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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 1978
Filed:
Dec. 03, 1976
Vincent J Cushing, Northbrook, IL (US);
Monitek, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
An electromagnetic flow transducer capable of mounting onto any selected point of a continuous cable without requiring the cable to be cut. The flow transducer has a housing, which surrounds the cable, having an appropriate hydrodynamic shape to minimize the disturbance to the flow sought to be measured. The housing also includes magnetic field producing means therein as well as a plurality of sensing electrodes mounted on, or extending slightly beyond, the surface of the housing. The cable onto which the transducer is mounted may perform the function of supporting the transducer, and any other transducers mounted below it, as well as transmitting signals to surface mounted apparatus or power therefrom to one or more of the transducers. In the alternative, the cable may only perform the function of transmitting signals to surface mounted apparatus and/or power therefrom, or it may be employed solely to support the transducer as well as any other transducers mounted below it.