Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim
262 words
A method of providing a series of flyer groups made up of selected but flexible numbers of geophone flyers per group connected to a remote data acquisition and telemetering circuit (RDATC) equipped to receive a number of channels of information simultaneously comprising the steps of: 1. laying out a series of C flyer-jumpers where C is any whole positive number equal to the number of flyer-jumpers selected per group, and where each of said series of flyer-jumper comprises a central geophone cable segment including N+1 conductors where N is any even positive number greater than two and a series of interconnected geophones therein; a plurality of N/2 branch cable segments connected at each end of certain of said N+1 conductors of said central cable segment; and a series of N/2 hermaphroditic connectors connected to said plurality of N/2 branch cable segments, each of said hermaphroditic connectors having an outer housing, but matched at the opposite end to a like colored and similarly electrically connected connector, whereby at least one paired, like color-coded set of connectors electrically connect to said geophones and at least another pair of like color-coded set of connectors electrically connected to certain N+1 conductors which are electrically isolated from said geophones, said at least another set of connectors having color codes that are distinct from that of said one set of connectors; 2. between each adjacent flyer-jumpers of any C serially arranged flyer-jumpers, connecting like-colored hermaphroditic connectors together to form a geophone flyer group, providing at least a summed signal output per group at an output end thereof; and
Claim 2
Independent Claim
262 words
A method of providing a series of flyer groups made up of selected but flexible numbers of geophone flyers per group connected to a remote data acquisition and telemetering circuit (RDATC) equipped to receive a number of channels of information simultaneously comprising the steps of: 1. laying out a series of C flyer-jumpers where C is any whole positive number equal to the number of flyer-jumpers selected per group, and where each of said series of flyer-jumper comprises a central geophone cable segment including N+1 conductors where N is any even positive number greater than two and a series of interconnected geophones therein; a plurality of N/2 branch cable segments connected at each end of certain of said N+1 conductors of said central cable segment; and a series of N/2 hermaphroditic connectors connected to said plurality of N/2 branch cable segments, each of said hermaphroditic connectors having an outer housing, but matched at the opposite end to a like colored and similarly electrically connected connector, whereby at least one paired, like color-coded set of connectors electrically connect to said geophones and at least another pair of like color-coded set of connectors electrically connected to certain N+1 conductors which are electrically isolated from said geophones, said at least another set of connectors having color codes that are distinct from that of said one set of connectors; 2. between each adjacent flyer-jumpers of any C serially arranged flyer-jumpers, connecting like-colored hermaphroditic connectors together to form a geophone flyer group, providing at least a summed signal output per group at an output end thereof; and
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
36 words
at said output end of each flyer group, connecting un-alike color-coded hermaphroditic connectors in a pattern repeated up-survey and down-survey toward said RDATC where final connection is provided to provide input channel information to said RDATC.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
36 words
at said output end of each flyer group, connecting un-alike color-coded hermaphroditic connectors in a pattern repeated up-survey and down-survey toward said RDATC where final connection is provided to provide input channel information to said RDATC.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
16 words
The method of claim 1 in which N is equal to 4 and C is 2.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
16 words
The flyer-jumper of claim 1 in which N is equal to 6 and C is 2.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
25 words
The method of claim 1 in which each of said hermaphroditic connectors has an outer housing of a color selected from N/2 possible color codes.