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7347089 |
Gas volume contents within a container, smart volume instrument
A method for determining the volume of an incompressible gas in a system including incompressible substances in a zero-gravity environment. The method includes inducing a volumetric displacement...
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7302861 |
Portable flow measurement apparatus having an array of sensors
A portable flow measuring apparatus includes an array of pressure sensors used to measure the acoustic and convective pressure variations in the flow to determine a desired parameter. A portable...
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7299706 |
Flow meter and method of using the same
The invention relates to a new method and a new apparatus to accurately measure flow rates in injection systems such as gasoline, direct injection gasoline and diesel downstream of the injector...
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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...
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7261002 |
Flow rate measurement for industrial sensing applications using unsteady pressures
Flow rate measurement system includes two measurement regions 14,16 located an average axial distance ΔX apart along the pipe 12 , the first measurement region 14 having two unsteady pressure...
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7211873 |
Sensor device having thin membrane and method of manufacturing the same
A sensor device for use in an automobile as an airflow sensor is composed of a silicon substrate in which a cavity is formed and a base plate bonded to the silicon substrate. An upper end of the...
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7204158 |
Flow control apparatus and method with internally isothermal control volume for flow verification
An internally isothermal control volume of a flow verification system for measuring gas pressure drop relative to time to calculate flow rate has a thermal reservoir provided therein. The thermal...
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7197938 |
Contact-based transducers for characterizing unsteady pressures in pipes
A sensor head characterizes unsteady pressures in a fluid flowing within a pipe, as may be caused by one or both of acoustic waves propagating through the fluid within the pipe and/or pressure...
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7165464 |
Apparatus and method for providing a flow measurement compensated for entrained gas
A apparatus 10,110 is provided that measures the speed of sound and/or vortical disturbances propagating in a fluid or mixture having entrained gas/air to determine the gas volume fraction of the...
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7162921 |
Measuring device for measuring the volume flow or the substance properties of a gas, whose direction of flow can reverse
A device for measuring the volume flow or other substance properties of a gas, whose direction of flow can reverse. The arrangement contains a specially designed Y-piece, which is used for...
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7150202 |
Method and apparatus for measuring characteristics of core-annular flow
An apparatus and method are disclosed wherein at least one parameter associated with a core-annular flow (CAF) in a pipe is measured by sensing unsteady pressures associated with undulations formed...
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7146864 |
Apparatus having a multi-band sensor assembly for measuring a parameter of a fluid flow flowing within a pipe
An apparatus measures the speed of sound and/or vortical disturbances propagating in a fluid flow to determine a parameter of the flow propagating through a pipe. The apparatus includes a sensing...
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7135749 |
Pressure sensor
A pressure sensor includes a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, a glass substrate bonded to the SOI substrate by anode bonding, a silicon island formed on a part of a silicon layer of the SOI...
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7121152 |
Portable flow measurement apparatus having an array of sensors
A portable flow measuring apparatus measures the speed of sound and/or vortical disturbances propagating in a fluid flow to determine a parameter of the flow propagating through a pipe. The...
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7084363 |
Variable differential adjustor
A variable differential adjustor for a fluid pressure-actuated switch, with the fluid, in the preferred form of the invention, being air. The restrictor has a restrictor housing with a fluid...
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7042230 |
Multi-parameter sensing system
Systems and methodologies that provide for multi-parameter sensing via micro fabricated sensing structures operatively connected to oscillators, each micro-fabricated sensing structure in part...
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6983662 |
Bodily flow measuring system
A system of measuring the flow of a human or animal bodily action or fluid along or through a bodily flow conduit using two or more sensor means located on the body and along or around the path of...
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6945123 |
Gas flow sensor having redundant flow sensing capability
A sensor for redundantly measuring gas flow has a housing suitable for being interposed in a gas flow conduit. The housing has an orifice through which the gas to be measured flows. A gas flow...
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6935338 |
Fluid resistant airway adapter
An airway adaptor that includes a tubular body having a first gas flow passage defined therein. A protrusion extends from an interior wall of the tubular body into the gas flow passage. The...
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6928884 |
Method and apparatus for measurement of flow rate
A bi-directional, clean or grey medium, wide temperature range, low intrusion, low turbulence, mass flow meter extends multiple pressure sensing tubes, each containing multiple pressure sensing...
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6898339 |
Multiple mode pre-loadable fiber optic pressure and temperature sensor
A multiple mode pre-loadable fiber optic pressure and temperature sensor includes a generally cylindrical structure having at least one compression element, a fiber optic having a Bragg grating in...
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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...
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6826966 |
Flow sensor package
A flow sensor package with a housing, a pressure sensing element, a restriction, and an elastomeric seal. The housing has a base, a cover, an inlet port, an outlet port, and first and second...
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6789433 |
Purge gas sensor
A flow sensor for an analytical instrument. The flow sensor can be used to detect the flow of a fluid such as purge gas in the instrument. The sensor can measure the fluid flow at an opening of the...
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6752020 |
Device for measuring pressure, sound and vibration and method of analyzing flow on surfaces of structural parts
In a method and apparatus for measuring pressure, sound and vibration, particularly for the flow analysis on missiles or airplanes, a sensor device which is used to sense pressure or sound waves,...
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6711525 |
Filter monitor
An apparatus for monitoring filter use in a compressed air system and indicating when filter element renewal is required on a differential pressure cost basis.
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6705173 |
Air flow rate meter
An air flow rate meter and method for monitoring the flow of air in high-pressure compressed air system includes a low pressure gauge contained within a sealed, high pressure vessel that is...
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6691584 |
Flow rate measurement using unsteady pressures
According to one embodiment of the present invention, the apparatus comprises a first filter for measuring a pressure field at a first axial location along the pipe and providing a first pressure...
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6687643 |
In-situ sensor system and method for data acquisition in liquids
An in-situ sensor system and method which measures the density of a liquid accurately with pressure sensors by measuring pressure in the liquid at two separate positions defined by a fixed...
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6666081 |
Sensor probe
An elongate probe suitable for measuring one or more properties of a stream of fluid, the probe having an external planar sensing surface, which in use is exposed to the stream of fluid, at a...
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6660528 |
Method for monitoring contaminating particles in a chamber
A method for determining the number of contaminating particles in a process chamber is described. While the method is particularly suited for detecting particles in a metal etch chamber, the...
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6658946 |
Method of detecting fluid flow through a conduit
A sensor for detecting contact of a fluid delivery probe with a fluid surface and for detecting fluid flow through the probe includes a first electrode disposed along a fluid flow path of the probe...
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6622573 |
Process flow device with improved pressure measurement feature
A flow device including a differential flow plate insertable into a flow path between pipe sections including a flow conduit supporting a flow interrupter and differential pressure taps. The flow...
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6568282 |
Method and apparatus for evaluating a membrane
A method and apparatus for evaluating a porous membrane. The method includes supplying a fluid to a first side of a wetted membrane at a pressure that is greater than the pressure on a second side...
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6546805 |
Process fluid transmitter with an environmentally sealed service block
An environmentally sealed service block is mounted inside a field wiring compartment of a process fluid transmitter. The service block has field wiring terminals, sealed jumper assemblies and...
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6536291 |
Optical flow rate measurement using unsteady pressures
A fiber optic strain gauge based flow rate measurement system includes two measurement regions located an average axial distance ΔX apart along the pipe, the first measurement region having two...
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6536271 |
Pump with integral flow monitoring
A centrifugal pump for transporting fluid with a housing, an impeller and a plurality of pressure sensors. Disposed within the housing is a volute section defined by a circumferential path through...
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6308581 |
Differential pressure flow sensor
The fluid flow meter of the present invention includes a ramp inclined to the surface of a vessel so as to form a recess in the surface. A dynamic port surface extends from the lower end of the...
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6279405 |
Apparatus and method for a pressure monitoring device
A differential pressure monitoring device utilizing two crystalline frequency sensors exposed to different pressures for generating two signals which are combined by a frequency mixer. Two offset...
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6244115 |
Flow meter for monitoring liquid flow at low or intermittent rates
A flow meter for monitoring liquid flow at low or intermittent rates, such as waste water gravity flow from a reverse osmosis system. Water flow from the system enters a meter chamber vented to...
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6151557 |
Friction flowmeter with improved software
A method in a pressure transmitter and a pressure transmitter for determining a mass flow rate of a fluid in a conduit measure a differential pressure between two points in the fluid, where the...
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6038919 |
Measurement of quantity of incompressible substance in a closed container
In a process and apparatus for delivering a processing substance from a storage vessel to a processing station, the storage vessel enclosing a processing substance storage space and being coupled...
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6021677 |
Pipeline system for the controlled distribution of a flowing medium and method for operating such a pipeline system
A pipeline system (10) for the controlled distribution of a flowing medium comprises a main line (11) which branches at a branching point (12) into a plurality of branch lines (13,14,15), in each...
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6016710 |
Method and apparatus for measuring the quantity of outdoor air processed by an air preconditioning module
A method and system for determining the airflow through an air preconditioning module having a sensible and/or latent energy transfer matrix having a pre-established relationship between airflow...
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6003386 |
Disposable mass flow transducer
A single, disposable differential transducer having a molded plastic body in which there is a pair of chambers separated by a strain gage electronic chip that flexes in accordance with the...
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5908990 |
Apparatus for measuring the velocity of a fluid flowing in a conduit
An apparatus for measuring the velocity of a fluid flowing in a conduit 13 comprises a differential pressure generator including first and second bluff bodies 6a, 6b which are positioned in the...
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5905208 |
System and method measuring fluid flow in a conduit
A system for measuring fluid mass flow in a conduit in which there exists a pressure differential in the fluid between at least two spaced-apart locations in the conduit. The system includes a...
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5895860 |
Heat exchanging medium pressure measuring apparatus
A cylindrical member of a sensor mounting member is partitioned in its middle by a partitioning wall into a high pressure side and a low pressure side, with pressure sensors provided at the two...
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5837903 |
Device for measuring exhaust flowrate using laminar flow element
An apparatus for determining the exhaust flowrate from an internal combustion engine (112) includes a laminar flowmeter (116). The flowmeter includes a capillary section (18) of ceramic material...
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5834659 |
Device and method for measuring fluid flow in a conduit having a gradual bend
A system for measuring fluid flow in a conduit having a gradual bend or arc, and a straight section. The system includes pressure transducers, one or more disposed in the conduit on the outside of...
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