Patents Represented by Law Firm Brumbaugh, Graves, Dononue & Raymond
  • Patent number: 4031367
    Abstract: A pulse circuit periodically produces test pulses of two different amplitudes which are eventually fed in appropriate time intervals to the input of a multi-channel pulse height analyzer to enable continuous monitoring and correction of the offset of the analyzer. Although the amplitudes of both pulses may drift with temperature and time, their amplitude ratio is substantially constant over a broad temperature range. The ratio of numbers, corresponding to the locations of the centroids of the two test pulse peaks in the pulse height analyzer output spectrum, is compared with a reference value of this ratio, and, if the measured ratio deviates excessively from the reference, the offset of the analyzer is adjusted in a direction such that subsequent centroid measurements and ratio comparisons yield tolerably small deviations from the reference ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Richard D. Murphy