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7035741 Systems and methods for accurately measuring fluid  
The present invention relates to systems and methods for measuring the amount of fluid. A fluid source is in fluid communication with a measuring system. The fluid source includes a non-collapsible...
7028561 Fuel dispenser fuel meter error detection device, system and method  
A flow switch used in conjunction with a fuel meter in a fuel dispenser to determine when fuel is flowing. A flow switch can only be activated if fuel is flowing through the flow path of the flow...
7024317 Apparatus and method for fuel measurement and accountability  
A system for establishing fuel accountability and optimization for a vehicle. The apparatus can include a fuel tank containing hydrocarbon fuels operably engaged to a fuel sensor, an engine...
7024316 Transiently dynamic flow cytometer analysis system  
A flow cytometry apparatus and methods to process information incident to particles or cells entrained in a sheath fluid stream allowing assessment, differentiation, assignment, and separation of...
7010464 Mobile HVAC cavity test device, method, and computer product  
A mobile testing apparatus, method, and computer product that performs high speed testing of mobile pressure devices using high speed totalization, where testing of multiple devices may be done...
7003418 Methods and systems for temperature compensation of physical property sensors  
Temperature compensation methods for physical property sensors are disclosed herein, based on a simple bridge circuit. An imbalance of the bridge circuit can be driven to a zero value, while a...
6999901 In-place dynamically re-sizeable persistent historical database  
The specification discloses a method of maintaining a historical database of information. The method describes up to eleven segments, each segment corresponding possibly to a different data logging...
6996490 Thermal comfort sensor device and an anthropomorphic dummy for simulating heat exchange which includes a plurality of such devices  
The sensor device (S), in particular for use in a simulator dummy of an anthropomorphic type (M), includes a heat insulating support structure ( 1 ) with two measuring areas ( 1 d ; 1 e ) formed on...
6993445 Vortex flowmeter  
A process variable transmitter, implemented in a dual PLL structure, includes a first PLL having a first bandwidth producing a first output signal, and a second PLL having a second bandwidth...
6990414 Electronic gas flow measurement and recording device  
An electronic flow measurement device (EFM), for use in conjunction with a flow meter in a pressurized gas line, has a microprocessor and read-only memory (ROM), and calculates and records gas flow...
6983208 Method and apparatus for combined measurements of concentration, distribution and flow velocity of suspended solids  
A remote sensor and associated data processor, performs concurrent analysis of backscattered signals from a multi-beam acoustic Doppler emitter/receiver positioned against the inside wall of a...
6983214 Flow rate measuring method and flow-meter  
A flowmeter including a flow rate detection circuit including a thermal flow rate sensor ( 10 ) disposed in a measurement flow passage through which fluid to be measured passes, a temperature...
6973839 Electromagnetic flow meter having processing means resolving output data into a non-flow waveform component  
A method of obtaining a measure of flow from an electromagnetic flow meter is disclosed. A shaped excitation waveform is applied to the flow meter and an output is received from the meter. The...
6968283 Gas flow meter  
A gas flow meter having a gas flow detection circuit for detecting a current flowing through a resistor installed in a gas passage and a voltage generated across the resistor and outputting a...
6968276 System for processing measuring signals from a sensor  
A system for processing the measuring signals from a sensor 12 , including of a first micro-controller 10 having an input for the sensor data, a first memory 18, 19 and a first processor 16 ,...
6963808 Methods and apparatus for using water use signatures in improving water use efficiency  
The present invention provides systems and methods that identify a flow anomaly to an operator or other person by: executing a first device of a plurality of water using devices; receiving flow...
6963810 Method and system for locating critical flow feature indicators in three dimensional flow regimes  
A method for locating two dimensional critical flow features on a surface of a three dimensional body immersed in a fluid stream is presented. The method includes applying a hot film sensor array...
6962087 Electromagnetic flow meter  
There is described herein a method of obtaining a measure of flow from an electromagnetic flow meter having at least one field generating coil and potential sensing electrodes. A composite...
6963809 Gas meter  
A gas meter for determining a gas mixture consumption is revealed which determines sensor signal values proportional to a flow rate, this gas meter being calibrated as an energy measuring unit. The...
6954678 Artificial intelligence system for track defect problem solving  
A system and method facilitating lithography defect solution generation is provided. The invention includes a defect solution component and a defect alert component. The defect solution component...
6948508 Apparatus and method for self-calibration of mass flow controller  
A mass flow controller includes a mass flow sensor and a calibrator configured to perform a self-calibration on the mass flow controller. The calibrator generates flow measurements that are used as...
6950759 Apparatus and method for determining the amount of flow of a substance through a tube/pipe  
A sensor system for monitoring fluid flow through a tube/pipe has one or more sensors coupled to the tube/piping. An I/O board is coupled to the sensor for receiving measurement signals from the...
6947862 Method for simulating slurry flow for a grooved polishing pad  
A method for determining the flow of a fluid ( 60 ) in a gap ( 64 ) between a pad ( 48 ) and a substrate ( 12 ) includes the step of utilizing a hybrid Navier-Stokes/lubrication formulation to...
6947851 Transceiver circuit for an ultrasonic flowmeter  
A transmitting and receiving circuit for an ultrasonic flowmeter. In such circuits, an ultrasonic transducer is typically used as both transmitter and receiver. This is obtained by using switching...
6941821 Ultrasonic flowmeter including stable flow rate calculation means based on instantaneous flow rate  
In accordance with one embodiment, a flow meter of the present invention includes: transmission/reception means provided in a flow path for performing transmission/reception using a state change of...
6935191 Fuel dispenser fuel flow meter device, system and method  
A flow switch used on conjunction with a fuel flow meter in a fuel dispenser to determine when fuel flow rate signals form a fuel flow meter should be ignored in the calculation of flow rate and/or...
6937943 Device and method for system and process supervision in a magneto-inductive sensor  
The invention relates to a method and to a device for system and process supervision in a magneto-inductive sensor. A medium flows through a measuring tube substantially in the direction of the...
6931305 Apparatus for monitoring and controlling pump and valve system operations  
A centralized monitoring and control unit for a fluid transfer facility has a connective interface providing signal connectivity to overfill and ground circuitry in individual fill lanes, to pump...
6928369 Ultrasonic current meter  
The present invention provides a small, low power consumption ultrasonic flow velocity meter. The burst signal generation section 110 generates two kinds of burst signals with a phase difference...
6925398 Water measurement apparatus and methods  
Water measurement apparatus and methods of operation. An exemplary implementation of water measurement apparatus comprises a measurement circuit outputting a voltage. A processor is operatively...
6920400 Method and apparatus for detecting a plugged port  
A method and apparatus for detecting and clearing a plugged sensor port in a system containing a fluid being monitored through the sensor port. The method comprises establishing a range beyond...
6917886 Microflow based differential pressure sensor  
A differential pressure sensor based on pressure induced micro-flow that includes two connecting hoses that are considered when the pressure sensor is calibrated. The inventive differential...
6907353 Apparatus and method for measuring fluid characteristics  
A sensing element for use with a controller adapted to receive input signals corresponding to the sensing element, the sensing element having: a housing defining a conduit adapted to be in fluid...
6907361 Ultrasonic flow-measuring method  
An ultrasonic flow-measuring method determines the flow rate of a medium flowing through a line is determined by measuring the runtime of an ultrasonic signal that travels from a first ultrasonic...
6904379 Thermal air flowmeter  
A thermal type air flowmeter arranges a temperature-dependent heating resistance element in an air flow path and measures the air flow rate from the output of a gauge circuit containing the heating...
6895351 Regulator flow measurement apparatus  
A method and an apparatus for determining fluid flow through a pressure regulator is disclosed. The pressure regulator is disposed in a fluid flow passage and has a throttling element moveable in...
6882941 Tamper proof meter  
A fuel dispenser with a flow meter prevents fraud in the form of flow meter replacement by storing a unique identifier in the memory associated with the flow meter. The unique identifier is stored...
6876933 Method and an apparatus for estimating an amount of drawn air of a cylinder of an internal-combustion engine and a method and an apparatus for controlling the amount  
A method and an apparatus for estimating an amount of drawn air of a cylinder and a method and an apparatus for controlling the amount of drawn air, are presented. An estimated value of an amount...
6868346 Minute ventilation sensor with automatic high pass filter adjustment  
A minute ventilation sensing device in which transthoracic impedance is measured to generate an impedance signal from which a ventilation signal is derived, where the ventilation signal is...
6865495 Flow metering  
In order to reduce the influence of fluid velocity on a measurement of a concentration characteristic of a fluid, the magnitude of an r.m.s. signal V derived from a voltage induced in a sensor...
6853928 Two-wire electromagnetic flowmeter  
In a two-wire electromagnetic flowmeter, an exciting coil generates a magnetic field in a direction perpendicular to the flowing direction of a fluid that flows through a measurement tube. A flow...
6850850 Fluid filter flowmeter self-generating power source system and method  
A flowmeter for metering the volume of flow of a fluid through a filter, to enable the level of filter usage to be indicated. A preset level of metered fluid flow volume indicates a corresponding...
6850849 Fluid flow monitor and control system  
A fluid flow monitoring, evaluation, and control system providing accurate dispensing of fluids in low volume, high pressure systems. The system includes one or more fluid flow sensors mounted on...
6847901 Electromagnetic flowmeter  
An electromagnetic flowmeter includes a exciting coil, exciting section, and arithmetic processing section. The exciting coil applies a magnetic field to a fluid flowing in a pipe line. The...
6843122 Mass flow controller for control purge and managing method of the same  
The present invention relates to a mass flow controller for a control purge and a managing method of the same. When a user sets the mode to a control purge mode capable of controlling a maximum...
6845330 Electromagnetic flowmeter  
An electromagnetic flowmeter includes a coil, exciting section, noise eliminating section, and arithmetic processing section. The coil applies a magnetic field to a fluid flowing in a pipe line....
6842705 Gas flow rate measuring device and gas flow rate measuring method  
A gas flow measuring device and gas flow measuring method are disclosed wherein specific gas component of measuring object gas or target gas composed of gas different from the specific gas...
6834241 Programmable coriolis flow meter electronics for outputting information over a single output port  
Flow meter electronics are described for providing a flow rate of a material flowing through a flow meter sensor of a Coriolis flow meter. The flow meter electronics comprise a processing system...
6832166 Method and system for analyzing the effect of inflow and infiltration on a sewer system  
A method and system for determining the effect of precipitation on flow within a sewer network includes identifying a modeled response of the sewer to a precipitation event. Once the modeled...
6829566 Pipe network optimization  
A method of optimizing a model of pipe network with respect to a predetermined criteria, such as costs. In particular, the method provides an efficient way of minimizing the cost of rehabilitating...