System for monitoring plant assets including machinery
US6405139B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 15, 1998 |
| Grant date | Jun 11, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 15, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01R13/5216
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system for monitoring machine data which avoids the need for the cumbersome placement of junction boxes adjacent machines that heretofore had required installing the junction boxes on walls, studs, or stanchions. Instead, a rigid conduit having conductors therein communicate with an integrated sealed instrument package that allows the conductors' communication between an asset such as a machine to be monitored via transducers to a signal processor at a remote location. A multiplicity of assets can be monitored through this arrangement by providing signal differentiation for the various machines.
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