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Technique for eliminating ambiguity when making pulse-echo timing measurements

US6009380A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 10, 1997
Grant dateDec 28, 1999
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Expiry dateSep 10, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N2291/2691
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method of measuring in a material a time-of flight of a signal having a first signal burst and a second signal burst, the first signal burst having a first set of cycles and the second signal burst having a second set of cycles. The method includes identifying a cycle in the second signal burst corresponding to a cycle in the first signal burst, to measure the time-of-flight of the signal.

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