Inductive loop presence detector with cross talk filter
AssigneeSarasota Automation Limited
InventorBrian C. Jefferis
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Abstract
An inductive loop presence detector, more especially a vehicle detector, including a loop oscillator having an inductive loop connected as a frequency determining element of the oscillator, which inductive loop may be buried in a roadway to sense the presence of vehicles, and sensing circuitry to detect changes in the loop oscillator frequency due to vehicle movements in the vicinity of the loop, with a filter network inserted between the output of the loop oscillator and the sensing circuitry to improve performance when cross-talk occurs due to mutual interference between a number of inductive loop detectors forming part of a total installation. The filter network can be a phase-locked loop incorporating a low pass filter to attenuate high frequency components due to cross-talk.
Claims2
A system including a plurality of inductive loop presence detectors, each of said presence detectors comprising an inductive loop to (11) sense the presence of an object to be detected, a loop oscillator (12) having said inductive loop connected thereto as an element determining frequency of oscillation, sensing circuity (13) to detect changes in the loop oscillator frequency due to the movement of an object to be detected in the vicinity of said loop, and a filter network (14) inserted between the loop oscillator output and the input of said sensing circuitry, said filter network comprising a phase-locked loop including a filter (17) with a pass band sufficiently low to attenuate beat frequency components due to cross talk caused by mutual interference between said plurality of inductive loop detectors.
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