Monitoring a pipe plug
AssigneeAstoria Solutions Pte Ltd.
InventorsShivakumar N. Chintadripet, Dominic Loke, Kannan Kamatchi
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Abstract
A plug monitoring device configured to monitor a plug to be received by an aperture of a pipe is provided. The plug monitoring device may include: a sensor having an output, wherein the sensor is configured to produce at the output a first signal when a plug is tightly installed in the aperture and a second signal at the output when the plug is not tightly installed in the aperture; and circuitry, comprising a transmitter, coupled to the output of the sensor, wherein the circuitry is configured to transmit a signal comprising status information selectively based on a signal at the output of the sensor.
Claims26
A plug monitoring device configured to monitor a plug to be received by an aperture of a pipe, the plug monitoring device comprising:
- a sensor having an output, wherein the sensor is configured to produce at the output a first signal when the plug is tightly installed in the aperture and a second signal at the output when the plug is not tightly installed in the aperture, wherein the sensor is further configured to detect a separation between the plug and the aperture along a direction of insertion of the plug into the aperture;
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- circuitry, comprising:
- a transmitter, coupled to the output of the sensor, wherein the circuitry is configured to transmit a signal comprising status information selectively based on a signal at the output of the sensor;
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- a computer memory;
- wherein detecting the separation between the plug and the aperture comprises comparing the signal at the output of the sensor to at least one threshold value stored in the computer memory.
A monitoring device configured to monitor a nonstationary object to be received in an aperture of a stationary object, the monitoring device comprising
- a sensor having an output, wherein the sensor is configured to produce at the output a first signal when the nonstationary object is disposed within the aperture of the stationary object and a second signal at the output when the nonstationary object is not disposed within the aperture of the stationary object, wherein the sensor is further configured to detect a separation between the nonstationary object and the aperture along a direction of insertion of the nonstationary object into the aperture;
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- circuitry, comprising:
- a transmitter, coupled to the output of the sensor, wherein the circuitry is configured to transmit a signal comprising status information selectively based on a signal at the output of the sensor;
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- a computer memory,
- wherein detecting the separation between the nonstationary object and the aperture comprises comparing the signal at the output of the sensor to at least one threshold value stored in the computer memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.