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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 1978
Filed:
May. 13, 1976
Francis L Battle, Davenport, IA (US);
Gulf & Western Industries, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An improvement in a digital device for detecting a metal object in the field of influence of an oscillator controlling loop, which digital device includes counter means for counting pulses during a counting interval, with the magnitude of the pulse count during the interval being indicative of the metal detected by the loop. The improvement includes means for creating a group of binary logic signals indicative of the difference between the pulse count and a selected reference count, these signals are allocated from a least significant to a more significant binary number, and reading means for reading the logic of at least some of the binary logic signals, which reading device includes means for indicating a detection when the signal being read has a selected binary logic pattern.