ONE OR MORE FIBER OPTIC SENSORS LOCALLY BONDED WITH A FLEXIBLE FILAMENT STRUCTURE

    公开(公告)号:US20220316865A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-06

    申请号:US17638458

    申请日:2020-08-27

    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a flexible filament structure, and a fiber optic sensor with a buffer material that locally bonds the fiber optic sensor to the flexible filament structure to create a bond between the fiber optic sensor and the flexible filament structure to transfer strain from the flexible filament structure to the fiber optic sensor to allow the fiber optic sensor to detect strain on the flexible filament structure while maintaining flexibility in the flexible filament structure. A fiber optic interrogator may be optically coupled to the fiber optic sensor and configured to measure strain. A method comprises embedding a fiber optic sensor with a buffer material in or on a flexible filament structure. Thereafter, the buffer material is activated via heating or curing to locally adhere the fiber optic sensor to the flexible filament structure to create a local bond. The local bond transfers strain from the flexible filament structure to the fiber optic sensor.

    Distributed fiber optic acoustic sensor

    公开(公告)号:US11169019B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-09

    申请号:US16076295

    申请日:2017-02-10

    Abstract: One example coherent optical time domain reflectometer device includes a coherent light source that produces coherent probe light pulses at an optical wavelength; an optical coupling unit coupled to f a fiber link under test to direct the coherent probe light pulses into the fiber link and to receive reflected probe light pulses from the fiber link; an optical detection unit to receive the reflected probe light pulses and structured to include an optical interferometer to process the reflected probe light pulses along two different optical paths to generate different optical output signals from the reflected probe light pulses along different optical paths, and optical detectors to receive the optical output signals from the optical interferometer; and a device controller coupled to the optical detection unit to extract information on spatial distribution of acoustic—or vibration—or strain-dependent characteristics as a function of distance along the fiber link under test.

    SECURITY SWITCH
    5.
    发明申请
    SECURITY SWITCH 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20190258092A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-22

    申请号:US16401337

    申请日:2019-05-02

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to optical switching devices and switch modules that are designed for long-term security monitoring of high-value infrastructure access entry points. Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure include optical switches based on fiber-Bragg gratings whose operating wavelengths are based on the presence or absence of magnetic coupling between an embedded permanent magnet and an external element. By monitoring the spectral position of the operating wavelengths and/or the magnitude of a light signal at the operating wavelengths, the state of the magnetic coupling can be determined and used as an indicator of whether the security switch has been actuated.

    Method and apparatus for multiple localized interferometric measurements

    公开(公告)号:US10295380B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-21

    申请号:US15505726

    申请日:2015-08-21

    Abstract: An optical sensing fiber includes multiple reference reflectors spaced along a length of the fiber. Each of the multiple reference reflectors producing a reference scattering event having a known scattering profile including an elevated amplitude relative to scattering detected for neighboring segments of the optical fiber. Each of the segments is a length of contiguous fiber that is useable to initialize and perform a distributed Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry (OFDR) sensing operation. An OFDR interrogation system is disclosed that measures a parameter using the optical sensing fiber.

    Medical training kits and methods to simulate treatment of uncontrolled hemorrhage
    7.
    发明授权
    Medical training kits and methods to simulate treatment of uncontrolled hemorrhage 有权
    用于模拟不受控制的出血治疗的医疗训练套件和方法

    公开(公告)号:US09542861B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-01-10

    申请号:US14380276

    申请日:2013-02-22

    Abstract: Medical training kits and methods include a simulated liquid blood which simulates mammalian whole blood and a simulated hemostatic component. The simulated liquid blood includes a gellable component, and a simulated hemostatic component includes a gelling agent. The gelling agent causes the gellable component in the simulated liquid blood to form a mass of semi-solid or solid material in response the simulated blood being brought into contact therewith to thereby simulate blood clotting. In certain embodiments, the gellable component is chitosan and/or an alginate compound and the gelling agent is at least one compound which causes the gellable component to desolubulize, polymerize, complex, precipitate, cross-link and the like so as to form a semi-solid or solid mass of chitosan in response to physical contact between the simulated blood and the simulated hemostatic agent.

    Abstract translation: 医疗训练套件和方法包括模拟哺乳动物全血的模拟液体血液和模拟止血组件。 模拟液体血液包括可凝胶组分,并且模拟止血组分包括胶凝剂。 凝胶化剂导致模拟液体血液中的可凝胶组分形成一批半固体或固体材料,以响应模拟血液与其接触,从而模拟血液凝固。 在某些实施方案中,可凝胶组分是壳聚糖和/或藻酸盐化合物,并且胶凝剂是至少一种使可凝胶组分脱粘,聚合,复合,沉淀,交联等的化合物,以形成半 壳聚糖的固体或固体物质响应于模拟血液和模拟止血剂之间的物理接触。

    Sensing systems and methods for determining and classifying corrosivity
    8.
    发明授权
    Sensing systems and methods for determining and classifying corrosivity 有权
    用于确定和分类腐蚀性的感测系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US09518915B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-12-13

    申请号:US14416392

    申请日:2013-07-15

    Abstract: A corrosivity associated with each of multiple locations near, on, or within a structure exposed to an environment that can corrode the structure is determined. Each of multiple sensor nodes is mounted at a corresponding one of the locations and measures environmental sensor information using one or more environmental sensors and corrosion sensor information using one or more corrosion sensors. The environmental sensor information is processed to obtain for the sensing node a first atmospheric corrosivity category value in accordance with a corrosivity classification system, and the corrosion sensor information is processed to obtain a second atmospheric corrosivity category value for the sensing node in accordance with the corrosivity classification system. One or more of the first and second atmospheric corrosivity category values is provided for use in determining a corrosion classification value for each of the locations.

    Abstract translation: 确定与暴露于可能腐蚀结构的环境的结构附近,之上或之内的多个位置中的每一个相关联的腐蚀性。 多个传感器节点中的每一个安装在相应的一个位置处,并使用一个或多个腐蚀传感器使用一个或多个环境传感器和腐蚀传感器信息来测量环境传感器信息。 处理环境传感器信息,以根据腐蚀性分类系统为感测节点获得第一大气腐蚀性类别值,并且根据腐蚀性来处理腐蚀传感器信息以获得感测节点的第二大气腐蚀性类别值 分类系统 提供第一和第二大气腐蚀性类别值中的一个或多个用于确定每个位置的腐蚀分级值。

    TRANSPARENT HYDROPHOBIC COATING MATERIALS WITH IMPROVED DURABILITY AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME
    9.
    发明申请
    TRANSPARENT HYDROPHOBIC COATING MATERIALS WITH IMPROVED DURABILITY AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME 审中-公开
    具有改善耐久性的透明疏水涂料及其制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US20160237283A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-08-18

    申请号:US15026635

    申请日:2014-10-02

    Abstract: Durable, transparent, inorganic-organic hybrid hydrophobic coating materials for glass, metal or plastic substrates are provided. The coating materials are generally an acid catalyzed condensation reaction product comprised of an organic polymeric silane (e.g., a polyol functionalized with a silane through a urethane linkage or a polyamine functionalized with a silane through a urea linkage, such as isocyanatopropyltrimethoxysilane or isocyanatopropyltriethoxysilane), an inorganic metal alkoxide (e.g., silicon alkoxides such as tetraethoxysilane or tetramethoxysilane) and a fluorinated silane (e.g., (3,3,3-trifluoropropyl)trimethoxysilane or nonafluorohexyltrimethoxysilane).

    Abstract translation: 提供用于玻璃,金属或塑料基材的耐用,透明,无机 - 有机混合疏水涂层材料。 涂料通常是由有机聚合硅烷(例如,通过氨基甲酸酯键或硅烷经官能化的多胺,通过脲键官能化的多胺,例如异氰酸根合丙基三甲氧基硅烷或异氰酸根合丙基三乙氧基硅烷)组成的酸催化缩合反应产物, 无机金属醇盐(例如,四烷氧基硅烷或四甲氧基硅烷等硅醇盐)和氟化硅烷(例如,(3,3,3-三氟丙基)三甲氧基硅烷或非氟己基三甲氧基硅烷)。

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