Communications: electrical – Continuously variable indicating – Using a particular modulation
Patent
1991-10-18
1993-04-13
Yusko, Donald J.
Communications: electrical
Continuously variable indicating
Using a particular modulation
34087009, 34087024, 341182, 324 76R, G08C 1916
Patent
active
052026825
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for measuring operations data which uses a commercially available digital multimeter (DMM) as the data receiving and display device. In one preferred embodiment, for example, basic operations data is transduced to digital form and then coded with a width modulator. The width modulated data may represent, for example, total elapsed time or total counts of a measured operation. The full-scale range of the data is encoded as frequency. A technician reads the frequency of the data signal with the DMM to determine the full-scale range of the data and then reads percent-of-range with the DMM as duty cycle. For multiple operations data, peak voltage is used as a parameter identifier. Alternatively, the value of the parameter being measured, the full-scale range, and the parameter identifier may be encoded as any combination of frequency, peak voltage, or duty cycle. In a further aspect, one parameter, preferably frequency, may be encoded with additional information, such as data site and data channel. In another aspect, the data stream is amplitude modulated to indicate selected alarm levels.
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Brochure on Fluke 80 Series multimeter, by John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., 1988-1989.
Crozier John H.
Curtis Instruments, Inc.
Horabik Michael
Yusko Donald J.
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