Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – Specific condition
Patent
1994-05-20
1996-08-06
Swarthout, Brent A.
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
Specific condition
340566, 340693, 73587, 73658, G08B 1300
Patent
active
055437834
ABSTRACT:
An acoustic transducer has an output which is fed through a preamplifier to a multiple of parallel filters. Each parallel filter passes a band of signals having frequencies within a predetermined range of frequencies. Each band of signals is converted from analog to digital and input to a signal processing unit. The peak amplitude value and the average value of the output from each parallel filter is determined. The peak amplitude value and average amplitude value are compared to determine if a pretrip condition occurs. If a pretrip condition occurs, the average value is saved and compared with the peak amplitude value for a select number of time periods to determine if a trip condition exists. A special test can be used which alters the number of time periods used in determining if a trip condition exists, based on a comparison the peak amplitude value between two of the bands. An alarm condition is generated when trip conditions occur for each of the bands of signals within a second predetermined time period.
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