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US 2014/0207389 A1Published application
Methods for Detection and Localization of Internal and External Disturbances in a Pipeline
OwnerDavid Alan Haynerinventor
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Abstract
Apparatus and methods for the detection and localization of internal and external disturbances in and around a physical structure from data generated by an array of sensors and processing systems connected to the physical structure.
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A data acquisition and processing system integrated into a transportation bridge structure comprising:
- at least two sensors networked together in a manner enabling a digital processing system to acquire data generated by the sensors and communicate results of processing this data to remote systems;
- said sensors are one of an accelerometer, gyroscope, pressure, acoustic, temperature, magnetic, optical, torsion, tension and force measuring devices;
- said sensors are physically distributed on said transportation bridge structure in such a manner that said sensors sample propagating mechanical waves in said transportation bridge structure and sample external mechanical waves as they impact and interact with said transportation bridge structure;
- digital processing methods to estimate the location of an internal source of mechanical disturbance in said transportation bridge structure;
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- digital processing methods to estimate a set of potential locations of an external source of mechanical disturbance effecting said transportation bridge structure.
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A data acquisition and processing system integrated into a pipeline transportation structure comprising:
- at least two sensors networked together in a manner enabling a digital processing system to acquire data generated by the sensors and communicate results of processing this data to remote systems;
- said sensors are one of an accelerometer, gyroscope, pressure, acoustic, temperature, magnetic, optical, torsion, tension and force measuring devices;
- said sensors are physically distributed on said pipeline transportation structure in such a manner that said sensors sample propagating mechanical waves in said pipeline transportation structure and sample external mechanical waves as they impact and interact with said pipeline transportation structure;
- digital processing methods to estimate the location of an internal source of mechanical disturbance in said pipeline transportation structure;
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- digital processing methods to estimate a set of potential locations of an external source of mechanical disturbance effecting said pipeline transportation structure.
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A data acquisition and processing system integrated into a transportation vehicle structure comprising:
- at least two sensors networked together in a manner enabling a digital processing system to acquire data generated by the sensors and communicate results of processing this data to remote systems;
- said sensors are one of an accelerometer, gyroscope, pressure, acoustic, temperature, magnetic, optical, torsion, tension and force measuring devices;
- said sensors are physically distributed on said transportation vehicle structure in such a manner that said sensors sample propagating mechanical waves in said transportation vehicle structure and sample external mechanical waves as they impact and interact with said transportation vehicle structure;
- digital processing methods to estimate the location of an internal source of mechanical disturbance in said transportation vehicle structure;
- and
- digital processing methods to estimate a set of potential locations of an external source of mechanical disturbance effecting said transportation vehicle structure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.