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公开(公告)号:US20140285203A1
公开(公告)日:2014-09-25
申请号:US14214051
申请日:2014-03-14
摘要: A ground tracking system including a ground follower assembly for use with a locator or other device for determining position, motion, and/or orientation information is disclosed. The ground follower assembly may include a wheel assembly coupled to a locator and configured to swivel and/or pivot relative to an antenna node of the locator to generate signals for use in determining position information during a locate operation, such as from a sonde array.
摘要翻译: 公开了一种地面跟踪系统,其包括用于定位器或其他用于确定位置,运动和/或取向信息的装置的接地跟随器组件。 接地跟随器组件可以包括耦合到定位器并被配置为相对于定位器的天线节点旋转和/或枢转的轮组件,以产生用于在诸如从探空仪阵列的定位操作期间确定位置信息的信号。
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公开(公告)号:US20140111208A1
公开(公告)日:2014-04-24
申请号:US13841879
申请日:2013-03-15
IPC分类号: G01V3/12
摘要: A ground tracking system including a ground follower assembly for use with a locator or other device for determining position, motion, and/or orientation information is disclosed. The ground follower assembly may include a wheel assembly coupled to a locator and configured to swivel and/or pivot relative to an antenna node of the locator to generate signals for use in determining position information during a locate operation, such as from a sonde array.
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公开(公告)号:US08400154B1
公开(公告)日:2013-03-19
申请号:US12367254
申请日:2009-02-06
IPC分类号: G01V3/08
CPC分类号: G01V15/00
摘要: An antenna useful in an antenna array of a man-portable buried utility locator includes a flexible bobbin made of copper foil. The bobbin has a plurality of axially spaced grooves and an axially extending gap formed therein. A layer of insulation surrounds an outer surface of the bobbin. A conductive wire is disposed in the grooves and wound around the bobbin over the layer of insulation to form a plurality of axially spaced sub-coils. A layer of copper-foil tape having an insulating backing is wound about the conductive wire and has a second gap aligned with the gap in the bobbin. A layer of a low dielectric material is wound about the copper-foil tape. The antenna provides more antenna wire surface for an equivalent coil cross-sectional area, compared to prior art antennas, thus yielding greater sensitivity. The construction of the antenna provides a series of Faraday-shielded sub-coils, which yield a greater useful antenna bandwidth by moving the inherent resonance of each coil to a higher frequency. The construction of the antenna also reduces inherent winding capacitance and provides a self-shielding effect that further improves sensitivity.
摘要翻译: 用于便携式埋地式实用定位器的天线阵列中的天线包括由铜箔制成的柔性线轴。 线轴具有多个轴向隔开的槽和在其中形成的轴向延伸间隙。 绝缘层围绕线轴的外表面。 导线布置在沟槽中并围绕线轴缠绕在绝缘层上以形成多个轴向隔开的子线圈。 具有绝缘背衬的一层铜箔带卷绕在导线上,并且具有与线轴中的间隙对准的第二间隙。 一层低介电材料缠绕在铜箔带上。 与现有技术的天线相比,天线为等效线圈横截面积提供更多的天线导线表面,从而产生更高的灵敏度。 天线的结构提供了一系列法拉第屏蔽子线圈,通过将每个线圈的固有谐振移动到更高的频率,产生更大的有用的天线带宽。 天线的结构也降低固有的绕组电容,并提供进一步提高灵敏度的自屏蔽效果。
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公开(公告)号:US20120062223A1
公开(公告)日:2012-03-15
申请号:US13041320
申请日:2011-03-04
申请人: Mark S. Olsson , Ray Merewether
发明人: Mark S. Olsson , Ray Merewether
IPC分类号: G01R33/02
摘要: Magnetic locators for detection of buried objects, such as ferromagnetic objects, are disclosed. Inputs provided from one or more magnetic sensors, such as three three-axis magnetic sensors, as well as from other sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopic sensors, may be used to determine magnetic field distortion indicative of ferromagnetic objects and provide output information corresponding to the detected object.
摘要翻译: 公开了用于检测诸如铁磁性物体的掩埋物体的磁定位器。 可以使用从一个或多个磁传感器(例如三个三轴磁传感器)以及其他传感器(例如加速度计和陀螺仪传感器)提供的输入来确定指示铁磁物体的磁场失真并提供对应于 检测到的对象。
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公开(公告)号:US10401017B2
公开(公告)日:2019-09-03
申请号:US15353700
申请日:2016-11-16
IPC分类号: F21V3/06 , F21V9/30 , F21V15/00 , F21V15/01 , F21V19/00 , F21V23/00 , F21V29/85 , F21V31/00 , F21Y115/10
摘要: Lighting devices using selectively permeable barrier elements, graphite sheet materials, and/or browning agent destroyers/sequestering agents are disclosed. In one embodiment a lighting device may include a body or housing with a selectively permeable barrier element, such as a silicone membrane or o-ring to allow diffusion of contaminants from one or more interior volumes to the exterior environment. Contaminants may be mitigated through use of a sequestering agent/browning agent destroyer. Heat conduction between elements of the housing, such as to aid removal of heat generated from a lighting element such as an LED, may be improved through use of graphite materials, such as PGS sheets between housing elements.
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公开(公告)号:US10078149B2
公开(公告)日:2018-09-18
申请号:US14949868
申请日:2015-11-23
摘要: Systems for locating hidden utilities including a portable locator with a dodecahedral antenna node are disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US09798033B2
公开(公告)日:2017-10-24
申请号:US14215290
申请日:2014-03-17
申请人: Mark S. Olsson , Jan Soukup , Ray Merewether , Justin W. Taylor
发明人: Mark S. Olsson , Jan Soukup , Ray Merewether , Justin W. Taylor
摘要: Sonde devices for providing magnetic field signals for use with utility locators or other devices are disclosed. In one embodiment a sonde device includes a housing, a core comprising a plurality of core sections, and one or more support structures, which may include windings. Circuit and/or power supply elements may be disposed fully or partially within the core to control generation of predefined magnetic field frequencies and waveforms.
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公开(公告)号:US20170160420A1
公开(公告)日:2017-06-08
申请号:US15360979
申请日:2016-11-23
申请人: Mark S. Olsson , Ray Merewether , Stephanie M. Bench , Sequoyah Aldridge , Paul Wisecaver , Austin Rutledge
发明人: Mark S. Olsson , Ray Merewether , Stephanie M. Bench , Sequoyah Aldridge , Paul Wisecaver , Austin Rutledge
摘要: Systems, devices, and methods for locating buried conductors using ambient electromagnetic signals, such as AM or other broadcast signals, are described. A buried utility locator may include a plurality of spatially separated antenna arrays, a receiver circuit coupled thereto, and a processing element programmed to process measurements of ambient electromagnetic signals and associated electromagnetic signals radiated from current induced in the buried conductor from the ambient signals to determine information about the buried conductor.
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公开(公告)号:US09506628B1
公开(公告)日:2016-11-29
申请号:US13482969
申请日:2012-05-29
CPC分类号: F21V31/005 , F21V3/06 , F21V9/30 , F21V15/00 , F21V15/01 , F21V19/005 , F21V23/001 , F21V29/85 , F21Y2115/10
摘要: Lighting devices using selectively permeable barrier elements, graphite sheet materials, and/or browning agent destroyers/sequestering agents are disclosed. In one embodiment a lighting device may include a body or housing with a selectively permeable barrier element, such as a silicone membrane or o-ring to allow diffusion of contaminants from one or more interior volumes to the exterior environment. Contaminants may be mitigated through use of a sequestering agent/browning agent destroyer. Heat conduction between elements of the housing, such as to aid removal of heat generated from a lighting element such as an LED, may be improved through use of graphite materials, such as PGS sheets between housing elements.
摘要翻译: 公开了使用选择性渗透屏障元件,石墨片材料和/或褐变剂驱逐剂/螯合剂的照明装置。 在一个实施例中,照明装置可以包括具有选择性可渗透屏障元件(例如硅树脂膜或O形环)的主体或壳体,以允许污染物从一个或多个内部体积扩散到外部环境。 污染物可以通过使用螯合剂/褐变剂驱逐剂来减轻。 可以通过使用诸如在壳体元件之间的PGS片材的石墨材料来改善壳体的元件之间的热传导,例如有助于从诸如LED的照明元件产生的热量的去除。
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公开(公告)号:US09411067B2
公开(公告)日:2016-08-09
申请号:US13841879
申请日:2013-03-15
摘要: A ground tracking system including a ground follower assembly for use with a locator or other device for determining position, motion, and/or orientation information is disclosed. The ground follower assembly may include a wheel assembly coupled to a locator and configured to swivel and/or pivot relative to an antenna node of the locator to generate signals for use in determining position information during a locate operation, such as from a sonde array.
摘要翻译: 公开了一种地面跟踪系统,其包括用于定位器或其他用于确定位置,运动和/或取向信息的装置的接地跟随器组件。 接地跟随器组件可以包括耦合到定位器并被配置为相对于定位器的天线节点旋转和/或枢转的轮组件,以产生用于在诸如从探空仪阵列的定位操作期间确定位置信息的信号。
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