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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 1977
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1976
George Lee Hildebrand, West Boxford, MA (US);
Thomas Till Sleeper, Marblehead, MA (US);
William Allen Healey, Wayland, MA (US);
Stuart Jeffery Hall, Nahant, MA (US);
Richard A Pfuntner, Alfred, ME (US);
General Electric Company, Wilmington, MA (US);
Abstract
A flowmeter is provided having a housing containing a swirling fluid stream, a rotor which is rotated by the stream, and a turbine which is displaced by the stream; and having a first, transverse angularly discrete, source of magnetic flux means rotating with said rotor and a first, transverse angularly discrete, detector of magnetic flux means mounted on the housing and providing a first output signal when said first source means and said first detector means are in transverse angular alignment, and a second transverse angularly discrete source of magnetic flux means, which may be said first source means, and a flux conductor angularly displaced in conjunction with said turbine, and a second detector of magnetic flux mounted on said housing and providing a second output signal when said second source means and said conductor are in transverse angular alignment.