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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. 18, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas P Strong, Lafayette, NY (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73 4 / ; 73 491 ; 324532 ; 324533 ;
Abstract
A pipe line with integral fault detection and localization capability includes an inner electrically conductive pipe line element; a layer of dielectric material coaxial with the inner pipe line element, and an outer conductive coaxial element which, in combination with the inner pipe line element and the dielectric layer forms a coaxial transmission line for transporting fluids over long distances, and identifying and localizing faults.