Electricity: measuring and testing – Measuring – testing – or sensing electricity – per se – Frequency of cyclic current or voltage
Patent
1977-04-29
1978-12-05
Strecker, Gerard R.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Measuring, testing, or sensing electricity, per se
Frequency of cyclic current or voltage
324233, 324239, G01V 310, G01R 3302
Patent
active
041288033
ABSTRACT:
A metal detector uses a transmitting search coil inductively coupled to a receiving coil for detecting the presence of metal objects near the surface of the ground within the field of the coils. An oscillator generates a signal transmitted by the transmit coil, and the signals detected by the receive coil are coupled to the signal inputs of two synchronous demodulators. The output of the oscillator also is applied at different phases to the reference signal inputs of the two synchronous demodulators. The outputs of these demodulators then are passed through low pass and bandpass filters having a low cutoff frequency which is higher than the highest frequency components generated in the synchronous demodulators due to ground effects. The signals passing through the bandpass filters then are applied respectively to the signal input and reference signal input of a third synchronous demodulator, the output signal of which has an amplitude representative of the presence of metal objects and the polarity of which is an indication of the type of metal being detected. Undesired signals produced by ground effects are reduced by a considerable amount, and the output of the third synchronous demodulator is applied to a suitable indicator circuit.
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PNI, Inc.
Ptak LaValle D.
Strecker Gerard R.
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