Patents by Inventor Peter Verbeke

Peter Verbeke has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System to measure the state of corrosion of buried metallic structures continuously in time and in length
    Publication number: 20030169058
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a system for measuring the state of corrosion of a buried metallic strictures, such as a pipe line, characterized in that said measurement system allows said corrosion measurement simultaneously and continuously in time on several locations of said buried structure. The measurement system comprises a measuring cable (1), itself comprising several current electrodes (2) and several measuring electrodes (3), several addressable switching devices (20) and an electrical bus (6), a reference electrode (5) and a control system (4) comprising an embedded controller (8), an interface board (9) and a measurement board (7), wherein said measurement board (7) comprises an AC and/or DC voltage generator (50) and a voltage measurement device (51). The present invention is also related to the use of said measurement system for various corrosion measurements and for a number of applications not related to corrosion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2003
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventors: Christian Pierre, Peter Verbeke