Methods, apparatuses, and systems for diagnosing misalignment in gas detecting devices
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsRodney Royston WATTS, Antony Leighton PHILLIPS, Peter Mark HARRIE
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Abstract
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for diagnosing misalignment in gas detecting devices are provided. An example method may include causing at least one detector component of a receiver element of the open path gas detecting device to generate a first light intensity indication corresponding to first infrared light; causing the at least one detector component to generate a second light intensity indication corresponding to second infrared light; and generating an alignment indication based at least in part on the first light intensity indication and the second light intensity indication.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A gas detecting device comprising a microcontroller electronically coupled to a receiver element and configured to:
- generate an alignment indication based at least in part on a first light intensity indication generated by the receiver element and a second light intensity indication generated by the receiver element, wherein the alignment indication indicates whether the receiver element is misaligned.
A method comprising:
- generating an alignment indication based at least in part on a first light intensity indication generated by a receiver element and a second light intensity indication generated by the receiver element, wherein the alignment indication indicates whether the receiver element is misaligned.
An open-path gas detector system for gas detection comprising:
- a microcontroller electronically coupled to a receiver element and configured to:
- generate an alignment indication based at least in part on a first light intensity indication generated by the receiver element and a second light intensity indication generated by the receiver element, wherein the alignment indication indicates whether the receiver element is misaligned.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.