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Remote sampling system

US6916219B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 8, 2002
Grant dateJul 12, 2005
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Expiry dateSep 6, 2023

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N2035/00881
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An automated system for periodically sampling water bodies, such as lakes, and delivering the test results to a remote computer using a communication system. In particular, the system has a variable buoyancy profiler with a dynamic buoyancy compensator responding approximately linear to a water pressure created by an external water body so as to actively or passively interact with an external force or pressure thereby moving the profiler to a target depth.

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