CN104808241A - Movable Vehicle Used For Serving Earthquake-related Data Acquiring Unit - Google Patents

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CN104808241A
CN104808241A CN201510264279.9A CN201510264279A CN104808241A CN 104808241 A CN104808241 A CN 104808241A CN 201510264279 A CN201510264279 A CN 201510264279A CN 104808241 A CN104808241 A CN 104808241A
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The invention discloses an earthquake-related data acquiring unit and a method and a system used for serving the earthquake-related data acquiring unit. In one embodiment, the acquiring unit comprises a sensor, a storage battery and a data storing device. The acquiring unit also comprises a wireless communication unit and a wireless electric power unit. The wireless communication unit is configured to wirelessly transmit data from the data storing device to a control unit. The wireless electric power unit is configured to wirelessly charge the storage battery from an electric power supplying unit when being coupled to the electric power supplying unit.

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There is the seismic data acquisition unit of wireless communication unit and wireless power unit
The application is the applying date is on March 14th, 2014, application number is 201410092918.3, and denomination of invention is the divisional application of the application for a patent for invention of " the removable vehicles for serving for seismic data acquisition unit ".
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This application claims March 15 in 2013 day header is right of priority and the rights and interests of the U.S. Provisional Application numbers 61/792,232 of " seismic data acquisition unit and the method and system (Seismic Data Acquisition Units and Methodsand Systems for Servicing Same) of serving for it ".
Technical field
Technical field of the present invention relates generally to seismic prospecting, more particularly relates to seismic data acquisition unit and the removable vehicles for seismic data acquisition unit service.
Background technology
Several different collecting unit is used in seismic prospecting, connects collecting unit, wireless collection unit and autonomous node collecting unit comprising cable.Although the detailed construction of collecting unit can depend on desired acquisition strategies at least in part, prior art collecting unit can be divided into interconnect cable and integral collecting unit generally.For example, the Hawk that can obtain from INOVA Geophysical tMwith product comprises field station unit respectively, and described field station unit has the connector corresponding to outside accumulator and external sensor.Outside accumulator can by one or more bar hole coupling to field station unit, and described cable is connected to the electric connector on the unit of field station.Similarly, external sensor can be connected to field station unit by one or more bar cable, and described cable is connected to the sensor connector on the unit of field station.Sensor and accumulator are connected provided dirigibility to the cable of field station unit and are, can use the accumulator of different size and type and dissimilar sensor.Easily break down (if not such as suitably being coupled) during but cable is connected to seismic survey, and may be corroded or damage.
Usually the another kind of collecting unit not comprising any external interconnect cable is commonly referred to as integral type or integrated collecting unit.These integral type collecting units can not lock into the fault of External cable, but usually still need the aerial lug being connected to service module by one or more bar line, so that for internal battery charging, from the internal storage device downloading data of collecting unit and/or the controling parameters uploading the operation for described unit.In some cases, the same problem of the External cable in puzzlement field also can affect aerial lug and the wired connection with service module thereof, and such as unsuitable coupling, burn into are polluted, damaged etc.
In typical seismic survey, under collecting unit may be in harsh condition, this both may be due to challenging environment (such as desert, snow etc.), also may be because workman is for the manipulation of equipment.In many seismic surveys, may need to arrange/fetch collecting unit several times to/from some diverse locations.For example, collecting unit can be disposed in first object position, is collected, returned to central campsite to carry out charging and Data Collection, and is re-arranged subsequently and is collected in the second target location, equally and turns back to central campsite to carry out charging and Data Collection.In addition, for large-scale seismic survey, target location potential range central authorities campsite is relatively far away, and may not be in have developed regions that clearly limit, that be easy to the road travelled.These critical conditions may cause or aggravate previously described cable and aerial lug problem.As an example, fetch collecting unit, for it provide service and rearranged time, workman inadvertently may damage aerial lug.As another example, storm or other abiogenous events may cause aerial lug corrosion to occur or becomes to remove with connector to be coupled etc.
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Figure 1A is the skeleton view of an example of collecting unit.
Figure 1B is the simplification calcspar of the collecting unit shown in Figure 1A.
Fig. 2 is the skeleton view of another example of collecting unit.
Fig. 3 is used to the top view laying an example of system on a vehicle of the collecting unit service of Fig. 1 and/or Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is used to the top view laying another example of system on a vehicle of collecting unit service.
Fig. 5 shows by the removable vehicles process flow diagram of the example being the service of multiple collecting unit.
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There has been described some examples of the connectorless collecting unit of such as seismic data acquisition unit and so on, and for some examples of the infrastructure that extracts gathered data from described data acquisition unit.In some instances, described collecting unit can comprise multiple wave point, such as, for the first wave point of the charge in batteries for collecting unit, and/or for from/to collecting unit downloading data and/or the second wave point uploading controling parameters.Described infrastructure can comprise the vehicles (such as truck, train, SUV, aircraft, boats and ships etc.) moving to another target location from a target location, and multiple collecting unit can be wirelessly coupled to the described vehicles.For example, multiple collecting unit can be wirelessly coupled to the described vehicles, to be the internal battery charging of collecting unit, to download the geological data gathered, and programme for the seismic survey being about to carry out to collecting unit from collecting unit.
Now with reference to accompanying drawing, Figure 1A and 1B shows an example of data acquisition unit 100.Collecting unit 100 can comprise outer cover, one or more intrawares of it can encapsulate at least in part (and can encapsulate completely in some instances) data acquisition unit 100.Described outer cover can define multiple side 101,102,103,104,105,106, and each side described together defines an internal chamber.In some instances, collecting unit 100 can take the shape with the parallelepipedon in sphering or level and smooth corner as shown in Figure 1A.In other instances, collecting unit 100 can have different shapes, such as right cylinder, cube, extrudes hexagon etc.As a rule, collecting unit 100 and outer cover thereof can take any suitable shape.Still with reference to Figure 1A, in some instances, the top of collecting unit 100 and bottom sides 101,102 can be greater than other sides 103,104,105,106 (such as having more high surface area) usually, such as to make it tend to land with top or bottom sides 101,102 one of them when dropping collecting unit at a certain angle.In addition, in some instances, the weight distribution of collecting unit 100 can obtain similar effect.
Collecting unit 100 may be suitable for being buried underground completely, part is buried underground, is placed on earth's surface, is placed under water and/or is suspended in water body.
Data acquisition unit 100 can comprise multiple wave point 110,112, can be wirelessly coupled to other objects, such as service unit or truck by described wireless interface data collecting unit 100.Wave point can be any interface without cable and/or connector, contrary its transmits certain content (such as data, electric charge) by another kind of mode, as by electromagnetic radio waves transmission data, by time-varying magnetic field transmission charge etc.A wave point can be wireless communication unit 110, data acquisition unit 100 can be wirelessly coupled to another device by described wireless communication unit, and data acquisition unit can send data (such as observed geological data) by described wireless communication unit and/or receive data (such as ordering).Another wave point can be wireless power unit 112, can be data acquisition unit 100 wireless charging by described wireless power unit.Wave point 110,112 can substitute traditional aerial lug to operate, thus makes data acquisition unit 100 not comprise any aerial lug.Owing to reducing or eliminating aerial lug fault, therefore by not having reliability and the performance that any aerial lug can improve data acquisition unit 100.In addition, data acquisition unit 100 can also be allowed to be used in different environment owing to not having aerial lug, be such as used in deep water, and high pressure may be exposed at deep water peripheral connector, and its fault may be catastrophic.
It is one or more that data acquisition unit 100 can comprise in the middle of the following: data storage device 114, accumulator 116, processor 118, AD converter (ADC) 120, sensor 122 and timing/positioning unit 124.Data storage device 114 can be solid-state, flash memory, hard disk drive, volatile data storage type etc., and can comprise observed geological data and/or the operating parameter for control data collecting unit 100 during seismic survey.Accumulator 116 can be the rechargeable battery of the accumulator of any type, such as lithium ion or other types, or the disposable power supply that single uses, and can have any suitable capacity.Processor 118 can be coupled to other assemblies 110,112,114,116,120,122,124 of data acquisition unit 100, and can control the operation of other assemblies described in response to the programming (being such as stored in data storage device 114 and/or the integrated configuration parameter be stored in processor 118) being provided to processor 118.Sensor 122 can be the seismic sensor of any type, such as motion or pressure transducer.For example, sensor 122 can be one or more simulation and/or digital 1C, 2C or 3C motion sensor, such as 1C geophone, based on the 3C accelerometer of MEMS or the sensor based on optical fiber.
Regularly/positioning unit 124 can comprise internal clocking and/or GPS or other positioning systems.In general, data collection module 110 can comprise any one or more assemblies, and this depends on that the expectation of data acquisition unit 100 or meaning determine purposes.
In some instances, the one or more inside that can be rigidly attached to outer cover in the middle of the assembly 110,112,114,116,118,120,122,124 of data acquisition unit 100.In general, one or more assembly 120,122,124,126,162,172 can be coupled to the outer cover of data acquisition unit 100 by any suitable mode, therefore the details how being coupled to outer cover about described assembly is not shown in fig. ib.In addition, for the sake of clarity, the electrical interconnection between assembly 110,112,114,116,118,120,122,124 is not shown in the simplification calcspar of Figure 1B.In some instances, data acquisition unit 100 and all aspects thereof can be reinforced, to reduce the failure rate of unit 100 when being arranged in field.
In some instances, data acquisition unit 100 can also comprise removable spike 126, so as in the wild installation data collecting unit 100 time improve being coupled of unit 100 and ground.Such as can optionally remove spike 153 by screw from the outer cover 151 of sensor assembly 150.
Get back to the wireless communication unit 110 shown in Figure 1B, this unit 110 can comprise the communication system be configured to from data storage device 114 to one or more types of control module (control module 346 such as Fig. 3) wirelessly transmitting data.For example, wireless communication unit 110 can comprise short distance (being such as 1-10 rice in some instances), high bandwidth (being such as 10Mbps to 10Gbps in some instances) receiver and/or forwarder, such as WiFi antenna and associative processor or Bluetooth antenna and associative processor.In some instances, such as, when by data acquisition unit 100 is wirelessly coupled to the central station in field, long distance, low bandwidth receiver and/or forwarder can also be comprised.Wireless communication unit 110 can also comprise identification information, and it such as can comprise a sequence number or part number, or can comprise the RFID that identifies each data acquisition unit 100 uniquely for tracking object.In operation, wireless communication unit 110 can receive order and data from the corresponding wireless communication unit the service module such as described in further detail later, and the geological data that can provide alarm to it and observe.For example, wireless communication unit 110 can receive for the order of the state (wherein such as comprising accumulator level, current configuration parameters etc.) checking data acquisition unit 100, for order transmitting a part of geological data etc. to data storage device.Wireless communication unit 110 can also provide the response for received order, its geological data that such as a part can be provided to observe to data storage device.
Referring again to wireless power unit 112, its can be configured to when this wireless power unit 112 is coupled to electric power supply unit from electric power supply unit (electric power supply unit 342 such as Fig. 3) be accumulator 116 wireless charging.Described wireless power unit can come for charge in batteries by the wireless charging of any type, such as inductive charging (such as Qi standard), electromagnetic induction, electrodynamic induction, electrostatic induction, capacitive couplings, electromagnetic radiation, near field charging or usual any type of wireless charging.
For electromagnetic induction charged system, data acquisition unit 100 can have one or more side 101,102,103,104,105,106, and described side can have one or more inductive coil.Described inductive coil (invisible in Figure 1A) can with the corresponding inductive coil wireless coupling on charging surface (surface 336 in such as Fig. 3), to realize wireless charging.For electromagnetic induction charged, the inductive coil on charging surface can cause electromagnetic fiele, and described electromagnetic fiele causes electric current in the inductive coil of collecting unit 100, thus charges for accumulator 116.In some instances, the single side of data acquisition unit 100 can comprise one or more inductive coil; In other instances, two or more or even all sides of collecting unit 100 can comprise inductive coil, and in general, if there is enough corresponding charging surfaces, then inductive coil is more, and unit 100 just can more quickly charge by position accumulator 116.Certainly, for the wireless charging of other types, collecting unit 100 can comprise other suitable assemblies.
Referring now to Fig. 2, illustrated therein is another example of data acquisition unit 207.Data acquisition unit 207 is similar to the collecting unit 100 shown in Figure 1A and 1B generally, its difference is, data acquisition unit 207 in Fig. 2 comprises removable modules or unit 208, and it is adapted to is received by the hatch 207A in data acquisition unit 207.In some instances, hatch 207A can also comprise breech lock or other mechanisms be used for a removable modules or unit 208 in position.Removable modules or unit 208 can provide the benefit being similar to the connectorless data acquisition unit 100 shown in Figure 1A and 1B (such as not having aerial lug), but the dirigibility with traditional seismic data acquisition unit operation of interconnect cable that can also be provided as described in background parts and diversity.Removable modules 208 such as can allow to use different assemblies in different seismic surveys.
Still with reference to Fig. 2, in an example, removable modules 208 can define the outer cover of encapsulation accumulator 116, and it is that accumulator 116 charges that removable modules 208 can be configured to make it possible to by the main body of data acquisition unit 207, and/or make accumulator 116 can provide electric power for the main body of data acquisition unit 207 (being such as processor 118).In another example, data storage device 114 can be accommodated in removable unit 208, and removable unit 208 can be wirelessly coupled to the main body of data acquisition unit 100.In this embodiment, data storage device 114 can receive electric power from the subject radio of data acquisition unit 100, and can receive order from the main body of data acquisition unit 100 to wirelessly and provide response and data to the main body of data acquisition unit 100.In another example, removable modules 208 can be timing unit, it can allow in a seismic survey (such as wherein GPS observability is better) to use the timing unit based on GPS, and (such as wherein GPS observability is poor) uses high precision, low drifting oscillator in follow-up seismic survey.In other instances, removable modules 208 can be removable sensor module.In general, any one or more assemblies 110,112,114,116,118,120,122,124 can be packed or be embodied in removable modules or unit 208.
Referring now to Fig. 3, illustrated therein is an example for the removable vehicles 330 of serving for data acquisition unit (data acquisition unit 100,207 in Fig. 1 and 2).The vehicles 330 can be truck in some instances, but also can be the vehicles of boats and ships, aircraft, the outer cover carried by animal, motorcycle, tractor, trailer or any other type.The vehicles 330 can comprise feeder 332, and it can be placed near the rear end of the vehicles.Feeder 332 can operate to receive multiple data acquisition unit, and can sort out it and/or place it on a surface, than first surface 336 as shown in Figure 3.First surface 336 during transportation (such as when the vehicles 330 move to another position from a position) can keep described multiple data acquisition unit 100,207, and can be the induction charging surface 336 with multiple inductive coil in some instances, described inductive coil is configured to be coupled to the corresponding inductive coil in collecting unit 100,207, as already described above.In some instances, surface 336 can comprise the many places depression that collecting unit 100,207 can be assemblied in wherein, and in other instances, surface 336 can be smooth substantially.In some instances, the vehicles 330 can comprise clamp or other mechanisms for by data acquisition unit 100,207 in position, and prevent it to be during transportation shifted.The vehicles 330 can also comprise the system (such as mechanical arm) in order to optionally to remove defective data acquisition unit 100,207 from first surface 336.Or can alarm be sent when detecting defective data acquisition unit 100,207, thus prompting user manually removes defective data acquisition unit 100,207.Similarly, the vehicles 330 can not comprise feeder 332 in some instances, and in this case, data acquisition unit 100,207 can manually be placed on surface 336 by user.
In some instances, the vehicles 330 can comprise gatherer 334, and it is used for receiving (receive) data acquisition unit 100,207 of serve, and preparation is rearranged in target location.Second surface 338 between first surface 336 and gatherer 334, and can receive the data acquisition unit 100,207 of serving.In an example, first surface 336 can for being inclined upwardly when data acquisition unit 100,207 charges, thus gravity makes data acquisition unit 100,207 slide to second surface 338, thus vacate first surface 336 to receive next group data acquisition unit 100,207.
The vehicles 330 also comprise charging, control and download website 340, and it has for the multiple assemblies with data acquisition unit 100,207 interface.Stand and 340 such as can comprise electric power supply unit 342, it is configured to provide electric power when electromagnetic induction can occur on surface 336,338 to surface 336 and/or surface 338, to charge for the accumulator 116 in data acquisition unit 100,207.Charging, control and download website 340 also comprise control module 346, its be configured to charging, control and download website 340 other parts and also provide order to the multiple data acquisition units 100,207 be positioned on one of them or whole two surfaces 336,338.For example, described control module describe with reference to Fig. 5 after can performing charging, control and download website 340 operation.Charging, control and download website 340 can also comprise the wireless communication unit 344 with antenna 345, can set up wireless data link by described antenna 345 between the wireless communication unit 110 in the wireless communication unit 344 of the vehicles and each data acquisition unit 100.Wireless communication unit 344 can also set up high bandwidth, Short range data link, and it can be protected in some instances encrypted or by other means.
Charging in the vehicles 330, control and download website 340 can also comprise the data storage cell 348 storing and transmit from the data of multiple data acquisition unit 100,207, and can comprise the QC unit 350 in order to implement quality control from the data of multiple data acquisition unit 100,207 to transmission.Can allow to implement efficient Quality Control Analysis in the wild by having QC unit 350 on the vehicles 330, namely because the reason of computational resource implements unpractical analysis in independent data acquisition unit 100,207, and the analysis preferably implemented between Harvest time at least in part (instead of waiting until that exploration carries out quality control outside scene at server zone or computer cluster place after terminating).
Shown in Figure 3 and the removable vehicles 330 described here can be referred to as rolling (rolling) truck, and serve that being used in rolls and scatter may be efficient especially in the seismic data acquisition unit 100,207 in (rolling spreads), that is, in seismic survey, during surveying, with certain systematicness, collecting unit 100,207 is moved to new position to gather target under different earth's surfaces.In such seismic survey, the removable vehicles 330 can allow workman that accumulator has been exhausted and the data acquisition unit 100,207 wherein storing geological data drops in feeder 332 fast, and move to another target location from a target location.
While data acquisition unit 100,207 is transported to next target location, be arranged in the charging of the vehicles 330, control and download website 340 to charge for the accumulator 116 of data acquisition unit 100,207, download the geological data and status information observed from data acquisition unit 100,207, and/or provide control (such as acquisition parameter being programmed into wherein) to data acquisition unit 100,207.In this manner, the vehicles can no longer need data acquisition unit 100,207 to return to central campsite to carry out charge in batteries and data download, thus due to " stopping using " time of collecting unit 100,207 less, totally rollably earthquake survey can be more efficient.In other words, the vehicles 330 allow workman to utilize the shipping time between the first and second target locations to be data acquisition unit 100,207 service.
In addition, because data acquisition unit 100,207 is wirelessly coupled to the vehicles 330 (being such as charge in batteries and downloading data), therefore not existing on data acquisition unit 100,207 may due to jolting and other landform that out-of-flatness or the vehicles 330 run into and the aerial lug that comes loose in road.On the contrary, even if also can Wireless Data Transmission be carried out under the condition of jolting very much, similarly, (such as) is that accumulator 116 charging can allow collecting unit 100,207 that some occur to move and can not cause materially affect to charging process by inductive charging.
In the scope of present disclosure, there is many possible modification about the removable vehicles 330 shown in Fig. 3.For example, feeder 332 can serve as divider or ranker, and it is placed on multiple different position each data acquisition unit 100,207 as required.If wireless communication unit 344 is inquired about a data acquisition unit 100,207 and received show that its accumulator is in extremely low-level response, then this data acquisition unit 100,207 can be placed on surface 336 thus can for charge in batteries.If wireless communication unit 344 is inquired about another data acquisition unit 100,207 and received show that still it has the response that observed geological data will be transferred to the vehicles 330 to its accumulator close to being full of electricity completely, then feeder 332 can be placed on another position (not shown in Fig. 3) this data acquisition unit 100,207.
About will specific data acquisition unit 100,207 be placed on where determination (thus also have about by this data acquisition unit 100,207 implement which kind of operation determination) forward-looking acquisition plan can also be depended on.For example, if described acquisition plan data acquisition unit 100,207 will be transported to second target location not far from one another with unit 100,207 picked positions, and the accumulator 116 of unit 100,207 is still relatively full, then control module 346 can only make to download the geological data observed from first object position, but can not be charged for accumulator 116 by electric power supply unit 342.
In addition, now concrete with reference to Fig. 2, data acquisition unit 207 comprises in the example of one or more removable modules 208 wherein, feeder 332 can operate the main body of removable modules 208 with data acquisition unit 207 to separate, and different parts are directed to zones of different on the vehicles to carry out different services.To have the data acquisition unit 207 of removable battery module 208, the vehicles 330 can have a region for carrying out inductive charging for removable battery module 208, and for another region of the main body of placing data acquisition unit 207, may need to carry out induction type power supplying (but not necessarily carrying out inductive charging) to this another region if described removable battery module is removed.But in another example, common surface 336 can be used to charge for removable battery module 208, and provide electric power therefrom to download the geological data observed to the main body of data acquisition unit 207.
Referring now to Fig. 4, wherein illustrate and describe another example of the removable vehicles 431.The vehicles 431 can be similar to the vehicles 330 shown in Fig. 3, and its difference is, the vehicles 431 in Fig. 4 comprise in order to receive multiple frames 437 with one or more data acquisition units 409 of one or more aerial lug.In some instances, frame 437 can comprise the individual Docking station for data acquisition unit 409, and described Docking station can have the shape conformed to collecting unit 409.Similarly, the vehicles 431 comprise for the electric power supply unit 442 for the corresponding charge in batteries in corresponding data acquisition unit 409, and are configured to the vehicle communication unit 447 to/from the opposite communication unit transmission data within each in the middle of multiple data acquisition unit 409.But wherein one or more data acquisition units 409 can be coupled to one or more frame 437 (being such as coupled to the line with the aerial lug electric coupling on data acquisition unit 409) by one or more wired connection.In this manner, the vehicles 431 can be served for traditional integral type seismic data acquisition unit 409 effectively, and do not need to return to position, central campsite.On the contrary, the same with the vehicles 330 shown in Fig. 3, the vehicles 431 shown in Fig. 4 can utilize the haulage time between the first and second target locations from traditional data collecting unit 409 downloading data with one or more aerial lug, and are charge in batteries wherein.Also should be mentioned that, in some instances, the vehicles can be associated with the feature from the vehicles 330,431 shown in Fig. 3 and 4 simultaneously, and such as, frame 437 in Fig. 4 can double as inductive charging surface, and communication unit 447 additionally can comprise radio transmitter.In this manner, the vehicles 431 can serve traditional data acquisition unit 409, also can serve the data acquisition unit 100,207 without any aerial lug.
An exemplary operation flow process of the operation corresponding to the vehicles 330 is described in conjunction with data acquisition unit 100 now with reference to Fig. 5.In operation 502, workman can be placed into one or more data acquisition unit 100 in the feeder 332 of the removable vehicles 330.In operation 504, control module 346 can data query collecting unit 100 to determine its state and by data link wireless coupling with it, such as to determine whether to need for any charge in batteries or the need of any the observed geological data of download.If then feeder 332 can be placed into data acquisition unit 100 on the surface 336 of the vehicles 330.In operation 506, electric power supply unit 342 can initiate the wireless charging of the accumulator 116 for data acquisition unit 100, and in operation 508, wireless communication unit 344 and/or control module 346 can be initiated from data acquisition unit 100 by the wireless transmission of described data link to the geophysical data of the data storage cell 348 of the vehicles 340.In some instances, other business also can trigger described wireless charging or Wireless Data Transmission, for example, if surface 336 has weight sensor (not shown in Fig. 3), then weight sensor can detect that data acquisition unit 100 is placed on surface 336, and weight sensor can send signal to initiate described process to control module 346 or to electric power supply unit 342.
In operation 510, control module 346 can initiate the self-test of one or more data acquisition unit 100 in some instances.Described self-test can be such as the performance of testing sensor 122, and test timing unit 124 there occurs how many drifts, level of test accumulator 116 etc.In operation 512, control module 346 can initiate the programming of data acquisition unit 100.Described programming can be such as the drift regulating the timing unit 124 gathered, setting positional parameter, regulate the sensitivity of sensor 122, regulate the threshold value of trigger alerts or specific operation, regulate internal timing unit, and/or set the acquisition parameter of such as gain setting, sample interval and recording dispatching table and so on.
After wireless charging, Wireless Data Transmission, self-test and/or programming operation, seismic data acquisition unit 100 can be moved to gatherer 334, and user can fetch unit 100 for being arranged in next earthquake target location at this place.
Describe according to the equipment of present disclosure and the method that is associated with reference to its specific embodiment so that its principle of operation to be described above.Therefore, description is above illustrative and nonrestrictive.According to instruction here, those skilled in the art will recognize that the various modifications and changes for described embodiment.Those skilled in the art such as can be susceptible to many systems, setting and method, although it is not here explicitly shown or describes, and the principle that its specific implementation is described and within the spirit and scope therefore dropping on present disclosure.
As an amendment example, although Figure 1A, 1B and 2 show the data acquisition unit 100,207 of the aerial lug without any type, in some instances, collecting unit can comprise the aerial lug of a type but not comprise another kind.For example, collecting unit can not comprise electric power/charging external connector and therefore can by service vehicle wireless charging, but described collecting unit can comprise data transmit outer connector, or vice versa.As another example, although Fig. 3 and 4 shows an example of the field service vehicle for the data acquisition unit 100,207 shown in Figure 1A, 1B and 2, but in some instances, still conventionally the data acquisition unit 100,207 shown in Figure 1A, 1B and 2 can be transported and get back to central campsite (such as not using the vehicles 330 or the vehicles 431), and can be alternatively that data acquisition unit 100,207 is served at central campsite place.As another amendment example, many operations as described herein (in such as Fig. 5 504,506,508,510,512) can when without the need to carrying out in data acquisition unit 100,207 physical transport to the removable vehicles.Correspondingly, the disclosed embodiments all this type of changes, variants and modifications all drops in the scope of present disclosure.
In the appropriate case, common reference word is used for common structure and method characteristic.But for descriptive object, exclusive reference word is employed for similar or identical structure or method element.Therefore, common or different reference word is used to be not intended to show to exceed the similarity outside scope as described herein or difference for similar or identical structure or method element.
In the method here directly or indirectly set forth, each step and operation is described in a kind of possible sequence of operation, but those skilled in the art will recognize that, can reset, replace or remove described step and operation and not necessarily can deviate from the spirit and scope of the disclosed embodiments.
All relative directions with reference to (comprising: top, below, upwards, downward, left and right, left, to the right, top, bottom, side, on, under, front, middle part, rear, vertical, level etc.) provide all as an example, to help reader understanding's specific embodiment as described herein.Clearly set forth unless done in detail in the claims, otherwise described direction with reference to should not being interpreted as especially in regard to position of the present invention, the requirement of sensing or use or restriction.Connect and should be construed broadly with reference to (be such as attached, be coupled, connect, combine etc.), and the relative movement between the intermediate member that can comprise between element connection and element.Therefore, clearly set forth unless done in detail in the claims, otherwise connect with reference to meaning that two elements directly connect and have fixed relationship each other.

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1. a data acquisition unit, comprising:
Sensor;
Accumulator;
Data storage device;
Wireless communication unit, is configured to from data storage device to control module wirelessly transmitting data; And
Wireless power unit, be configured to when described wireless power unit is coupled to electric power supply unit via electromagnetic induction from described electric power supply unit be charge in batteries.
2. data acquisition unit according to claim 1, wherein said wireless communication unit be configured to use short distance, high bandwidth wireless data link to control module wirelessly transmitting data with from control module wirelessly transmitting data.
3. data acquisition unit according to claim 1, wherein said sensor, accumulator, data storage device, wireless communication unit and wireless power unit package are in the outer cover defining multiple side.
4. data acquisition unit according to claim 3, wherein said outer cover is not defined for the aerial lug of data transmission.
5. data acquisition unit according to claim 3, wherein said outer cover is not defined for the aerial lug into charge in batteries.
6. data acquisition unit according to claim 3, described sensor, accumulator, data storage device, wireless communication unit and wireless power unit are sealed in described outer cover by wherein said outer cover, are exposed to external environment condition to avoid the internal chamber of described collecting unit.
7. data acquisition unit according to claim 1, also comprise the removable modules of the outer cover of definition encapsulation accumulator, wherein said removable modules is configured to by data acquisition unit wireless charging, and is configured to further wirelessly provide electric power to data acquisition unit.
8. data acquisition unit according to claim 1, wherein said data storage device is accommodated in and is wirelessly coupled in the removable unit of data acquisition unit, described data storage device is configured to from data acquisition unit wireless receiving electric power, and is configured to further receive data from data acquisition unit and send data to data acquisition unit.
9. data acquisition unit according to claim 1, also comprises removable sensor module, sensor described in wherein said removable sensor module package.
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