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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:
Jan. 28, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2009
Applicant:
Thomas Dobler, Hatzenbühl, DE;
Inventor:
Thomas Dobler, Hatzenbühl, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/00 (2006.01); G08B 5/36 (2006.01); G01D 7/00 (2006.01); G01L 1/24 (2006.01); G01N 29/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a method and a device for determining a leak in at least one system component (through) and/or a state of a system component (through) of a system, at least one section of one or more system components (through) is monitored optically. Sound emissions occurring in or on at least one of the system components (through) are detected, analyzed and localized, wherein acoustically localized sound emission areas of the affected system component (through) are also optically detected and analyzed.