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7634946 |
Testing of bottomhole samplers using acoustics
A method for testing a hydrocarbon sample. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a sheath disposed about the hydrocarbon sample. The apparatus further comprises at least one set of acoustic...
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7632230 |
High resolution elastography using two step strain estimation
High-resolution elastography employs a multiple-step process in which successively finer samplings of data and smaller areas of data are evaluated to provide increasingly accurate displacement...
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7632231 |
Ultrasonic strain imaging device and method providing parallel displacement processing
A device for ultrasonic strain imaging computes displacement of tissue between a pre-deformation and post-deformation data set along columns to provide for independent calculations that may be...
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7628074 |
System and method for motion capture in natural environments
A system captures motion data in natural environments. A set of sources and a set of sensors are arranged on an object such as a human body. Each source emits ultrasonic signals detected by the...
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7618585 |
Fuel-concentration detecting and controlling device for fuel cell
An ultrasonic wave passes different fuels of different concentrations with different velocities. The present invention provides a detecting and controlling device where, by a non-touching method, a...
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7614303 |
Device for measuring bulk stress via insonification and method of use therefor
A configuration for use with a processor that incorporates a suite of agents in a “flat” hardware architecture and superimposes thereon a self-forming, self-healing, hierarchical architecture...
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7614302 |
Acoustic fluid analysis method
A method of analyzing acoustic data, that includes determining fluid sound speed through connate fluid. The method involves sampling the fluid, sending an acoustic signal into the fluid between a...
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7617071 |
Monitoring activity of a user in locomotion on foot
A user in locomotion during an outing may support at least one device to automatically measure amounts of time taken by the user to complete one or more distance intervals. The user device may...
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7603904 |
Method and apparatus for assessing or predicting the characteristics of wood
A method and apparatus for determining a characteristic, such as the stiffness, of a portion of a wood specimen characterised by the steps of a) producing an acoustic signal in the wood specimen...
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7591180 |
Contact inspection device, and contact inspection device and method for magnetic disk device
A contact inspection method and device in which a detection element which produces a detection output according to vibration of a rotating body is mounted on the rotating body to detect contact of...
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7591181 |
Ultrasonic testing of fitting assembly
Apparatus and method for determining relative and/or absolute axial position of a conduit end within a fluid coupling includes application of input ultrasonic energy in the form of transient shear...
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7587936 |
Apparatus and method for determining drilling fluid acoustic properties
Aspects of this invention include a downhole tool having first and second radially offset ultrasonic standoff sensors and a controller including instructions to determine at least one of a drilling...
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7584062 |
Sub-wavelength ultrasound characterization of composite material
An ultrasonic stimulus pulse is emitted incident to a laminar structure and recorded as pulse data. Echoes resulting from the stimulus pulse are recorded as echo data. One or more vectors are...
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7581444 |
Method and circuit arrangement for disturbance-free examination of objects by means of ultrasonic waves
A method and circuit arrangement for processing signals which are produced during disturbance-free examination of objects such as pipes or sheet metal, by reflecting ultrasonic waves at defective...
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7581445 |
Method for ultrasonic testing of fitting assembly
Apparatus and method for determining relative and/or absolute axial position of a conduit end within a fluid coupling includes application of input ultrasonic energy in the form of transient shear...
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7574894 |
ASM output ultrasonic oxygen sensor
A gas measuring method, apparatus and system for measuring a concentration of a gas of interest is disclosed. The gas concentration is based on a propagation delay of a sonic or ultrasonic wave as...
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7575371 |
Temperature sensor and extensometer
A thermometer and extensometer for cables and conductors is described. The travel time of one or more acoustic signals along a conductor is used to determine the temperature along the conductor and...
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7570893 |
Methods of monitoring a marking liquid, apparatuses for monitoring a marking liquid, and image transfer devices
A method and apparatus for monitoring marking liquid including a carrier liquid having solid particles therein. A transmitter emits an ultrasonic signal into the marking liquid. The ultrasonic...
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7562577 |
Acoustic testing apparatus for testing a laminate material and an acoustic testing method for testing a laminate material
An acoustic testing apparatus for testing a laminate material comprising at least one layer of a first material having a first velocity for a first vibration mode and at least one layer, adjacent...
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7549340 |
Apparatus for measuring vibration characteristic of head gimbal assembly
An apparatus surely measures the vibration characteristic of a head gimbal assembly and has a wide range of resonance frequencies to be set, the apparatus has a first laser Doppler vibrometer to...
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7546769 |
Ultrasonic inspection system and method
A method and system for microstructural evaluation and degradation evaluation of an object are provided. The method comprises insonifying at least one subvolume of the object with ultrasonic energy...
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7533571 |
Apparatus for making high-sensitivity measurements of various parameters, and sensors particularly useful in such apparatus
A sensor for sensing a predetermined parameter having a known relationship with respect to the transit time of an energy wave through a medium, includes a body of soft elastomeric material having...
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7523649 |
Method and apparatus for ultrasonic determination of hematocrit and hemoglobin concentrations
An ultrasonic field-portable system for accurately measuring hematocrit (HCT) and hemoglobin concentration (HGB) in small food samples. The system includes an analyzer ( 10 ) that allows extremely...
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7516022 |
Method and system for assessing quality of spot welds
A system and method for assessing the quality of spot weld joints between pieces of metal includes an ultrasound transducer probing a spot weld joint. The ultrasound transducer transmits ultrasonic...
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7505853 |
Inspection of composite materials
Since ultrasonic velocities in anisotropic media can change by a factor of 3 or more depending on the direction of propagation, accounting for these changes is extremely important. Also many...
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7490517 |
Sensor attachment structure and ultrasonic sensing device
A sensor attachment structure includes a sound receiving member for receiving an ultrasound, an ultrasonic sensor attached to the sound receiving member. The ultrasonic sensor includes a...
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7487679 |
Vehicle vibration analyzer
A diagnostic vibration analyzing system and method for measuring and characterizing both linear and torsional vibrations in a vehicle or a piece of industrial equipment (collectively a...
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7481114 |
Noninvasive measurement of fluid characteristics using reversibly deformed conduit
An apparatus for determining a characteristic for a fluid in a tube, the apparatus including a force applying system to cause a change in a transverse dimension of a segment of the tube, wherein...
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7475596 |
Non-destructive testing of pipes
To perform a non-destructive condition assessment of a pipe carrying a fluid, an actual value representative of the propagation velocity of an acoustic disturbance propagating between two...
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7469589 |
Method and device for determining the limpness of sheet material by means of ultra-sound
The invention relates to an apparatus used in a method for determining the limpness of sheet material, in particular of bank notes, wherein the sheet material is irradiated with sound waves, sound...
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7464594 |
System and method for sensing a paper roll ultrasonically
A method for sensing paper on a paper roll is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting an ultrasonic signal into the paper roll and detecting an ultrasonic return echo transmit signal from the...
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7454972 |
Method and apparatus for acoustically weighing moving loads
Acoustic weight or mass sensing technology (referred to here as Acoustic Weigh In Motion (AWIN)) provides accurate weighing of any type of moving load moving over a load bearing medium. Acoustic...
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7434757 |
Zero-backlash baitcast fishing reel
A fishing reel directly measuring line travel (not velocity or acceleration) past two or more points along the line, with said data being fed back in real time to a comparative control loop which...
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7428472 |
Monitoring activity of a user in locomotion on foot
A device supported by a user while the user is in locomotion on foot during an outing may monitor a performance parameter of the user. The performance parameter may comprise a pace and/or a speed...
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7426852 |
Submersible meter for measuring a parameter of gas hold-up of a fluid
A submersible meter is provided that measures the speed of sound propagating in an aerated fluid to determine any one of a plurality of parameters of the fluid, such as the gas holdup of the fluid...
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7426866 |
Acoustic liquid dispensing apparatus
A liquid dispensing apparatus for dispensing droplets of a liquid, and methods for measuring various fluid parameters of the liquid are described. The liquid dispensing apparatus comprises a...
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7426865 |
Method for ultrasonic elastic modulus calculation and imaging
Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for generating an image of an article, wherein the image represents the articles elastic modulus. The method comprises the steps of measuring a time of...
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7418865 |
Method and apparatus for ultrasound velocity measurements in drilling fluids
The disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for determining the velocity of an ultrasound pulse in drilling fluids in downhole environments. A method for determining a velocity of ultrasound...
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7418866 |
Method and apparatus for evaluation of standing timber
A method and apparatus for measuring the quality of live, standing timber employs deep-set spike probes angled to create a longitudinal compression wave. Alignment tools and isolation of the probes...
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7415880 |
Method for determining the sound velocity in a basic material, particularly for measuring the thickness of a wall
Disclosed is a method for determining the sound velocity (Cb) in a basic material, in which an ultrasonic probe having a transmitting probe, a receiver transducer, and a forward member is used. The...
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7406872 |
***WITHDRAWN PATENT AS PER THE LATEST USPTO WITHDRAWN LIST***
Sensor attachment structure and ultrasonic sensing device
A sensor attachment structure includes a sound receiving member for receiving an ultrasound, an ultrasonic sensor attached to the sound receiving member. The ultrasonic sensor includes a...
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7395711 |
System and technique for characterizing fluids using ultrasonic diffraction grating spectroscopy
A system for determining property of multiphase fluids based on ultrasonic diffraction grating spectroscopy includes a diffraction grating on a solid in contact with the fluid. An interrogation...
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7395712 |
Testing of bottomhole samplers using acoustics
A method and apparatus for testing a hydrocarbon sample. The apparatus includes a sheath disposed about the hydrocarbon sample container and at least one set of acoustic sensors, wherein the at...
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7391676 |
Ultrasonic distance sensors
A lithographic apparatus comprises an illumination system, a support constructed to support a patterning device, and a projection system. In pixel grid imaging, a large number of small optical...
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7389693 |
Methods and apparatus for porosity measurement
A method for non-destructively inspecting a composite structure with a single ultrasonic transducer includes determining a calibration amplitude of ultrasonic transmissions emitted by the single...
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7383730 |
Methods for determining velocity of a stress wave within a material and homogeneity of properties within the material
Methods for evaluating properties of a material are provided. In a first method, the velocity of a stress or sound wave is calculated by measuring the time of flight of the stress/sound wave...
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7373822 |
Method for evaluating a weld joint formed during a welding process
A method for evaluating, during a welding process, a welded joint as it is forming between at least two parts of a joint using at least one ultrasonic transmitter sound penetrating the region of...
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7373808 |
Method and ultrasonic meter system for determining pipe roughness
A method and ultrasonic meter system for determining pipe roughness. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are ultrasonic meters comprising a spool piece that couples within a flow of...
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7357027 |
Ultrasonic sensor system for web-guiding apparatus
A sensor system for determining the position of at least one edge of at least one web material traveling along a predetermined path. In one embodiment, the sensor system has at least one...
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7353708 |
Ultrasonic generator system
The system controls the frequency of an ultrasonic signal to be applied to a waveguide, such that the frequency corresponds to a preferred resonance mode of the waveguide and not to adjacent...
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