Sondes for locating underground pipes and conduits
    2.
    发明授权
    Sondes for locating underground pipes and conduits 有权
    用于定位地下管道和管道的探头

    公开(公告)号:US07221136B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-05-22

    申请号:US10886856

    申请日:2004-07-08

    IPC分类号: G01R19/00 G01R33/00

    CPC分类号: G01V3/081

    摘要: A sonde includes an elongate flexible ferromagnetic core and a coil surrounds an intermediate segment of the core. A housing surrounds and supports the coil. An electronic drive circuit is mounted in the housing for supplying the coil with an electric signal that will induce the core to emit electromagnetic signals at a predetermined strength and frequency that can be remotely detected. Self-contained battery powered float-type and pill-type sondes are also disclosed.

    摘要翻译: 探测器包括细长的柔性铁磁芯和线圈围绕芯的中间段。 壳体围绕并支撑线圈。 电子驱动电路安装在壳体中,用于向线圈提供电信号,该电信号将引起磁芯以能够远程检测的预定强度和频率发射电磁信号。 还公开了独立电池供电的浮动型和药丸型探针。

    Sondes for locating underground pipes and conduits
    4.
    发明授权
    Sondes for locating underground pipes and conduits 有权
    用于定位地下管道和管道的探头

    公开(公告)号:US07863885B1

    公开(公告)日:2011-01-04

    申请号:US11864980

    申请日:2007-09-29

    IPC分类号: G01R19/00 G01R33/00

    CPC分类号: G01V3/081

    摘要: A sonde includes an elongate flexible ferromagnetic core and a coil surrounds an intermediate segment of the core. A housing surrounds and supports the coil. An electronic drive circuit is mounted in the housing for supplying the coil with an electric signal that will induce the core to emit electromagnetic signals at a predetermined strength and frequency that can be remotely detected. Self-contained battery powered float-type and pill-type sondes are also disclosed.

    摘要翻译: 探测器包括细长的柔性铁磁芯和线圈围绕芯的中间段。 壳体围绕并支撑线圈。 电子驱动电路安装在壳体中,用于向线圈提供电信号,该电信号将引起磁芯以能够远程检测的预定强度和频率发射电磁信号。 还公开了独立电池供电的浮动型和药丸型探针。

    Inductive clamp for applying signal to buried utilities
    5.
    发明授权
    Inductive clamp for applying signal to buried utilities 有权
    用于将信号施加到埋地设施的感应夹具

    公开(公告)号:US07288929B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-10-30

    申请号:US11184658

    申请日:2005-07-19

    IPC分类号: G01N3/02 G01R15/18

    CPC分类号: G01V3/081

    摘要: An inductive clamp includes a pair of jaws configured to surround a conductor, and a pair of handles, each connected to a corresponding jaw. A pivotal connection is provided that allows the jaws to close around a conductor. The jaws are optionally biased to hold them closed around the conductor. A ferromagnetic core is mounted in each jaw and a coil surrounds at least one of the cores. An indicator is provided that tells a user that a signal has been applied to at least one of the cores.

    摘要翻译: 感应夹具包括一对构造成围绕导体的夹爪和一对手柄,每个手柄连接到相应的钳口。 提供了一种枢转连接,其允许夹爪围绕导体闭合。 钳口可选地被偏置以将其保持围绕导体封闭。 铁磁芯安装在每个钳口中,并且线圈围绕至少一个芯。 提供了一种指示器,其告知用户信号已被应用于至少一个核心。

    Pipe inspection cable counter and overlay management system
    6.
    发明授权
    Pipe inspection cable counter and overlay management system 有权
    管道检查电缆计数器和覆盖管理系统

    公开(公告)号:US08970211B1

    公开(公告)日:2015-03-03

    申请号:US12766742

    申请日:2010-04-23

    IPC分类号: G01N27/72 G01D5/14 G01B7/02

    摘要: An apparatus is disclosed for magnetically sensing and computing and displaying cable distance, and computing and displaying other user-selectable information in a pipe inspection system. At least two permanent magnets are mounted in spaced apart fashion, on either a frame, or a rotatable member supported on the frame for rotation about an axis. A magnetic sensor is mounted on the other one of the rotatable member or frame on which the magnets are not mounted, so that either the magnets rotate around the magnetic sensor or the magnetic sensor rotates between the permanent magnets. The magnetic sensor generates signals representing changes in at least two axes in a composite magnetic field generated by the permanent magnets.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于磁感测和计算和显示电缆距离的装置,以及在管道检查系统中计算和显示其他用户可选择的信息。 至少两个永磁体以间隔的方式安装在框架上,或者支撑在框架上的可旋转构件用于围绕轴线旋转。 磁传感器安装在不安装磁体的可旋转构件或框架中的另一个上,使得磁体围绕磁传感器旋转或磁传感器在永磁体之间旋转。 磁传感器产生表示由永磁体产生的复合磁场中的至少两个轴的变化的信号。

    Bore hole camera with improved forward and side view illumination
    8.
    发明授权
    Bore hole camera with improved forward and side view illumination 有权
    孔眼相机具有改进的前视和侧视照明

    公开(公告)号:US06697102B1

    公开(公告)日:2004-02-24

    申请号:US09703331

    申请日:2000-10-31

    IPC分类号: H04N718

    CPC分类号: E21B47/0002 H04N7/183

    摘要: An elongate rugged cylindrical metal housing encloses rotatable forward looking and side looking video cameras for inspecting bore holes of water, oil and natural gas wells. A ring-shaped array of white LEDs is mounted on a PC board at the forward end of the housing. The ring-shaped array of LEDs surrounds, and is spaced rearward of a flat sapphire window through which the forward looking video camera views down the bore hole. The array of forward looking LEDs is encased behind a dome-shaped acrylic window which protects the forward looking LEDs from physical impacts and also functions as a light pipe. A side looking video camera is mounted in an inner tube rotatable by a motor drive within the outer housing about a longitudinal axis of the outer housing. The side field of view of the second video camera can be aligned with a predetermined circumferential region of a side wall of the bore hole for locating and inspecting defects in a well casing. A stationary cylindrical array of white LEDs is mounted in the exterior housing, surrounding the inner rotatable tube, slightly rearward of the second video camera. A light bending film with tiny Fresnel prisms is mounted just inside a cylindrical window of the housing and maximizes the amount of illumination that strikes the predetermined circumferential region. Switch mechanisms and circuitry are provided so that one or more sixty-degree circumferential segments of the cylindrical side facing array of LEDs which are adjacent the field of view of the side looking video camera are energized in order to minimize power consumption and heat dissipation. The forward and side illumination design minimizes the common illuminated volume and maximizes the resolution of the forward and side video images.

    摘要翻译: 细长的坚固的圆柱形金属外壳包围可旋转的前视和侧视摄像机,用于检查水,油和天然气井的钻孔。 白色LED的环形阵列安装在壳体前端的PC板上。 LED的环形阵列围绕着平坦的蓝宝石窗口向后方间隔开,前视摄像机通过该蓝宝石窗从窗孔向下观察。 前视LED的阵列被封装在圆顶形丙烯酸窗口之后,保护前视LED不受物理冲击,并且还起到光管的作用。 侧视摄像机安装在内管中,该内管可绕外壳内的马达驱动器绕外壳的纵向轴线旋转。 第二摄像机的侧视场可以与钻孔的侧壁的预定圆周区域对齐,用于定位和检查井套管中的缺陷。 白色LED的固定圆柱形阵列安装在外壳中,围绕第二摄像机稍微向后的内部可旋转管。 具有微小菲涅尔棱镜的光弯曲膜刚好安装在壳体的圆柱形窗口内,并使得撞击预定圆周区域的照明量最大化。 提供开关机构和电路,使得与侧视视频摄像机的视场相邻的圆柱形面向LED阵列的一个或多个六十度圆周段被激励,以便最小化功耗和散热。 正面和侧面照明设计最大限度地减少了常见的照明音量,并使前视图和侧视频图像的分辨率最大化。

    Single and multi-trace omnidirectional sonde and line locators and transmitter used therewith
    9.
    发明授权
    Single and multi-trace omnidirectional sonde and line locators and transmitter used therewith 有权
    单和多迹线全向探头和线定位器和发射机

    公开(公告)号:US07619516B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-11-17

    申请号:US11077947

    申请日:2005-03-11

    IPC分类号: G08B13/18

    摘要: At least one antenna array including three mutually orthogonal antennas each sharing a common center point senses an electromagnetic signal emitted by a buried object such as a utility line, pipe or sonde. A circuit at least partially mounted in a housing is connected to the array and determines a location of the buried object by measuring signal strength and field angles in three dimensions without having to align the antenna array relative to the buried object while eliminating nulls and false peaks. A graphical user interface (GUI) has user-friendly icons, symbols, menus, numbers and graphical and auditory representation of signal strength. A plurality of different underground objects can be simultaneously detected and their different locations can be simultaneously indicated to a user via audible sounds and/or visual images on a display.

    摘要翻译: 每个共享公共中心点的包括三个相互正交的天线的至少一个天线阵列感测由诸如公用事业线,管道或探测器的掩埋物体发射的电磁信号。 至少部分地安装在壳体中的电路连接到阵列并且通过在三维中测量信号强度和场角来确定掩埋物体的位置,而不必相对于掩埋物体对准天线阵列,同时消除零峰和假峰 。 图形用户界面(GUI)具有用户友好的图标,符号,菜单,数字以及信号强度的图形和听觉表示。 可以同时检测多个不同的地下物体,并且可以通过显示器上的可听见的声音和/或视觉图像同时向用户指示其不同的位置。

    DRAIN CLEANING APPARATUS WITH ELECTRONIC CABLE MONITORING SYSTEM
    10.
    发明申请
    DRAIN CLEANING APPARATUS WITH ELECTRONIC CABLE MONITORING SYSTEM 有权
    带电子电缆监控系统的排水清洁装置

    公开(公告)号:US20120203501A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-08-09

    申请号:US13447799

    申请日:2012-04-16

    IPC分类号: G06F15/00

    摘要: A drain cleaning machine with an electronic cable monitoring system is disclosed which comprises a frame supporting a rotatable drum which is driven by a motor through an endless belt. The drum contains a flexible drain cleaning cable which is rotatable with the drum and axially displaceable into and out from the drum, and the frame supports a cable feeding device through which the cable extends and by which the cable is displaced into and out of the drum. An electronic cable monitoring system is configured to assess an amount of cable payed out from and retracted into the drum. A process determines an amount and direction of relative movement between a rotatable drum and a cable follower member and generates a signal representative of an amount of cable payed out or retracted into the drum.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种具有电子线缆监测系统的排水清洗机,其包括支撑由马达通过环形带驱动的可旋转滚筒的框架。 滚筒包含柔性的排水清洁电缆,该电缆可与滚筒一起旋转并且可以从滚筒轴向移动和移出,并且框架支撑电缆馈送装置,电缆通过该电缆馈送装置延伸并通过该电缆进入和离开滚筒 。 电子电缆监测系统被配置为评估从滚筒中收回并退回到滚筒中的电缆量。 一个过程确定可旋转滚筒和缆线随动件之间的相对运动的量和方向,并且产生一个代表出出或退回滚筒的电缆量的信号。