Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

Fuji Electric Systems Co. Ltd.

The University of Tokyo

Kabushiki Kaisha Riken

Noritomo Hirayama

Yusuke Nakamura

Hideo Kanai

Masami Kishiro

Toshihiro Yamamoto

Hironobu Yao

Yoshinori Ohmuro

Naoki Takeda

Masahiro Uno

Kazuhiro Koizumi

Masaya Tabaru

Nobuyuki Takegawa

Takayuki Nakamura

Kazuyuki Yamada

Tetsuo Uchiyama

Takashi Iida

Mutsumi Nagumo

Satoru Sakaue

Kenichi Tsuji

Wan Jiang

Nobuhisa Kato

Masahiko Takei

Kouji Hagiwara

Takuya Onodera

Yosheyuki Sekine

Takuma Miyakawa

Yohichi Yamashita

Yuuki Sameshima

A fluid measuring device in which an ultrasonic probe provided on an outer pipeline surface transmits and receives ultrasonic waves to and from fluid in a pipeline to measure characteristics of the fluid on the basis of propagation time of the ultrasonic waves, features a wedge included in the ultrasonic probe and having an ultrasonic vibrator provided on a wedge surface. The ultrasonic vibrator may be horizontal to a surface contacting the pipeline so that ultrasonic waves enter the fluid vertically. The ultrasonic vibrator may be provided on a wedge surface inclined with respect to an axial direction of the pipeline so that ultrasonic waves enter the fluid obliquely. The fluid measuring device embodiments are capable of measuring fluid characteristics, such as the type and velocity of various fluids, easily and accurately even when it is difficult to allow an ultrasonic signal to pass through the fluid in a pipeline.

Fluid measuring device including an ultrasonic probe having a wedge with an ultrasonic vibrator

A particle detection device includes a scattered light detector detecting an intensity of light scattered by a particle irradiated with a laser, an incandescent light detector detecting an intensity of incandescent light from the particle being irradiated with the laser, and a signal processor including: a first peak hold circuit holding a peak in the intensity of the light scattered by the particle; a second peak hold circuit holding a peak in the intensity of the incandescent light from the particle; and a threshold value comparison circuit comparing the peak in the first peak hold circuit to a threshold and, when the peak in the first peak hold circuit exceeds the threshold, outputs a reset signal to the second peak hold circuit immediately thereafter so the peak previously in the second peak hold circuit is reset immediately after the peak in the first peak hold circuit exceeds the threshold.

Particle detection device

A particle beam forming device for forming either a linear or conical particle beam from a particle source in which particles are dispersed in a gas, includes: a reduced-pressure vessel in which pressure is reduced; a particle beam generating unit, which has one end arranged outside of the reduced-pressure vessel and an other end arranged inside the reduced-pressure vessel, and which captures the particle source from outside the reduced-pressure vessel and introduces the particle beam into the reduced-pressure vessel; and a particle beam evaluating unit for evaluating a spatial distribution of the particle beam inside the reduced-pressure vessel.

Particle beam forming device

A method of analyzing microparticle compositions and a microparticle composition analyzing device are capable of quantitatively analyzing the mass concentration of air microparticles online for each chemical composition. The particle ray of microparticles in an air sample is converged, and is irradiated onto a narrow domain of a capture body which includes a mesh-shaped structure for capturing the microparticles in the particle ray while removing surplus gas phase components, and the microparticles are captured. Then, the narrow region is subjected to concentrated irradiation of energy rays, and the microparticles that are captured by the capture body are vaporized, sublimated or reacted to yield a desorbed component, which is analyzed.

Method of analyzing microparticle composition and microparticle composition analyzing device

In a Doppler ultrasonic flowmeter, to obtain a precise flow rate a flow rate calculation equation that corrects a quantization error occurring to a spatial resolution is used. An ultrasonic transducer transmits/receives ultrasonic pulses, and subject the resulting received signals to A/D conversion after a predetermined process is applied thereto. A computation control section calculates the flow velocity distribution. Then, the flow rate is calculated based on the flow rate calculation equation, which corrects the quantization error occurring to the spatial resolution.

Doppler ultrasonic flowmeter, and processor and method thereof with quantization error correction

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.

Ultrasonic flowmeter and ultrasonic flow rate measurement method

An apparatus and method for measuring a flow velocity profile of fluid traveling in a pipe or conduit uses an ultrasonic wave transmitted from an ultrasonic wave transducer mounted at an angle on the outside of a pipe using a wedge, and made incident onto the fluid in the pipe to measure the fluid flow velocity profile, using the principle that a frequency of an ultrasonic wave, reflected by a reflector existing in the fluid, is changed depending on a flow velocity due to Doppler effect. The transmission frequency and the angle of incidence onto the pipe can be selected to suppress frequency dependence of a measured value due to Lamb wave and allow the flow velocity or flow rate of fluid to be measured with a greater accuracy.

Apparatus and method for measuring a fluid flow rate profile using acoustic doppler effect

A wedge unit according to the present invention is used for an ultrasonic Doppler flow meter, being mounted on the outer wall of a pipe in which a fluid flows, supplying an ultrasonic wave to the fluid, receives the reflected wave and supplies the reflected wave to a flow rate calculation unit, comprises a wedge with one surface thereof being mounted on a part of the outer circumference of the pipe and on another surface thereof being equipped with an ultrasonic oscillator that generates the ultrasonic wave in response to an electric signal and receives the reflected wave; and an ultrasonic wave attenuation unit being mounted on the outer circumference of the pipe so as to include a position where an ultrasonic wave injected from the ultrasonic oscillator into the pipe by way of the wedge first reaches the outer wall of the pipe after being reflected by the inner wall thereof.

Wedge and wedge unit for use in ultrasonic doppler flow meter

An infrared gas analyzer is formed of a source of infrared rays for emitting infrared flux; an infrared flux interrupting device for chopping the emitted infrared flux from the source of the infrared rays; a condensing optical system for obtaining a predetermined solid angle in the emitted infrared flux to thereby form a condensed flux; and a multi-reflection cell disposed at an outlet of the condensing optical system, to which the condensed flux is supplied and a gas to be measured is fed. The multi-reflection cell has a multi-reflection optical system formed of a plurality of concave mirrors. The analyzer also includes an infrared level detector for detecting an amount of infrared rays with a wavelength band absorbed by a component gas to be analyzed and contained in the infrared rays emitted by the multi-reflection cell. At least the condensing optical system, multi-reflection cell and infrared level detector are accurately positioned by using as a reference a position of the condensing optical system at which the condensed flux is emitted, and are coupled tightly at coupling positions without an air-flowing layer. Accordingly, the infrared gas analyzer can be made small to detect and analyze a low density component gas and for an explosion-proof environment.

Infrared gas analyzer

A ceramic heating element includes a heat-generating portion 1 formed of a ceramic composite material with 3 to 40 vol. % of silicon carbide (SiC) whiskers and the balance substantially of molybdenum disilicide (MoSi.sub.2), and electrode portions 2a and 2b provided on both ends of the heat-generating portion 1.

Ceramic heating element made of molybdenum disilicide and silicon

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Noritomo Hirayama