Coupled Oscillator Signal Quantization for Instant Environmental Sensing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing environmental sensing technologies face inefficiencies, unreliability, and complexity in detecting multiple environmental conditions simultaneously, often requiring time for data processing and lacking precision.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising electromagnetically coupled oscillator circuits with multiple negative resistance regions, providing multiple stable equilibriums, generates output signals with unique amplitude and frequency patterns that change with environmental conditions, allowing for instantaneous detection without separate reference sources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If digital sensors with processors are used to detect environmental conditions, then measurement capability is improved, but time delay and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the processing function from separate digital sensors and integrates it into the sensing elements themselves. Each sensing element directly generates a digital output signal corresponding to its detected environmental condition, eliminating the need for external processors and reducing overall system complexity while maintaining measurement precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The sensing elements perform self-processing by directly converting detected environmental conditions into digital output signals without requiring external processing components. This self-service capability eliminates time delays associated with data transmission and processing, while also reducing device complexity by removing separate processor components.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple digital sensors with processors are used to detect multiple environmental conditions, then measurement capability is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple sensing functions into a single integrated sensor assembly where multiple sensing elements work together. Each sensing element detects a specific environmental condition and directly outputs a digital signal, allowing the system to monitor multiple conditions simultaneously without requiring separate complex processing components for each sensor.
Solution Approach 2:
The sensor assembly is designed with multi-functionality, where a single integrated structure can detect multiple different environmental conditions through its various sensing elements. This universal design eliminates the need for multiple separate sensor assemblies, reducing overall device complexity and cost while maintaining the ability to monitor multiple parameters.
3Measurement precision
If sensors process data over time to generate environmental condition calculations, then measurement accuracy is improved, but response time decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The sensing elements are pre-configured with specific functional relationships between detected environmental conditions and their corresponding digital output signals. This preliminary configuration allows the sensors to directly generate accurate digital outputs without requiring time-consuming processing calculations, achieving both high measurement precision and fast response times simultaneously.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach enables efficient, reliable, and precise detection of environmental conditions such as altitude, attitude, and temperature, providing instantaneous and accurate readings through unique pattern recognition without cumbersome computations.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of oscillator circuits that are electromagnetically coupled together, wherein the coupling of the plurality of oscillator circuits generates an output signal that includes a voltage and a current
Implementation Method 2
at least one nonlinear resistor having multiple negative resistance regions such that the oscillator circuits provide multiple stable equilibriums
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system for detecting and precisely measuring information content of one or more environmental conditions. The system may include a plurality of oscillator circuits (102, 104) that are coupled together. The coupling of the oscillator circuits (102, 104) generates an output signal having a pattern (200, 202, 204, 206, 208) of amplitude and frequency. The pattern of amplitude and frequency (200, 202, 204, 206, 208) changes as one or more values of the environmental condition(s) change.