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Title:
PRESSURE MEASURING DEVICE USING NON ACOUSTIC OPTICAL PRESSURE SENSOR, OR TDM(TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION) ARRAY OF NON ACOUSTIC OPTICAL PRESSURE SENSOR AND METHOD THEREFOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH11110673
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide an optical pressure sensor having high accuracy and not requiring a wide area and also not being influenced by a loss accompanying the transmission of an optical signal, by using a contactless pressure sensor which is not electrical.

Plural optical couplers are connected to an optical transmission cable 16 with intervals placed and a partial signal is taken out form a pulse signal at the connection place. When a pulse optical signal transmits along the cable 16 and enters an array of an optical pressure sensor 22, plural couplers are respectively provided with an optical splitter, the sensor 22 and non pressure sensitive reflector 26, and non overlap signal pairs 30a to 30c are returned to the cable 16. The signal pairs 30a to 30c are inputted to a processor, and an intensity ratio of a pressure presentation signal 24 and a reference signal 28 which are included in the pairs 30a to 30c till here respectively is calculated. With this, because noise and loss can be compensated by using the signal 28, it is possible to acquire accurate pressure measurement value regardless of the position of the pressure sensor.


Inventors:
FREDERICK DONALD A
HALL DAVID B
Application Number:
JP21462198A
Publication Date:
April 23, 1999
Filing Date:
July 29, 1998
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
LITTON SYSTEMS INC
International Classes:
G01L11/02; H04B10/00; G08C15/00; (IPC1-7): G08C15/00
Domestic Patent References:
JPH0650716A1994-02-25
JPH06109530A1994-04-19
JPH04151528A1992-05-25
JPH0545208A1993-02-23
JPS57108633A1982-07-06
JPH09318462A1997-12-12
JPS63195519A1988-08-12
JPS6382320A1988-04-13
Foreign References:
US4873989A1989-10-17
US4678909A1987-07-07
US5113070A1992-05-12
US5414507A1995-05-09
US5247490A1993-09-21
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Nakajima Shiro