Fuji Electric Systems Co. Ltd.

Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

Kouji Hagiwara

Toshihiro Yamamoto

Masami Kishiro

Hironobu Yao

Noritomo Hirayama

Yoshinori Ohmuro

A flowmeter includes: a transit time method unit having a sensor and a reception signal amplification control unit and a flow rate calculation unit which are connected to the sensor via a sensor selector switch; a pulse Doppler method having a reception signal amplification control unit and an integration calculation unit which are connected to the sensor; a transmission/reception timing control unit common to them; a measurement method selection control unit for controlling switching between the transit time method unit and the pulse Doppler method unit, and parallel operation; and a measurement value output selector switch for selecting the output of the transit time method unit and the pulse Doppler method unit. That is, the single flowmeter can perform flow rate measurement by the transit time method having no restriction on the measurement range as well as by the pulse Doppler method having an upper limit of the measurement range but enabling a highly accurate measurement.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kouji Hagiwara