Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – With particular system function
Patent
1997-01-03
1998-07-07
Crosland, Donnie L.
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
With particular system function
340508, 340507, 340621, 73304R, 324727, 367 13, 367166, 367908, G08B 2900, H04R 1700
Patent
active
057775508
ABSTRACT:
A high reliability instrument system includes means for applying a test condition to the instrument and for determining whether the instrument properly responds to the test condition, and means for inhibiting the generation of an instrument output in response to such testing. This provides verification that most of the instrument system components, but not the system output, are properly functioning. The system further includes means for overriding the output-inhibiting function when it is desired to test the entire instrument system including the system output. The instrument system may include a gap-type ultrasonic instrument, with the test condition comprising a pulse applied to one crystal, the effects of which are detected at the other crystal to determine sensor integrity. The system is preferably configured as a two-wire on-off instrument system, in which application of the test condition at a transmitter is controlled by signals applied to the two-wire signal loop at a remote receiver. The system may be implemented as a quasi-redundant system having radio frequency instrument and an ultrasonic instrument disposed to monitor the same condition, in which both instruments may be connected to a single type of receiver and tested in response to the same type of signal generated by such receiver.
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Gorowitz Mort
Maltby Frederick L.
Mitchell Glen L.
Crosland Donnie L.
Drexelbrook Controls, Inc.
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