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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:
Jun. 19, 1990
Filed:
May. 15, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert A Boenning, Timonium, MD (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324555 ; 340665 ;
Abstract
A conduit has a core and an axial length susceptible to being pinched and chafed by other structure adjacent the conduit. An inner semiconductive layer extends the length of the conduit susceptible to being pinched and has a reference point adapted to be electrically connected with a detecting circuit for detecting a pinch and/or a computing unit for determining the location of a pinch. A resiliently compressible electrical switching layer, which is nonconducting when not pinched and conducting when pinched, is superposed against the inner semiconductive layer.