Data concentration system for inner detector of oil-gas pipeline, and timing control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11477001-B2
Application number	US-201716646140-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 4, 2017
Priority date	Sep 11, 2017
Publication date	Oct 18, 2022
Grant date	Oct 18, 2022

Abstract

A data concentration system for an inner detector of an oil-gas pipeline, and a timing control method, the system includes: a multi-channel data receiving module, a data concentration module and a data transmission module. The multi-channel data receiving module is electrically connected to a plurality of probes of an inner detector and is configured to receive detection data acquired by the plurality of probes. The data concentration module is electrically connected to the multi-channel data receiving module, and is configured to receive the detection data outputted by the multi-channel data receiving module and compress the detection data. The data transmission module is electrically connected to a data storage module of the inner detector and the data concentration module respectively, and the data transmission module is configured to receive compressed detection data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A data concentration system for an inner detector of an oil-gas pipeline, comprising:
a multi-channel data receiving module, electrically connected to a plurality of probes of the inner detector and configured to receive detection data acquired by the plurality of probes;
a data concentration module, electrically connected to the multi-channel data receiving module, and configured to receive the detection data outputted by the multi-channel data receiving module and compress the detection data; and
a data transmission module, electrically connected to the data concentration module and configured to receive compressed detection data from the data concentration module;
wherein, the multi-channel data receiving module adopts a duplex communication mode, and the multi-channel data receiving module is configured to simultaneously transmit an acquisition instruction to the plurality of probes and receive the detection data acquired by the plurality of probes.

2. The data concentration system of claim 1 , wherein, the detection data received by the multi-channel data receiving module under an acquisition instruction has a length greater than or equal to 16 bits, and less than or equal to 32*16 bits.

3. The data concentration system of claim 1 , wherein the multi-channel data receiving module comprises a differential communication chip.

4. The data concentration module of claim 1 , wherein, the multi-channel data receiving module comprises data receiving units; the data receiving units are provided with a plurality of data receiving channels; and each of the plurality of probes is electrically connected to the data receiving unit through a corresponding data receiving channel.

5. The data concentration system of claim 4 , further comprising a first self-recovery insurance module electrically connected in the corresponding data receiving unit between each of the plurality of probes and the electrical receiving channel.

6. The data concentration system of claim 5 , further comprising a data storage module electrically connected to the data transmission module.

7. The data concentration system of claim 6 , wherein, the data transmission module is a single-channel data transmission module; the single-channel data transmission module comprises a data transmission unit; the data transmission unit is electrically connected to the data storage module; and a data transmission mode of the single-channel data transmission module is the duplex communication mode.

8. The data concentration system of claim 7 , further comprising a second self-recovery insurance module electrically connected between the data storage device and the data transmission unit.

9. The data concentration system of claim 1 , wherein, the data concentration module is a single-chip microcomputer or a field programmable gate array.

10. The data concentration system of claim 1 , wherein, the data concentration module compressing the detection data comprises sorting and then combining the detection data; and the detection data are sorted based on sizes or numbers of the detection data.

11. The data concentration system of claim 1 , further comprising a clock management module, wherein:
the clock management module is electrically connected to the multi-channel data receiving module, the data concentration module, and the data transmission module respectively, and is configured to provide a clock signal respectively for the multi-channel data receiving module, the data concentration module, and the data transmission module.

12. The data concentration system of claim 1 , further comprising a power management module, wherein:
the power management module is electrically connected to the multi-channel data receiving module, the data concentration module, and the data transmission module, and is configured to supply power to the multi-channel data receiving module, the data concentration module, and the data transmission module.

13. A timing control method for the data concentration system of claim 1 , comprising:
transmitting the acquisition instruction from the multi-channel data receiving module to the plurality of probes, to enable the multi-channel data receiving module to acquire the detection data via the plurality of probes;
transmitting a triggering instruction from the multi-channel data receiving module to the data concentration module;
receiving, by the data concentration module, the detection data from the plurality of probes according to the triggering instruction, compressing the detection data, and transmitting the compressed detection data to a single-channel data transmission module.

14. The timing control method of claim 13 , comprising timings for the single-channel data transmission module and timings for the multi-channel data receiving module.

15. The timing control method of claim 14 , wherein, the timings for the multi-channel data receiving module comprise timings for three channels that respectively are data receiving channels 1 , 2 , and 8 .

16. The timing control method of claim 14 , wherein, the timings for the single-channel data transmission module comprise: timings of operation instructions transmitted from a data storage module to the single-channel data transmission module, and timings of sending the compressed detection data from the single-channel data transmission module to the data storage module.

17. The timing control method of claim 14 , wherein each operation instruction is a falling edge of a pulse lasting for a short duration of 10 μs.

18. The timing control method of claim 16 , wherein each operation instruction simultaneously triggers steps of:
transmitting, by the multi-channel data receiving module, the acquisition instruction simultaneously to the plurality of probes;
the multi-channel data receiving module entering a data receiving mode to sequentially receive the detection data from each of the plurality of probes;
transmitting, by the single-channel data transmission module, the compressed detection data of a last packet to the data storage module.

19. The timing control method of claim 18 , wherein the acquisition instruction is a falling edge of a pulse having a duration of 10 μs.

Assignees

• Univ Tsinghua

Inventors

• Guo jing-bo
• Hu tie-hua
• Piao Guan-Yu

Classifications

• H04L5/14 Primary

  Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex · CPC title

• F17D5/005

  of gas pipelines, e.g. alarm · CPC title

• G08C19/24

  using time shift of pulses · CPC title

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• F17D5/06

  using electric or acoustic means · CPC title