Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fiber optic microseismic sensing systems
- Patent Title (中): 光纤微震感测系统
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Application No.: US13263850Application Date: 2010-10-22
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Publication No.: US09194738B2Publication Date: 2015-11-24
- Inventor: James Kengo Andersen , Eric Lee Goldner , Agop Hygasov Cherbettchian , Gerald Robert Baker , David T. Beatson
- Applicant: James Kengo Andersen , Eric Lee Goldner , Agop Hygasov Cherbettchian , Gerald Robert Baker , David T. Beatson
- Applicant Address: US CA Los Angeles
- Assignee: Pacific Western Bank
- Current Assignee: Pacific Western Bank
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Los Angeles
- Agency: Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2010/053763 WO 20101022
- International Announcement: WO2011/050275 WO 20110428
- Main IPC: G01B9/02
- IPC: G01B9/02 ; G01V1/18 ; G01D5/30 ; G01H9/00 ; G02B6/02 ; G01L1/24 ; G01D5/353 ; G01P15/093

Abstract:
A fiber optic microseismic sensing system is provided. The system includes a plurality of nodes, each of the nodes including a surface portion, an underground portion, and an optical cable extending between the surface portion and the underground portion. The surface portion includes (1) an optical source for transmitting an optical signal along the optical cable to the underground portion, and (2) an optical receiver for receiving a return optical signal propagating along the optical cable from the underground portion. The underground portion includes at least one transducer, each of the at least one transducer including (1) a fixed portion configured to be secured to a body of interest, (2) a moveable portion having a range of motion with respect to the fixed portion, (3) a spring positioned between the fixed portion and the moveable portion, and (4) a mass engaged with the moveable portion. The optical cable includes a length of fiber wound between the fixed portion and the moveable portion of each of the at least one transducer, the length of fiber spanning the spring. In one disclosed aspect of the transducer, the mass envelopes the moveable portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120257209A1 FIBER OPTIC MICROSEISMIC SENSING SYSTEMS Public/Granted day:2012-10-11
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