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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:
Aug. 23, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 17, 2018
Applicant:

Rubicon Research Pty Ltd, Hawthorn East, AU;

Inventors:

David John Aughton, Essendon, AU;

Gordon John Bish, Thornbury, AU;

Craig Joseph Bayliss, Box Hill North, AU;

Marius Catalin Catrina, Southbank, AU;

Assignee:

RUBICON RESEARCH PTY LTD, Hawthorn East, AU;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 1/66 (2022.01); G01F 1/667 (2022.01); G01F 23/296 (2022.01); G01F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 1/667 (2013.01); G01F 1/662 (2013.01); G01F 23/296 (2013.01); G01F 15/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

An arrangement of acoustic transducers for a flow meter. The flow meter is for measuring the rate at which fluid is flowing. The arrangement includes a respective transducer set for each edge of a notional regular polygon. The transducer sets are associated with a tubular cavity for carrying the fluid. Each of the transducer sets respectively includes two acoustic transducers oriented to define an acoustic path lying in a measurement plane of the respective set, and another two acoustic transducers oriented to define another acoustic path lying in the measurement plane of the respective set. The transducers sets are positioned so that, in a cross-section normal to the tubular cavity, the measurement plane of each respective transducer set is coincident with a respective edge of the notional regular polygon.


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