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8176772 Piezoelectric sensor and sensing instrument  
A piezoelectric sensor senses a substance to be measured in a sample solution, thereby conducting high-precision measurement. A pressing member has a solution storage space with a bottom surface...
8171795 Self-exciting, self-sensing piezoelectric cantilever sensor for detection of airborne analytes directly in air  
A method for detection of airborne biological agent using a piezoelectric cantilever sensor that includes a piezoelectric layer and a non-piezoelectric layer. A recognition entity is placed on one...
8146406 Vibrating transmitter for consistency measurement  
The invention relates to a transmitter for consistency measuring of pulp suspensions at first hand, comprising a measuring body (1), shaped such as a blade, suspended in a vibration-producing...
7942056 Self-exciting, self-sensing piezoelectric cantilever sensor  
A piezoelectric cantilever sensor includes a piezoelectric layer and a non-piezoelectric layer, a portion of which is attached to the piezoelectric layer. In one embodiment, one end of the...
7935191 Controlling accumulation of select adsorbers on a piezoelectric cantilever sensor  
The techniques described herein are directed to removing material that has attached to or preventing material from attaching to the surface of a piezoelectric cantilever. The material can be a...
7878044 Sensor, system, and method, for measuring fluid properties using multi-mode quasi-shear-horizontal resonator  
A system and a method for providing information on two of the three variables, density (ρ), viscosity (η), and elastic modulus (c) of a fluid, such that independent knowledge of one variable a...
7878047 Monitoring particles in a fluid stream  
There is described an apparatus for monitoring particles in a fluid stream, comprising a body portion and a detector element that is acoustically decoupled from the body portion. The detector...
7739911 Ultrasonic characterization of solid liquid suspensions  
Using an ultrasonic field, properties of a solid liquid suspension such as through-transmission attenuation, backscattering, and diffuse field are measured. These properties are converted to...
7694552 High quality factor resonators for liquid immersion biological and chemical sensors  
A mechanical resonator capable of providing an intrinsically high mechanical quality factor in immersion is provided. The resonator includes a membrane attached at its perimeter to a frame, such...
7677087 Quartz sensor and sensing device  
Provided is a Angevin type quartz sensor which is high in measurement sensitivity, suppresses the influence of the surface tension of a sample solution during measurement, and enables an installed...
7661293 Ultrasonic system for detecting and quantifying of air bubbles/particles in a flowing liquid  
A system using ultrasonic energy for detecting and quantifying air bubbles and/or particles in a liquid flowing in a tube by a non-invasive and non-destructive technique has an ultrasonic sensor...
7661294 Non-invasive multi-function sensor system  
An integrated multi-function sensor system has a head having a slot to accept a tube of a deformable material and a plurality of sensor elements mounted in the walls of the head slot to confront a...
7581446 Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining a property of construction material  
Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining a property of construction material. According to one aspect, a material property gauge operable to determine a property of...
7578203 System for sand detection at constrictions or flow obstacles in a pipe or similar  
This invention relates to a system for measuring solid particles, e.g. sand, in a fluid flow in a pipe, comprising at least one acoustic sensor for registering acoustic signals generated from...
7543476 Rupture event sensors  
An apparatus for separating an analyte from a mixture or for detecting an analyte or for determining the affinity, or a property related to affinity, between binding partners includes: a) a surface...
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...
7503217 Sonar sand detection  
Methods and apparatus for detecting particles flowing in a fluid within a conduit involve analysis of acoustic pressure signals detected with an array of at least two pressure sensors. The analysis...
7500379 Acoustic wave array chemical and biological sensor  
An acoustic wave sensor array device is provided for the detection, identification, and quantification of chemicals and biological elements dispersed in fluids. The sensor array device is capable...
7458265 Piezoelectric cantilever sensors  
A piezoelectric cantilever with a non-piezoelectric, or piezoelectric tip useful as mass and viscosity sensors. The change in the cantilever mass can be accurately quantified by monitoring a...
7437907 Sensor for detecting substance in liquid and apparatus for detecting substance in liquid using the same  
In a sensor for detecting a substance in liquid, recesses are provided in the upper surface of a base substrate. The recesses respectively accommodate SAW elements. A resin layer having openings is...
7409851 Detection of small bound mass  
Prefabricated catalyzing adsorption sites are incorporated into small oscillators. In one embodiment, the sites are formed of precisely positioned gold anchors on surface micromachined oscillators....
7398671 Micromechanical sensor element  
A micromechanical sensor element for recording the bonding of molecules to the micromechanical sensor element. The sensor element having a substrate and at least one electrical terminal. There is...
7389673 Sensor for detecting analyte in liquid and device for detecting analyte in liquid using the same  
A sensor for detecting an analyte in liquid includes a base substrate provided with openings and electrode lands on one surface thereof and SAW elements each provided with a sensing portion having...
7373805 Apparatus for directing particles in a fluid  
There is disclosed apparatus for directing particles entrained in a fluid, comprising a chamber having a first wall, including means for generating a sound wave having a frequency v, and a second,...
7334452 Method for characterizing materials by using a mechanical resonator  
Methods for monitoring a fluid composition include placing a mechanical resonator in the fluid composition and oscillating the resonator. The resonator can be a tuning fork resonator having tines...
7266990 Flexural plate wave sensor and array  
A method for manufacturing a flexural plate wave sensor includes the steps of depositing an etch-stop layer over a substrate, depositing a membrane layer over the etch stop layer, depositing a...
7260482 Ultrasonic characterization of high concentration particles  
A method for characterizing a suspension with particles floating therein, which method comprises the steps of generating an acoustic actuation signal and registering an acoustic reflected signal....
7171844 Apparatus and method for measuring the mass of a substance  
An apparatus for measuring the mass of a substance includes a sensor having a membrane layer, the membrane for receiving the substance thereon, an oscillator device for driving the membrane at a...
7165452 Measuring method, measurement-signal output circuit, and measuring apparatus  
A measuring apparatus for detecting a change in frequency of a piezoelectric vibrating reed is realized with a simple circuit. The circuit of the measuring apparatus includes a phase lock loop...
7140239 System and technique for ultrasonic characterization of settling suspensions  
A system for determining properties of settling suspensions includes a settling container, a mixer, and devices for ultrasonic interrogation transverse to the settling direction. A computer system...
7114375 Process monitoring and particle characterization with ultrasonic backscattering  
A fermention process is monitored by detecting ultrasound backscattered from the cells as a function of time. A transducer 46 is placed in a fermentor 30 and transmits ultrasound towards a...
7096719 Apparatus for measuring parameters of a flowing multiphase mixture  
An apparatus 10 is provided that measures the speed of sound propagating in a multiphase mixture to determine parameters, such as mixture quality, particle size, vapor/mass ratio, liquid/vapor...
7093482 System and method for detecting particles  
An acoustic detector based on rupture event scanning (“REVS”) with a detection setup allowing the monitoring of REVS signals near the driving frequency and with optimized impedance matching bet...
7073370 Method and apparatus for characterizing materials by using a mechanical resonator  
A method and apparatus for measuring properties of a liquid composition includes a mechanical resonator, such as a cantilever, connected to a measurement circuit. The mechanical resonator can be...
7069776 Method for measuring particle concentration during injection pumping operations  
In a well bore operation in which a particulate is added to a fluid stream, a method of determining the concentration of said particulate in said fluid stream comprising the steps of measuring the...
7072044 Apparatus for acoustic detection of particles in a flow using a fiber optic interferometer  
Fiber optic particle detector for measurements in a fluid flow, comprising an optical fiber (2,3,12) being acoustically coupled to a mechanical element (11,13,14) adapted to be acoustically coupled...
7036375 QCM sensor and QCM sensor device  
A plurality of quartz crystal resonators having different resonance frequencies are connected in parallel. A combined admittance of the resonators is measured. Equivalent circuit constants of all...
7028538 Sand monitoring within wells using acoustic arrays  
A method for detecting the presence of particles, such as sand, flowing within a fluid in a conduit is disclosed. At least two optical sensors measure pressure variations propagating through the...
6959589 Ultrasound analysis of slurries  
An autoclave reactor allows for the ultrasonic analysis of slurry concentration and particle size distribution at elevated temperatures and pressures while maintaining the temperature- and...
6945096 Measurement and control of asphaltene agglomeration in hydrocarbon liquids  
A method is provided for measuring the agglomerative state of asphaltenes in oil by applying an acoustic signal to the oil, detecting the scattered acoustic energy and using this detected signal to...
6945089 Mass-sensitive sensor  
In a mass-sensitive sensor consisting of an acoustic surface wave component on the basis of shear waves, the sensor includes a substrate with an active surface carrying two different layers, one...
6942782 Method and apparatus for measuring deposit forming capacity of fluids using an electrochemically controlled pH change in the fluid proximate to a piezoelectric microbalance  
A method and apparatus for measuring the deposit forming propensity of a continuously flowing fluid having a bulk pH of about 1 to about 12 comprising measuring the rate at which deposit forms on a...
6935164 Refiner control  
In the present invention a refiner (108) of a mechanical pulping line is supplied with a controllable acoustic source (14), arranged for emitting acoustic signals into the pulp fluid. The...
6935165 Microscale sensor element and related device and method of use  
A monitoring apparatus useful in detecting viability of biological cells. A substrate defines a microscopic chamber. One or more microcantilevers extend from the substrate into the chamber. A...
6910367 Method for determining particle size distribution and structural properties of concentrated dispersions  
A method is described which applies Acoustic Spectrometry to characterize both the particle size distribution and micro-rheological properties of the structured concentrated dispersions. It...
6874356 Method and device for monitoring and controlling a process  
A method and device for monitoring and controlling a pharmaceutical, chemical or food process, in which the biological activity and/or the bio-mass of micro-organisms in the process is monitored,...
6862536 Measuring system and a method for measuring particle velocity and/or particle velocity distribution and/or particle size distribution  
Measuring systems and methods measure particle velocity and/or particle velocity distribution and/or particle size or particle size distribution. The measuring system includes a filter for...
6826949 Method and apparatus for guiding a liquid sample towards a sensing surface  
A liquid sample sensing device comprises a set of stackable liquid sample base units that are adapted to be stacked together to form multiple sample volumes that are substantially sealed, each with...
6796195 Apparatus for determining particle size  
The invention provides a method and an apparatus for measuring the size, concentration and size distribution of particles in a fluid by determining the characteristics of an acoustic speckle signal...
6748815 Method for determining particle size  
The invention provides a method and an apparatus for measuring the size, concentration and size distribution of particles in a fluid by determining the characteristics of an acoustic speckle signal...
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