Communications: electrical – Selective – Having electron beam device
Patent
1976-03-08
1978-05-30
Birmiel, Howard A.
Communications: electrical
Selective
Having electron beam device
179 15AL, 179 15BL, 340 7R, 340 155DP, 340 155MC, 340152T, 340183, G01V 122
Patent
active
040926290
ABSTRACT:
The seismic system includes a seismic sensor cable assembly having 50 cable sections and much of the seismic data processing electronics decentralized into the cable structure itself. The cable assembly is coupled to a central station mounted in a recording vehicle. The central station includes recording circuitry and apparatus to receive, process and record digital data words from a data link in the cable assembly and circuitry for transmitting control signals into an interrogation link in the cable assembly. The electrical output of each sensor unit constitutes a separate input channel. The cable sections are spaced apart and interconnected by small-diameter, cylindrical connector modules which contain a transceiver unit for processing the signals from ten sensor units in an associated cable section. Contained within each transceiver unit is a multiplexer having a plurality of filtered input channels coupled respectively to the elemental sensor units, and an output. In response to a first interrogation pulse transmitted through the interrogation link from the central station unit, the multiplexer advances to a selected input channel to acquire a first analog data sample. A second interrogation pulse sequences the respective multiplexers in all 50 modules to select a second channel for sampling and digitizing to provide digital data-words for the respective second channels. The self clocking phase-encoded data words transmitted from the respective transceiver associated with each cable section are ordered in accordance with the propagation delay time of the interrogation link between the central station and the respective transceiver units. Self clocking data words from corresponding channels within the respective transceiver units are ordered in accordance with the channel-select sequence during a scan cycle.
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Morgan Paul M.
Savit Carl H.
Siems Lee E.
Birmiel Howard A.
Knox William A.
Western Geophysical Co. of America
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