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6658931 |
Fluid flow sensing and control method and apparatus
A gas mass flow sensor or probe ( 35, 37, 39 ) of an air flow sensing and control system ( 17, 19, 21 ) based upon hot-wire type devices where flow sensing is achieved by controlling the difference...
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6553828 |
Cooled dual element thermocouple computer and flow velocity measurement method
Embodiments of a flowmeter and velocity measurement method are described, which include preferably a dual element thermocouple that is immersed in a flowing fluid and a computer that processes,...
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6318168 |
Thermal dispersion probe with microcomputer controller
Thermal dispersion probes used as flowrate sensors in process control of a medium heated by a heater. The device includes a reference temperature sensor for producing an electrical signal...
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5682899 |
Apparatus and method for continuous cardiac output monitoring
A fluid volume flow monitoring apparatus, fluid volume flow monitoring system and process of monitoring fluid volume flow are disclosed. The fluid volume flow monitoring apparatus includes a...
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5629481 |
Mass air flow measurement system and method
A mass air flow measurement system comprising a sensing device located in an air flow providing an output signal relational to an mount of mass air flow past the device, wherein the sensing device...
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5515295 |
Methods and systems for fluid identification and flow rate determination
Methods and systems for determining the identity and flow rate of a fluid are provided. Linearized output signals are provided. To determine fluid flow, a test fluid is passed through a conduit. A...
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5461910 |
Fluid flow direction and velocity monitor
A fluid flow detection monitor (80), particularly useful in monitoring pressure differentials between a controlled environment and its surroundings, includes a heat source (1) situated between an...
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5460039 |
Flow sensor system
A system for measuring the flow rate of gas includes a flow head having a sensor thermoresistor mounted transversely to the flow of gas, and a reference thermoresistor mounted parallel to the flow...
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5383357 |
Mass air flow sensor device
A mass air flow sensor device for determining the mass of air flowing therethrough is operatively associated with an engine control module of an internal combustion engine which uses data...
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5369994 |
Flow sensor
The invention is directed to a flow sensor having a heater, two temperature measuring sensors, a heater temperature sensor and a medium temperature sensor. A control circuit is provided which...
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5216743 |
Thermo-plastic heat exchanger
The present invention provides a flow-through instantaneous fluid heater system designed to satisfy the need for a heater not limited by being connected to a storage tank and which can be made...
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5208650 |
Thermal dilation fiber optical flow sensor
A thermal dilation type optical flow sensor includes an optical heating sce for heating a flowing fluid and a sensor disposed in a downstream direction from said heating source wherein the sensor...
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5207227 |
Multiprobes with thermal diffusion flow monitor
A single probe with thermal diffusion flow monitor (hereinafter known as "SPTDFM") that has improved reliability, smaller overall size, simpler method of sensor positioning, better compatibility...
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5193388 |
Method and apparatus for determining the flow rate of a flowing fluid mass
A method and apparatus controls the temperature of a precision resistor and, in turn, measures the flow rate of a flowing fluid mass. The precision resistor is a hot wire or hot film of an air mass...
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5184509 |
Method and apparatus for measuring the air flow in the air intake passage of an internal combustion engine
A method and a circuit arrangement for measuring the air flow in the air intake passage of an internal combustion engine provide an output pulse signal which can be easily processed in digital...
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5177696 |
Method of determination of gas properties at reference conditions
A method of determination of gas properties at reference conditions of temperature and pressure. This determination is needed in systems including mass flow meters, combustion control systems, gas...
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5150611 |
Flow sensor
An apparatus for measuring the mass flow rate of air has a resistance bridge circuit, whose diagonal voltage is applied to a switching control element, which is in turn supplied with voltage pulses...
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5048332 |
Flow meter for measuring fluid flow with multiple temperature sensors
A part of a tube, through which a fluid passes, is cooled by means of an electronic cooling element and a flow rate of the fluid is measured on the basis of a temperature of a surface of the tube...
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4947889 |
Method of measuring flow rate and flow meter for use in said method as well as apparatus for controlling flow rate of liquid using said flow meter
A part of a tube, through which a fluid passes, is cooled by means of an electronic cooling element and a flow rate of the fluid is measured on the basis of a temperature of a surface of the tube...
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4944035 |
Measurement of thermal conductivity and specific heat
A method and apparatus for determining both the thermal conductivity, k, and specific heat, c p , of a fluid of interest are disclosed. An embodiment uses proximately positioned resistive heater...
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4914742 |
Thin film orthogonal microsensor for air flow and method
A microbridge air flow sensor which has a sealed etched cavity beneath the silicon nitride diaphragm so that the cavity is not susceptible to contamination from residual films or other material...
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4884443 |
Control and detection circuitry for mass airflow sensors
A mass airflow sensor is disclosed which uses a small, thin dielectric diaphragm providing good thermal isolation for thin-film heating and temperature sensing elements, resulting in high flow...
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4881407 |
Hot wire air flow meter
The bobbin (21) of the heating resistor (1) is made by zirconia or glass fiber. On the surface of the bobbin, a platinum film (31) or a platinum wire (23) are formed. At both ends of the heating...
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4843881 |
Fluid flow sensor system
A mass flow sensing system in which two heating/sensing coils are disposed about a conduit through which the fluid passes, the coils being located up and down stream along the conduit and close...
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4833912 |
Flow measuring apparatus
A flow measuring apparatus includes a resistance layer for detecting a flow rate within a passage and an additional resistance layer for burning off deposits formed by suspended particles the like,...
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4831876 |
Measurement probe
In a measurement probe for measuring the mass of a flowing fluid, particularly the intake air of an internal-combustion engine, having at least one temperature-dependent first resistor which is...
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4817427 |
Device for measuring water flow rate in plant stem
The disclosed device includes a heater mounted on a plant stem for generating a heat flow Q so as to give a heat supply (Q-Q o ) to water flow in the stem, Q o being heat loss, a means for...
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4745805 |
Process and device for the measurement of the flow of raw sap in the stem of a plant such as a tree
A process for the measurement of the flow of raw sap in the stem of a tree or other plant, and a device for the embodiment of the process. According to this process, two holes of small diameter are...
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4744246 |
Flow sensor on insulator
A flow sensor on a thermally insulating substrate is provided with improved thermal conductance and ruggedness to hostile environments. The flow sensor includes a pn junction temperature sensing...
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4739657 |
Resistance with linear temperature coefficient
The sensors and heater of a microbridge flow sensor are each compensated for non-linear curvature of the resistance versus temperature curve by the use of a section of permalloy in series with a...
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4739656 |
Flow sensing device
A fluid flow sensing device comprises first and second p-n junctions, one of which is arranged to be disposed in the fluid flow to be measured and the other of which is arranged to be disposed at a...
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4712996 |
Gas burner control system with mass flow sensor
A gas burner control system for controlling operation of a furnace having a blower fluidically connected to the combustion chamber of the furnace utilizes a mass flow sensor for preventing or...
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4693116 |
Semiconductor-chip gas-flow measuring apparatus
A gas-flow measuring apparatus including a semiconductor chip and a sensing circuit. The semiconductor chip includes an electric heater and two temperature-detecting elements. One of the...
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4688425 |
Direct-heated flow measuring apparatus having film resistor
In a direct-heated flow measuring apparatus including an electric heater of a film resistor type and a temperature-detecting resistor for detecting the temperature within a passage, the flow rate...
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4688424 |
Apparatus for measuring air quantity
An apparatus for measuring the rate of flow of a fluid such as for measuring the quantities of intake air of internal combustion engines. The apparatus includes a first conductive film and a second...
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4683858 |
Apparatus for controlling engine
In an apparatus for controlling an engine, as an air flow sensor for measuring intake air flow quantity, a heater resistor having temperature-resistance characteristic and a temperature sensitive...
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4682496 |
Flow rate detecting apparatus having semiconductor chips
A semiconductor type flow rate detecting apparatus having first and second control units arranged at upstream and downstream positions respectively in a flow stream to be measured and an operation...
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4571991 |
Air flow measuring apparatus
An air flow detecting element is located in the air flow to be measured. This air flow detecting element comprises a heater made of resistant material having a positive temperature coefficient and...
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4566320 |
Fluid flow sensing means with ambient temperature compensation
A flow sensing or differential pressure sensing device utilizing a pair of bridges is disclosed. A first bridge operates a heating element and a temperature dependent resistor to in turn control an...
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4478077 |
Flow sensor
A flow sensor comprising a pair of thin film heat sensors and a thin film heater is disclosed. The flow sensor further comprises a semiconductor body with a depression therein and structure...
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4468963 |
Method and apparatus for measuring the mass of a pulsating medium flowing in a flow cross section
A method and apparatus are proposed for measuring the mass of a pulsating medium flowing in a flow cross section, in particular for measuring the aspirated air mass of internal combustion engines....
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4437345 |
Gas flow measuring device
A gas flow measuring device has a measuring circuit for measuring the flow of gas based on the output signals of an electric heater and a first and a second temperature dependent resistor. In the...
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4417471 |
Gas flow measuring device
A first temperature dependent resistor and a second temperature dependent resistor are disposed within a single gas passage defined by a branch pipe extending into a conduit for a gas whose flow...
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4409828 |
Gas flow measuring device
An electric heater connected between first and second temperature dependent resistors provided inside a pipe through which the gas the flow of which is to be measured is heated for the measurement...
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4391132 |
Gas flow measuring apparatus
A gas flow measuring apparatus includes first and second temperature dependent resistors located in a gas tube respectively downstream and upstream of an electric heater which is also located in...
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4332157 |
Pyroelectric anemometer
Disclosed is a pyroelectric anemometer capable of providing an accurate indication of fluid flow rate. A pyroelectric substrate has a heater element located essentially transverse to the fluid flow...
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4304129 |
Gas flow measuring apparatus
A flow measuring pipe includes therein an electric heater and a temperature dependent resistor positioned downstream of the electric heater. The lines of the electric heater are arranged in a...
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4043195 |
Digital thermodynamic flow-meter
An apparatus is disclosed for measuring instantaneous rate of flow and total flow of a fluid. The data are obtained by measuring the quantity of energy necessary to replace an equivalent amount of...
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4041757 |
Fluid flowmeter
Apparatus for measuring the flow of fluid through a main supply line having a restrictive element therein to develop a pressure drop. A shunt fluid flow path bypasses this element. The shunt path...
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3975951 |
Intake-air amount detecting system for an internal combustion engine
There is provided an intake-air amount detecting system for an internal combustion engine in which a first temperature of an intake air for an internal combustion engine is measured, the intake-air...
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