Dielectric-loaded surface-condition sensor and method

Details Dielectric-loaded surface-condition sensor and method Dielectric-loaded surface-condition sensor and method

1995-09-21

1997-07-29

Wieder, Kenneth A.

Electricity: measuring and testing

Impedance, admittance or other quantities representative of...

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324642, 324 711, G01N 2700

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056525222

ABSTRACT:
A dielectric-loaded, microwave sensor which can detect dielectric coatings, e.g., air, water and ice, on a road surface. The sensor includes an antenna having an aperture and also includes a dielectric member with a lower surface and an upper surface. The dielectric member is arranged with its lower surface across the antenna aperture and the sensor is embedded in a road with the dielectric member's upper surface coplanar with the road's surface. An antenna beam, which is incident upon the dielectric member, generates a return microwave signal which is the composite of microwave reflections from the dielectric member's inner and outer surfaces. Air, water and ice can be uniquely identified by the absence or presence of an amplitude minimum at predetermined frequencies of the return microwave signal. The thickness of an ice coating is determined by observation of the frequency of the amplitude minimum.

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