Abstract: An apparatus for fiber optic network testing includes a housing configured and adapted to couple to a mobile device and one or more network interfaces in communication with the housing. The one or more network interfaces are configured and adapted to operatively couple to a terminal end of a fiber optic cable. The apparatus also includes a magnification lens in operative communication with the housing and the one or more network interfaces.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 16, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 25, 2017
Assignee:
Fluke Corporation
Inventors:
Wonoh Kim, Randy Fischer, J. David Schell
Abstract: A system for producing thermal images acquires at least first and second thermal images comprising a plurality of pixels and a first and second dynamic range, respectively. The second dynamic range is such that its upper limit is higher than that of the first, and at least partially overlaps the first. A final thermal image is created comprising pixels from the first thermal image that are not saturated or nearly saturated with respect to the first dynamic range, and pixels from the second thermal image that are saturated or nearly saturated with respect to the first dynamic range. The resulting final image generally comprises both a large dynamic range and high signal-to-noise ratio.
Abstract: A lens assembly for a camera or a camera including a first lens mounted to a base portion, and a second lens mounted to a lens frame, where the first lens and the second lens are positioned co-axially along a central axis. The lens assembly includes a linear guide system for maintaining alignment of the first and second lenses. An embodiment of the linear guide system includes a first elongated element elongated along a longitudinal axis extending therethrough, parallel to and offset from the central axis. The elongated element may support and guide the lens frame for linear movement along a linear path parallel to the central axis. Some embodiments of the lens assembly include a second elongated element or rotation restriction element.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 27, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 25, 2017
Assignee:
Fluke Corporation
Inventors:
William Weidner, Timothy Olsen, Michael Loukusa
Abstract: A system and method for receiving a data packet in a cable network testing device from a remotely located cloud host service/device. The data packet contains selected cable test device configuration instructions. The selected device instructions, once implemented in a cable test device, configure the cable test device to perform one or more cable network testing procedures in accordance with predetermined testing parameters. The cloud host service/device contains a plurality of test device configuration instructions to be selected by a user, which user may be remote from the cable test device.
Abstract: A cable testing system and method including at least one testing device configured to perform cabling testing pursuant to a cabling testing configuration and a cloud-based server device configured to couple, via the Internet, to the at least one testing device. The server device includes a database configured to store one or more cabling testing configurations and a processor configured to send one or more cabling testing configurations from the database to the at least one testing device such that the at least one testing device performs a cabling test pursuant to the cabling test configuration received from the server device.
Abstract: A system and method for generating messages from a cloud-based server relating to cable test device usage. Provided is at least one test device configured to perform one or more cabling test procedures and a cloud-based server configured to couple to the at least one cable test device for transmission of data therewith. The cloud-based server includes a database configured to store test device activity data received from the one or more cable test devices. The cloud-based server includes a processor configured to define messages to be electronically delivered to one or more prescribed recipients contingent upon a defined event being satisfied by the received cable test device activity data and to analysis the cable test device activity data stored in the database to determine when a defined event has been satisfied. A message is electronically transmitted to the prescribed recipients when the defined event is determined satisfied.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 8, 2015
Publication date:
April 13, 2017
Applicant:
FLUKE CORPORATION
Inventors:
Clinton J. Wooton, David E. Bezold, John Paul Hittel
Abstract: Various embodiments provide a temperature regulated circuit. The temperature regulated circuit includes a suspended mass that is positioned in an opening of a frame. The suspended mass is suspended from the frame by a plurality of support beams that may be made of thermally insulating material. The suspended mass provides a thermally isolated substrate for an integrated circuit. The suspended mass also includes a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the integrated circuit, and a heater configured to heat the integrated circuit. A controller is positioned on the frame and is configured to receive temperature measurements from the temperature sensor and control the heater based on the temperature measurements.
Abstract: A Rogowski coil in a sensor unit has voltage induced by a conductor surrounded by the Rogowski coil. The voltage is integrated to represent current which is converted to digital data representing current in the conductor and sent wirelessly to a multimeter. The sensor unit may receive control signals from the multimeter. A plurality of sensor units may be networked and controlled by a remote control apparatus.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 25, 2014
Date of Patent:
March 28, 2017
Assignee:
Fluke Corporation
Inventors:
Matthew Carl-Robert Bannister, David Lawrence Epperson, Clark N. Huber
Abstract: A system for detecting a location of optical energy leakage from optical fibers, including a portable imaging device for generating a visible image of one or more optical fibers within a field of view of the portable imaging device, an optical energy detector assembly associated with the portable imaging device and configured to detect a location of optical energy leakage from an optical fiber within the field of view of the portable imaging device, and a processor associated with the imaging device and the optical energy detector assembly for overlaying a computer generated representation of the detected location of optical energy leakage from an optical fiber within the field of view of the portable imaging device over a visible image of the plurality of optical fibers generated by the portable imaging device to create a composite image.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 11, 2015
Publication date:
March 16, 2017
Applicant:
FLUKE CORPORATION
Inventors:
J. D. Schell, John P. Hittel, Jackson Salling, Wonoh Kim
Abstract: A pressure controller/calibrator has multiple modules. Each module has a stage, an elongated rail fixed to chassis of the controller or the module, and resilient guides fixed to the other of the stage or the chassis. In one embodiment, the rail has a proximate end at an edge of the chassis and a distal end inside the chassis. The distal end of the rail wider is than its proximate end. Between the two ends, the rail has concave contours that cooperate with convex springs in the stage to hold the stage at a desired location in the chassis.
Abstract: At least two input signals, each characterizing a radio signal having a radio frequency (RF), are received. The input signals are converted into at least three output signals. The output signals have a unique combination of corresponding magnitudes for each RF phase difference between the input signals. A set of magnitudes corresponding to the output signals is measured using a mobile measuring device. An RF phase angle value is determined based the measured set of magnitudes. The RF phase angle value is converted into an angle value indicative of the direction of arrival of the radio signal.
Abstract: Systems can include a mobile device, an accessory configured to generate data representative of at least one parameter of a device under test, and an isolated test block comprising at least one input for interfacing with the accessory and an output configured to communicate accessory output data. The mobile device can include a display and be configured to receive the accessory output data from the isolated test block and to present a display based at least on received accessory output data. The accessory output data received by the mobile device can be electrically isolated from the accessory to provide protection to a device user and the mobile device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 16, 2015
Date of Patent:
February 14, 2017
Assignee:
Fluke Corporation
Inventors:
Christopher J. Bohn, Michael D. Stuart, Jeffrey M. Elrod, Derrick M. Jones
Abstract: A system and method of coordinating power states between two detachable units is disclosed. Only the primary unit has a user-controllable power control. The secondary unit is not directly user controllable. The power states of the two units are coordinated using an actuator mechanism when the units are attached. When the two units are detached, the state of the secondary unit is dependent upon the state of the primary unit and any subsequent commands transmitted by the primary unit to the secondary unit.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 28, 2014
Date of Patent:
February 7, 2017
Assignee:
Fluke Corporation
Inventors:
Paul H. Heydron, Christoper Rayburn, Jeffrey C. Hudson
Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a mobile measurement system includes a handheld device, a measurement device, and an optical sensing device. The measurement device and the optical sensing device are communicatively coupled to the handheld device. The handheld device receives measurement data that comprises at least one measured electrical parameter corresponding to a physical property of an external system. The measurement device generates measurement data that corresponds to a period of time. The measurement device communicates the generated measurement data to the handheld device. The optical sensing device generates optical data corresponding to an interface of the measurement device and the external system where the measurement data is being generated. The generated optical data corresponds to a particular time within the measurement period of time. The mobile measurement system associates and stores the generated optical data for the particular time with measurement data corresponding to the period of time.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 15, 2013
Date of Patent:
January 24, 2017
Assignee:
Fluke Corporation
Inventors:
David Lawrence Epperson, Glen Howard Vetter
Abstract: There is provided techniques for improved visualization of wireless devices in a communication network. The techniques include receiving, via an identification device, real-time display data, determining, via the identification device, a location of a network device and displaying, via a display of the identification device, the real-time display data and an indication of the location of the network device relative to the real-time display data.
Abstract: Apparatus and methods for measuring current flowing through a conductor include a device comprised of a magnetically conductive loop having a plurality of strands and a magnetic field sensor. Each strand has a magnetically conductive material. The strands are configured to pass a magnetic field to a first magnetic field sensor that is positioned adjacent to an end of the first plurality of strands. The plurality of strands may be arranged in various patterns that allow the magnetically conductive loop to be more bendable or flexible than a current-clamp device.