Patent ID: 7423931
Filing Date: 2008-09-09
Classification: G01F,H04B

Abstract:
1. A communication apparatus that provides a system for providing high data transfer acoustic communication of information in a network of pipes that form a pipeline containing a fluid by transmitting the information through the fluid from a first location in the network of pipes that form a pipeline to a remote second location in the network of pipes that form a pipeline, comprising: an external source that supplies a data signal containing the information to be transmitted through the fluid from the first location in the network of pipes that form a pipeline to the remote second location in the network of pipes that form a pipeline, a transmitting system positioned at the first location in the network of pipes that form a pipeline and connected to said external source and the fluid in the network of pipes that form a pipeline, said transmitting system including an acoustic transmitter with a frequency in the range of 3-100 kHz positioned at the first location in the network of pipes that form a pipeline and connected to said external source and the fluid in the network of pipes that form a pipeline that receives said data signal containing the information and transmits said data signal containing the information in the form of a signal in the frequency range of 3-100 kHz into the fluid in the network of pipes that form a pipeline containing the fluid to initiate transmission of the information from the first location in the network of pipes that form a pipeline, wherein said data signal propagates through the fluid in the network of pipes that form a pipeline from the first location in the network of pipes that form a pipeline to the remote second location in the network of pipes that form a pipeline, and an independent receiver and processor system located at the remote second location in the network of pipes that form a pipeline and connected to the fluid in the network of pipes that form a pipeline containing the fluid that receives said data signal and process said data signal containing the information, wherein the information is transmitted through the fluid from the first location in the network of pipes that form a pipeline to the remote second location in the network of pipes that form a pipeline and is used for a desired application.