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7424377 Power reduction method in an electronic counter  
A method for operating an electronic counter with reduced power consumption has been developed. The electronic counter is divided into multiple segments that are ordered according to their...
7424375 Tidal seepage meter  
A method and apparatus for tidal seepage meters. The meter includes a power supply, controller, motor, selector valve, seepage chamber and at least two sample containers. The controller is...
7421350 Meter electronics and method for detecting a residual material in a flow meter assembly  
A meter electronics and method for detecting a residual material in a flow meter assembly are provided according to the invention. The meter electronics includes a processing system adapted to...
7409871 Mass flow meter or controller with inclination sensor  
A thermal mass flow meter associated with an inclination sensor that detects an angle of inclination of at least one portion of a thermal mass flow sensor relative to at least one reference axis....
7412336 Attitude insensitive flow device system and method  
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for attitude insensitive flow devices. The system can include a flow device having a processor and a computer readable medium accessible by the processor...
7409300 Ultrasonic flow-velocity distribution meter/flowmeter, method of ultrasonically measuring flow velocity distribution/flowrate, program for ultrasonically measuring flow velocity distribution/flowrate  
An ultrasonic flowmeter includes: an emission trigger oscillator outputting a trigger signal; an ultrasonic oscillator generating and outputting ultrasonic pulses by the trigger signal from the...
7403862 Method for operating a process-measuring device  
The process measuring device comprises a flow sensor having a measuring tube, a sensor arrangement for producing a measurement signal, and an evaluation and operating circuit. The method serves to...
7403863 Correlation method for measurements of total and fractional immiscible media flow rates and a device for its embodiment  
A correlation method for measuring total and fractional flow rates of multiphase immiscible media comprises identifying two control sections along the multiphase flow, and scanning each control...
7400985 Apparatus having an array of clamp on piezoelectric film sensors for measuring parameters of a process flow within a pipe  
A apparatus 10,110,170 is provided that measures the speed of sound and/or vortical disturbances propagating in a single phase fluid flow and/or multiphase mixture to determine parameters, such...
7398165 Intelligent signal processor for vortex flowmeter  
The present invention discloses an intelligent signal processor of a vortex flowmeter, the signal processor mainly adopts a digital signal processor structure for processing a flow rate of a fluid....
7389187 Apparatus and method using an array of ultrasonic sensors for determining the velocity of a fluid within a pipe  
An apparatus and method for measuring the flow velocity of a fluid flowing through a pipe that includes an array of at least two ultrasonic sensor units (with as many as 16 sensor units) disposed...
7379827 Fluid flow monitoring system  
A fluid flow monitoring and evaluation system providing high accuracy for fluid flow systems having low volumes and high pressure includes fluid flow sensors mounted on positive displacement...
7376520 System and method for gas flow verification  
A gas flow rate verification apparatus is provided for shared use in a multiple tool semiconductor processing platform. The gas flow rate verification apparatus is defined to measure a pressure...
7376521 Flow computer with networked I/O modules  
A flow computer is operable to interface with a first instrument suite associated with a first flow monitoring system. The flow computer includes a network, a first input/output (I/O) block, and a...
7376522 Method and system for determining the direction of fluid flow  
In an exemplary implementation of a method and system for determining the direction of fluid flow, one or more sound transducers are positioned in proximity to a conduit, each such sound transducer...
7373261 Portable hydrant meter and system of use thereof  
The meter system having a portable water meter that is releaseably mountable onto a discharge nozzle of the fire hydrant and a flow sensor that senses the water flow rate passing therethrough the...
7369949 Electromagnetic flowmeter  
An electromagnetic flowmeter includes a measuring tube, an electrode, an exciting unit, a signal conversion unit, and a flow rate calculating unit. The signal conversion unit extracts a ∂A/∂t...
7366621 Program product to measure density, specific gravity, and flow rate of fluids  
Program product to measure fluid flow characteristics in a pipeline is provided. A vortex-shedding body is positioned within the pipeline to form vortices. A vortex meter can include a vortex...
7363183 Method for correcting sensor signal  
The invention provides a method of compensating for the error of a signal indicative of the mass of air flow output from an air mass flow sensor for an internal combustion engine, the method...
7363112 Digital moisture monitor controller with wide applications soil, and hydroponics moisture sensors, and optional X10 multi-sensor, multi-pump controller  
Utilizing the latest microprocessor technology, the digital moisture monitor controller along with its wide applications alternating current conduction moisture sensors and optional X10 multi...
7353119 Reduced noise sensitivity in magnetic flowmeter  
A magnetic flowmeter for measuring flow of a process fluid includes a coil configured to apply a magnetic field to the process fluid. Electrodes are arranged to sense a fluid voltage signal related...
7349813 Fault tolerant power system architecture for fluid flow measurement systems  
To provide a fault-tolerant architecture to supply electrical operating power in fluid flow measurement applications, apparatus and associated systems, computer program products, and methods...
7349814 Measurement method and arrangement  
The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for measuring a liquid flow in connection with a pump system. The invention is preferably implemented in a pump system where the pump ( 240 ) is...
7346434 Electronically controlled fluid limiting apparatus and method for use thereof  
A flow control apparatus and method for operating the apparatus are disclosed. The flow control apparatus comprises a main supply line, a first valve, a first pressure transducer, a rotary meter, a...
7342504 Monitoring system and method  
A monitoring system includes one or more monitoring devices, positioned in sewer manholes, storm drains, etc., and a remote monitoring station that communicates wirelessly therewith. The monitoring...
7340353 Dual function flow measurement apparatus having an array of sensors  
A dual function flow measurement apparatus is provided that combines the functionality of an apparatus that measures the speed of sound propagating through a fluid flowing within a pipe, and...
7333899 Fluid flow rate sensor and method of operation  
A thermo-anemometer-type fluid flow rate sensor design and a method for its operation that overcome the response time limitations of prior known fluid flow rate sensors is disclosed. The fluid flow...
7330797 Apparatus and method for measuring settlement of solids in a multiphase flow  
A method and apparatus for measuring a parameter of a flow passing through a pipe is provided, wherein the apparatus includes at least two spatial array of sensors disposed at different axial...
7330796 Methods and apparatus for using water use signatures and water pressure in improving water use efficiency  
A method to identify a water flow anomaly in a system having first and second water using devices to generate baseline data that preferably has water use signatures and corresponding water pressure...
7328112 Method for operating a magneto-inductive flow meter  
A method of operating a magneto-inductive flow meter in which the damping constant for processing of measurement signal values is automatically increased during a cleaning procedure, in order that,...
7324901 Water measurement auto-networks  
Water measurement auto-networks and methods of operation are disclosed herein. An exemplary method may include determining a water level at a first water measurement station in an auto-network. The...
7324900 Vehicle passenger restraint system with distributed sensors  
A distributed sensing system and method improves sensing of events that may require restraint deployment in a vehicle by distinguishing between deployment events and non-deployment events using...
7321833 Fluid flow rate sensor  
A valve body defines an inlet, an outlet, a valving cavity disposed between the inlet and outlet and a valving surface between the inlet and the outlet. A valve is moveable to a position away from...
7310582 Electromagnetic flow meter with reduced power consumption and reduced exciting current  
An electromagnetic flow meter of a switching control system in which a DC voltage is applied to an exciting coil via switching elements, a direction of an exciting current flowing through the...
7308374 Method for siting detectors within a facility  
A method, system and article of manufacture of siting one or more detectors in a facility represented with zones are provided. Signals S i,j representing an effect in zone j in response to a...
7305309 Transmission measuring system with high time resolution  
A transmission measuring system includes a subject for transmission measurement for outputting, in response to a start signal for measurement from a central processing unit, an output signal...
7299140 Method and system for multi-path ultrasonic flow measurement of partially developed flow profiles  
A method for determining a velocity of a flowing fluid includes estimating a Reynolds number for the flowing fluid; comparing the estimated Reynolds number with a selected range; and determining...
7299139 Measuring gas meter and volume corrector accuracy  
Systems, apparatus, methods, and computer program products relate to measuring the combined accuracy of a gas meter and a volume corrector as a system. The measurement is performed with a transfer...
7295933 Configurable multi-function flow measurement apparatus having an array of sensors  
A configurable multi-function flow measurement apparatus is provided that can selectably function to measure the speed of sound propagating through a fluid flowing within a pipe and/or to measure...
7295932 Control system and technique for particulate collection systems  
Methods are provided for monitoring particulate flow distribution throughout particulate collection systems that employ collection vessels such as hoppers and feeders. The collection vessels are...
7293470 Two-wire bus instrument  
A two-wire bus instrument ( 500 ) adapted for use with a two-wire bus ( 308 ) is provided according to an embodiment of the invention. An instrument element ( 304 ) receives a third current and...
7295934 Flow meter performance monitoring system  
Apparatus and associated systems, methods and computer program products relate to monitoring the performance of an operating gas meter by automatic and substantially continuous differential...
7289917 Coriolis flow meter and method for flow measurement  
A Coriolis flow meter, which includes: at least one measuring tube, which is excited to oscillate during measurement operation, and through which a medium flows, first and second sensors for...
7277802 Method and system for providing a linear signal from a mass flow transducer  
A method and system for providing a linear signal from mass flow transducer approximates the error from the original raw signal using discrete sine functions and subtracts the approximated error...
7275013 Plasma anemometer and method for using same  
Methods and systems are described for a system for obtaining information regarding a flow. These methods and systems comprise a signal generator configured to generate an alternating current signal...
7272512 Flow sensor signal conversion  
A method of obtaining at least one representation of a characteristic function of a sensor from a test fluid during calibration of the sensor according to a sensor model having a transfer function...
7265544 Method and device for detecting physical-chemical states on measuring electrodes of a flowmeter  
A method and device for obtaining an interference free measurement from a flowmeter. The flowmeter includes a measuring tube through which a flowable medium flows through a magnetic field generated...
7260486 Method for operating and/or reviewing a magneto-inductive flow meter  
A flow meter includes a measuring tube for conveying a fluid to be measured and a magnetic field system, which has at least one field coil, through which an exciter current (I M ) flows, at least...
7257495 Flow meter filter system and method  
A flow meter filter system ( 200 ) according to an embodiment of the invention includes a noise pass filter ( 203 ) configured to receive a first version of a flow meter signal and filter out the...
7254518 Pressure transmitter with diagnostics  
In one embodiment, a pressure transmitter is provided which diagnoses the condition of a primary element and/or an impulse line which connects to a pressure sensor. A difference circuit coupled to...