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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2017
Applicant:

Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);

Inventors:

Anand Dabak, Plano, TX (US);

Luis Reynoso Covarrubias, Murphy, TX (US);

Srinath Ramaswamy, Murphy, TX (US);

Srinivas Lingam, Dallas, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 1/66 (2022.01); G01F 15/02 (2006.01); H04B 11/00 (2006.01); G01F 1/667 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 1/667 (2013.01); G01F 1/662 (2013.01); G01F 15/024 (2013.01); H04B 11/00 (2013.01); G01F 1/668 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed examples include methods and systems to measure fluid flow, including a transmit circuit to provide a transducer transmit signal based on a transmit pulse signal, a receive circuit to receive a transducer receive signal, an ADC to sample a receive signal from the receive circuit and provide a sampled signal, and a processing circuit that computes a transit time based on the sampled signal, and provides the transmit pulse signal including a first portion with a frequency in a first frequency band, and a second portion with a second frequency outside the first frequency band to mitigate undesired transducer vibration, where the second frequency is outside a transducer frequency bandwidth of the transducer.


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