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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2013
White's Electronics, Inc., Sweet Home, OR (US);
Carl Moreland, Corvallis, OR (US);
White's Electronics, Inc., Sweet Home, OR (US);
Abstract
This invention relates to a metal detector where a coil is used to transmit a periodic magnetic field to energize metal objects that are concealed and often buried or hidden in a matrix (ground) containing ferromagnetic minerals. There are many difficult and often simultaneous challenges, such as detecting large deep targets, detecting minutely small targets, identifying target properties, ignoring the ferromagnetic matrix, avoiding a net magnetic field which can trigger magnetic sensors in land mines, and ignoring conductive salt responses. Either time-domain or frequency domain methods have been used to address these challenges with mixed levels of success. The ability to simultaneously use time-domain and frequency-domain methods can expand detection capability. Techniques are presented for achieving these goals.