High uniformity metal detector equipped with auxiliary receiver coils sensitive to metal masses passing close to them

• US 5,406,259 A
• Filed: 04/19/1993
• Issued: 04/11/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: CEIA - Costruzioni Elettroniche Industriali Automatismi - SPA
• Original Assignee: CEIA - Costruzioni Elettroniche Industriali Automatismi - SPA
• Inventors: Manneschi, Giovanni
• Primary Examiner(s): Kostak, Victor R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Miller, John W.
• Application Number:
  US08/053,380
• Time in Patent Office: 722 Days
• Field of Search: 340/561, 340/568, 340/941, 340/572, 324/239, 324/234, 324/226, 324/262, 324/225
• US Class Current: 340/561
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 3/02 with provision for altering or correcting the law of variation
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 5/204 by influencing the mutual induction between two or more coils G01D5/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 3/105 forming directly coupled primary and secondary coils or loops

Abstract

A perfected metal detector for passageways, equipped with transmitter-recer Tx-Rx windings connected, using suitable amplifiers A and D, to an Analysis and Control Logic Unit LAC where the signals are compared; and also equipped with at least one corrective receiver winding CC on each side of a supervised passage used to supply information to the LAC unit about metal bodies in transit along paths close to it, with the aim of rendering uniform the interceptive sensivity throughout the transit area, even when more than one metal body is in simultaneous transit.

Claims

1. Metal detector for detecting metal objects within a supervised area to be used at entrances of premises needing protection from an admission of armed persons and for other uses connected with an interception of metal objects, comprising at least one transmitter unit T_x and at least one receiver unit R_x placed on each side of said supervised area, each connected through amplifiers to a logic unit for analysis and control LAC where signals induced by a perturbation of a magnetic field within said supervised area are measured and compared wherein said metal detector further comprises at least one corrective receiver winding CC on each side of said supervised area, said at least one corrective receiver winding CC being used to provide information to said LAC unit about metal bodies in transit along paths close to said at least one corrective winding CC, said signals induced in said at least one corrective winding CC facilitating an application of suitable corrective coefficients K which render an interception sensitivity of said metal detector uniform throughout said supervised area by adjusting a gain of an amplifier amplifying signals induced within said at least one receiver unit R_x, even when more than one metal body is in simultaneous transit.

2. Metal detector as claimed in claim 1, wherein two transducer sections are placed on each side of said supervised area, each having said at least one corrective receiver winding CC designed so that each one of said corrective receiver windings CC is able to receive only E. M. F. variations induced by a passage of metal bodies in close proximity to said at least one corrective receiver winding CC, and to ignore those bodies passing towards a center of said supervised area or near an entrance of said supervised area.

3. Metal detector as claimed in claim 1, wherein transducer sections positioned at each side of said supervised area each comprise said at least one transmitter winding T_x, said at least one receiver winding R_x, and said at least one corrective receiver winding CC connected via amplification units to said LAC which controls and analyses said induced signals for processing.

4. Metal detector as claimed in claim 1, wherein said metal detector comprises at least two T_x sections and at least two R_x sections, and said at least one corrective receiver winding CC on each side of said supervised area.

5. Metal detector as claimed in claim 1, wherein said metal detector comprises two winding sections, one section positioned at each side of said supervised area, a first one of said sections comprising two transmitter windings T_x and said at least one corrective receiver winding CC, and a second one comprising two receiver windings R_x and said at least one corrective receiver winding CC.

6. Metal detector as claimed in claim 1, wherein said metal detector comprises two winding sections, one section positioned at each side of said supervised area, each of said winding sections comprising two corrective receiver windings CC partially overlapping each other.

7. Metal detector as claimed in claim 1, wherein said metal detector comprises two winding sections, one section positioned at each side of said supervised area, each comprising said at least one corrective receiver winding CC overlapping said R_x, T_x, or T_x -R_x windings of a same section.