Docking station for wireless seismic acquisition nodes
AssigneeSercel
InventorsCyrille Bernard, Mathieu Sanche
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Abstract
A docking station for receiving different types of seismic nodes, the docking station including a frame; a control module attached to the frame plural docking modules attached to the frame, wherein each docking module includes plural docking bays; a monitor attached to the frame and configured to display information about the plural docking modules; and a network connection device attached to the frame and configured to provide data transfer capabilities for each docking bay of the plural docking bays. The plural docking bays are configured to accept interchangeable ports that are compatible with the different types of seismic nodes.
Claims20
A docking station configured to receive different types of seismic nodes, the docking station comprising:
- a frame;
- and
- docking modules attached to the frame, each docking module including plural docking bays, the docking bays being configured for supplying power to and transferring seismic data from a seismic node docked therein,
- wherein at least one of the docking modules is configured to accept interchangeable ports that include digital ports and analog ports, the analog ports and the digital ports sliding out and into one of the plural docking bays.
A docking station configured to receive different types of seismic nodes, the docking station comprising:
- docking modules, each docking module including plural docking bays;
- a frame configured to receive the docking modules;
- a control module configured to control supplying power to and transferring seismic data from a seismic node docked in one of the plural docking bays;
- and
- a network connection device configured to provide data transfer capabilities for each of the plural docking bays,
- wherein at least one of the docking modules is configured to accept interchangeable ports including analog ports and digital ports, the analog ports and the digital ports sliding out and in one of the plural docking bays.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.