Method and apparatus for locating cable faults

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8474320
APP PUB NO 20120006117A1
SERIAL NO

13178682

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An electrical pulse fed into an electrical cable, e.g. a power transmission or distribution cable buried underground, produces an acoustic signal, e.g. an arc-over or discharge noise, at a fault in the cable. This acoustic signal is detected and used to locate the fault. But the acoustic signal has interference noise superimposed on it, which makes it difficult to identify the acoustic signal in the noise-burdened received signal, and thus also makes it difficult or impossible to accurately locate the fault. To minimize or avoid the influence of interference noises, the relevant acoustic signal is identified in the received signal by comparing the received signal with predetermined sample data, such as signal patterns, characteristics or characteristic sets.

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TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDENHELMHOLZSTR 10 DRESDEN 01069
HAGENUK KMT KABELMESSTECHNIK GMBH01471 RADEBURG

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Berth, Torsten Moritzburg, DE 3 23
Kordon, Ulrich Dresden, DE 1 14
Kuerbis, Steffen Dresden, DE 1 14
Kuettner, Marco Dresden, DE 3 22
Stephan, Marco Dresden, DE 4 27
Wolff, Matthias Goerlitz, DE 6 37

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