Abstract:
A detector indicating ice formation on the wing of an aircraft or any planear surface, based on a thread-like or a tape-like transducer, through which a supersonic signal is transmitted at one end. The attenuation of the signal having passed through the thread is measured with a receiver at the opposite end while the thread is simultaneously being heated such that ice that may surround it melts again, the attenuation thus resuming its initial level.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a measurement device (10) for measurement of the tensile stress in an optical fiber (11) or an equivalent wire. The measurement device (10) is provided with a device (12) for producing a vibration surge (150) in the optical fiber (11), which vibration surge vibrates at a certain, pre-selected frequency and which advances as a linearly polarized wire wave (15), and with an optical location-sensitive indicator (16) for measuring the advancing speed (v) of the wire wave (15). The measurement device (10) is provided with an illuminator device (17) for illuminating the optical fiber (11) so that a shadow or an image of the vibrating fiber is cast onto the indicator (16), whereby the tensile stress (T) of the optical fiber (11) can be calculated from the equation T = v . M when the fiber mass (M) per unit of length is known. The indicator device (16) in the measurement device (10) is fitted to measure the by-pass time of the departing wire wave surge (15) and the by-pass time of the wire wave surge (19) reflected from the coating vat (18), in which connection the speed of the wire wave is obtained by measuring the difference in time between the departing vibration and the arriving vibration when the distance (X) between the indicator device (16) and the coating vat (18) is known.
Abstract:
A thermometer or temperature alarm device making use of fibre optics. The measuring instrument consists of a fibre-optic light transmitter (1), which sends out light along an optic fibre (2) to a measuring head (5) on the end of the transmitting fibre (2), and a fibre-optic receiver (3), which is connected with an optic fibre (4) to the same measuring head (5). The measuring head (5) consists of a cell or hollow enclosure (6) which has been filled with a light-scattering substance (7) of the kind which below a certain threshold temperature scatters the incident light from the transmitting fibre (2) back to the receiving fibre (4) but above the threshold temperature characteristic for the substance (7) loses its light scattering capacity or changes to be transparant so that the light coming from the transmitting fibre (2) is no longer scattered to the receiving fibre (4). Transgression of the threshold temperature characteristic for the substance (7) is observable in the fibre-optic receiver (3) as a diminishing of the back-scattered light and of the signal thereby caused.