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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 1990
Filed:
May. 11, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
John S Gergely, Ponca City, OK (US);
Assignee:
Conoco Inc., Ponca City, OK (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
25022717 ; 250225 ; 7351 / ; 73653 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for sensing vibrational disturbance using fiber optic coils conducting circularly polarized light. A circularly polarized light source illuminates each of a sensing fiber optic coil in a disturbance-sensitive environment and a reference fiber optic coil in a constant environment, and light from both coils is analyzed through polarization shuttering to detect the degree of polarization rotation thereby to enable determination of frequency and amplitude of the disturbance.