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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2008
Jeremiah Glen Pearce, Houston, TX (US);
Robert Rex Burnett, Katy, TX (US);
Richard Martin Ostermeier, Houston, TX (US);
William Mountjoy Savage, Houston, TX (US);
Jeremiah Glen Pearce, Houston, TX (US);
Robert Rex Burnett, Katy, TX (US);
Richard Martin Ostermeier, Houston, TX (US);
William Mountjoy Savage, Houston, TX (US);
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the present disclosure, a system and a method are disclosed for measuring a time varying magnetic field. In one aspect, a system comprises a plurality of induction coils arranged to measure the time varying magnetic field using at least one voltage induced in at least one of the induction coils in the plurality of induction coils, a plurality of snubber circuits connected to the plurality of induction coils, each of the snubber circuits of the plurality of snubber circuits arranged to suppress a resonance of a respective one of the induction coils of the plurality of induction coils, and a summing circuit connected to each of the snubber circuits of the plurality of snubber circuits, the summing circuit arranged to sum voltages induced in each of the induction coils in the plurality of induction coils.