an inner diameter and an outer diameter, and at least inner diameter is already known, wherein the inner diameter of said reference ring is measured by said inner diameter measuring unit, and the measurement result of said pipe to be measured is corrected based on the measurement result of said reference ring.

3. An inner diameter measuring device according to claim 2, wherein said object to be measured supporting carriage has a forward end slider, a base end slider, a connecting member with adjustable length for connecting said forward end slider and said base end slider, and pipe holding units installed on said forward end slider and said base end slider respectively, wherein said pipe to be measured is placed on said pipe holding units where a distance is set according to a length of said pipe to be measured.

4. An inner diameter measuring device according to claim 3, wherein said pipe holding unit comprises a pair of rollers where said pipe to be measured is placed, and a mechanism for adjusting position of said pipe to be measured in horizontal and vertical directions via said roller.

5. An inner diameter measuring device according to claim 1, wherein said object to be measured supporting carriage has a forward end slider, a base end slider, a connecting member with adjustable length for connecting said forward end slider and said base end slider, and pipe holding units installed on said forward end slider and said base end slider respectively, wherein said pipe to be measured is placed on said pipe holding units where a distance is set according to a length of said pipe to be measured.

6. An inner diameter measuring device according to claim 5, wherein said pipe holding unit comprises a pair of rollers where said pipe to be measured is placed, and a mechanism for adjusting position of said pipe to be measured in horizontal and vertical directions via said roller.

7. An inner diameter measuring device according to claim 1, wherein a laser emitter is installed at one end of said bed, and said reference line is formed by a laser beam emitted by said laser emitter.

8. An inner diameter measuring device according to claim 1, further comprising a centering laser device provided so as to stride over said bed at a required position of said bed, wherein said centering laser device has a horizontal laser distance measuring unit for measuring a distance in horizontal direction and a vertical laser distance measuring unit for measuring a distance in vertical direction, said horizontal laser distance measuring unit and said vertical laser distance measuring unit are set up so that a distance measuring light optical axis of said horizontal laser distance measuring unit and a distance measuring light optical axis of said vertical laser distance measuring unit cross on said reference line, and said pipe to be measured has at least two outer diameter reference surfaces separated from each other in axial direction, said pipe to be measured is moved by said object to be measured supporting carriage, said outer diameter reference surface is measured by said horizontal laser distance measuring unit and said vertical laser distance measuring unit, and a centering of said pipe to be measured is performed based on the measurement result.

9. An inner diameter measuring device according to claim 1, wherein said supporting shaft is cantilever-supported by a supporting mechanism unit, said supporting mechanism unit tiltably supports said supporting shaft, and a supporting end of said supporting shaft is tilted so that a center line of said inner diameter measuring unit coincides with said reference line.

10. An inner diameter measuring device according to claim 9, wherein said inner diameter measuring unit is a contact type inner diameter measuring instrument, and comprises a rotating base being rotatable around the center line of the inner diameter measuring unit as the center, a measuring instrument holder provided movably in radial direction on said rotating base, and an electric micrometer being held on said measuring instrument holder.

11. An inner diameter measuring device according to claim 9, wherein said inner diameter measuring unit is a non-contact type inner diameter measuring instrument and comprises a CCD camera, a laser projector and a cone mirror, wherein said CCD camera, said laser projector and said cone mirror are installed on the center line of said inner diameter measuring unit, wherein a laser beam projected from said laser projector is reflected over total circumference by said cone mirror and said CCD camera takes image of an optical ring formed when the laser beam is projected on inner surface of said pipe to be measured.

12. An inner diameter measuring device according to claim 9, wherein said inner diameter measuring unit is configured by integrating a contact type inner diameter measuring instrument comprising a rotating base being rotatable around a center line of the inner diameter measuring unit as the center, a measuring instrument holder provided movably in radial direction on said rotating base and an electric micrometer being held on said measuring instrument holder with a non-contact type inner diameter measuring unit comprising a CCD camera, a laser projector and a cone mirror, wherein said CCD camera, said laser projector and said cone mirror are provided on a center line of said inner diameter measuring unit, wherein a laser beam projected from said laser projector is reflected over total circumference by said cone mirror and said CCD camera takes image of an optical ring formed when the laser beam is projected on inner surface of said pipe to be measured.

13. An inner diameter measuring device according to claim 1, wherein said inner diameter measuring unit is a contact type inner diameter measuring instrument, and comprises a rotating base being rotatable around a center line of the inner diameter measuring unit as the center, a measuring instrument holder provided movably in radial direction on said rotating base and an electric micrometer being held on said measuring instrument holder.

14. An inner diameter measuring device according to claim 1, wherein said inner diameter measuring unit is a non-contact type inner diameter measuring instrument and comprises a CCD camera, a laser projector and a cone mirror, wherein said CCD camera, said laser projector and said cone mirror are provided on a center line of said inner diameter measuring unit, wherein a laser beam projected from said laser projector is reflected over total circumference by said cone mirror and said CCD camera takes image of an optical ring formed when the laser beam is projected on inner surface of said pipe to be measured.

15. An inner diameter measuring device according to claim 1, wherein said inner diameter measuring unit is configured by integrating a contact type inner diameter measuring instrument comprising a rotating base being rotatable around a center line of the inner diameter measuring unit as the center, a measuring instrument holder provided movably in radial direction on said rotating base and an electric micrometer being held on said measuring instrument holder with a non-contact type inner diameter measuring unit comprising a CCD camera, a laser projector and a cone mirror, wherein said CCD camera, said laser projector and said cone mirror are provided on a center line of said inner diameter measuring unit, wherein a laser beam projected from said laser projector is reflected over total circumference by said cone mirror and said CCD camera takes image of an optical ring formed when the laser beam is projected on inner surface of said pipe to be measured.