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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1987
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1985
Hyok S Lew, Arvada, CO (US);
Louis T Yoshida, Longmont, CO (US);
Engineering Measurements Company, Longmont, CO (US);
Abstract
This invention discloses a vortex shedding flowmeter comprising a vortex generating member disposed across one cross section of the flow passage and a pair of vortex sensing wings respectively disposed across two cross section of the flow passage straddling the vortex generating member in a parallel relationship thereto, wherein one extremity of each wing is secured to a stocky container member housing a piezo-electric element by a flange of a thin diaphragm construction, which stocky container member is rigidly secured to the wall of the flow passage, while the other extremity of each wing is secured to the opposite side wall of the flow passage in a resilient manner.