公开(公告)号：US20190286146A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-19

申请号：US16434619

申请日：2019-06-07

申请人： ABB Schweiz AG

发明人： Gregory A. Cole ,  William J. Eakins ,  Daniel T. Lasko ,  Harshang Shah ,  Thomas A. Fuhlbrigge ,  Carlos F. Morato ,  Biao Zhang ,  Luiz Chelm ,  Poorvi Patel ,  Gregory F. Rossano ,  Andrew Salm

IPC分类号： G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B63G8/00 ,  B63G8/08 ,  H04N5/247 ,  H04N5/272 ,  H04N7/08 ,  H04N5/38 ,  H04N5/268

摘要： A submersible inspection drone used for inspection of liquid cooled electrical transformers can include a number of separate cameras for imaging the internal structure of the transformer. The submersible can be configured to communicate to a base station using a wireless transmitter and receiver. The cameras on the submersible can be fixed in place and can be either static or motion picture cameras. The submersible can include an input/output selector capable of switching between the camera images, either through commanded action of a user or through computer based switching. In one form the input/output selector is a multiplexer. The base station can be configured to display images from the cameras one at a time, or can include a number of separate viewing portals in which real time images are displayed. The base station can include a demultiplexer synchronized to the multiplexer of the submersible.