Modular sensor assembly
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsRoderick Gordon Brown, Harbhajan Singh Mankia, Keith Fleming
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Abstract
A modular sensor assembly for performing measurement or calibration is disclosed, comprising a sensing module comprising a threaded spigot, a first slip ring conductive track, and a second slip ring conductive track; a base module comprising a threaded receptacle, a first conductor, and a second conductor; wherein the sensing module is detachably mounted to the base module by rotating the threaded spigot into the threaded receptacle thereby forming a first electrical connection between the first slip ring conductive track and the first conductor, and a second electrical connection between the second slip ring conductive track and the second conductor.
Claims13
A modular sensor assembly for performing measurement comprising:
- a sensing module comprising a threaded spigot, a first slip ring conductive track, and a second slip ring conductive track,
- a base module comprising a threaded receptacle, a first conductor, and a second conductor;
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- wherein said sensing module is detachably mounted to said base module by rotating said threaded spigot into said threaded receptacle thereby forming a first electrical connection between said first slip ring conductive track and said first conductor, and a second electrical connection between said second slip ring conductive track and said second conductor.
A method of detachably mounting a sensing module to a base module to form a modular sensor assembly for performing measurement, said method comprising:
- rotating a threaded spigot of said sensing module into a threaded receptacle of said base module thereby forming
- a first electrical connection between a first slip ring conductive track of said sensing module and a first conductor of said base module, and
- a second electrical connection between a second slip ring conductive track of said sensing module and said second conductor of said base module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.