Receiver system for determining the location of a magnetic field source
First Claim
1. A receiver system for identifying a location of a magnetic field source, the receiver comprising:
- a frame;
two and only two tri-axial antennas supported by the frame to detect a dipole magnetic field from the magnetic field source;
an orientation sensor to sense an orientation of the frame; and
a processor to receive an antenna signal from each of the two antenna assemblies and to determine the location of the magnetic field source relative to the frame using the antenna signals and the orientation of the frame;
wherein the two antennas detect the dipole magnetic field when the antennas are held in a substantially horizontal plane.
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Abstract
A method and receiver system for identifying a location of a magnetic field source using two horizontally displaced tri-axial antennas. In a preferred embodiment two tri-axial antennas are positioned at opposite ends of a receiver frame. Each antenna detects in three dimensions a magnetic field from a source or transmitter. The receiver is maintained in a horizontal plane and the receiver is moved in the horizontal plane until a flux angle measured at each of the two points is zero so that the receiver is in the vertical plane perpendicular to the axis of the source. The depth and location of the source in three dimensions relative to the receiver is determined using the detected field values. The receiver is moved in a direction defined by a line containing the two points of the receiver until a magnitude of the magnetic field detected at each of the two points is substantially the same so that the receiver is positioned above the source.
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1. A receiver system for identifying a location of a magnetic field source, the receiver comprising:
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a frame; two and only two tri-axial antennas supported by the frame to detect a dipole magnetic field from the magnetic field source; an orientation sensor to sense an orientation of the frame; and a processor to receive an antenna signal from each of the two antenna assemblies and to determine the location of the magnetic field source relative to the frame using the antenna signals and the orientation of the frame; wherein the two antennas detect the dipole magnetic field when the antennas are held in a substantially horizontal plane. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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