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Method and device for the time-serial transmission of reception signals of electroacoustic transducers

US8094516B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GMBH · DE

Inventors

Peter Hoffman · Seattle, US
Kersten Mölck · Achim, DE
Eberhard Schmidt · Wuppertal, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 10, 2007
Grant date	Jan 10, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 12, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01V1/22
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method for the time-serial transmission of received signals of electroacoustic transducers (11), which are placed at different transducer locations (13) of a spatially spread receive arrangement (10), to a signal processing unit (12), in which at each transducer location (13) the received signals are digitized by an electronic module (20), and the digitized received signals are switched onto a data line (14, 15, 16) leading to the signal processing unit (12) in the timing pattern of a synchronization clock. To obtain a high data rate with undisturbed data transmission, the intrinsic switching-time errors of the electronic modules (20) are measured with respect to the switching times defined by the timing pattern, and compensated for at the transducer locations (13) by individual time delay of the signals to be switched.

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