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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 1985

Filed:

Sep. 18, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:

Walter E Miller, Jr, Huntsville, AL (US);

James W McKelvy, Huntsville, AL (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ; H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324225 ; 324207 ; 307520 ; 328166 ;
Abstract

The discriminator consists of two major parts; a nonlinear filter for low vel rejection, and inhibiting logic for high level rejection, of ac magnetic fields. The nonlinear filter approximately halves the frequency characteristics of a particular class of signals, while at the same time doubling the frequency of normal interfering signals. The inhibiting logic uses the known in-phase relationship to sense and reject even very large time dependent interference. However, spatially variant signals observed from near field relative motion of two orthogonal magnetic sensors with respect to a ferro-magnetic object have a near quadrature relationship that permits signal recognition even when of less amplitude than the interference.


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