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US 4,198,621 AGranted
Electrical remote sensing system
AssigneeCrowcon (Instruments) Limited
InventorGraham B. Roper
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Abstract
A sensing unit described in which the cable providing the unit with power also acts to transmit a signal representative of the parameter being sensed e.g. gas concentration. The unit comprises a switched mode voltage regulator the switching frequency of which corresponds to the value of the parameter being sensed.
Claims7
A sensing unit for monitoring a parameter at a remote location and adapted to be connected by a power supply and signal carrying cable to a central location, the unit consisting essentially of a sensor element having an electrical condition varying in dependence on the value of the parameter,
- means connected to the sensor element for converting the condition of the sensor element to a variable frequency signal representative of a variable parameter at the remote location, and
- a switched mode voltage regulator arranged to operate at a switching frequency, connected to the power and signal carrying cable and to the converting means and arranged to provide a stable fixed voltage power source forming part of the sensing unit, wherein the switching frequency of the switched mode voltage regulator is identical to and continuously varying in dependence on the variable frequency signal representative of the value of the parameter, while the regulator maintains the voltage applied to the converting means at a fixed value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.