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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 02, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
John J Lacey, Jr, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Assignee:
Fluidyne Engineering Corporation, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73 12 ; 73147 ;
Abstract
A free piston shock tube/tunnel having a mechanism for increasing the holding time, without correspondingly increasing viscous losses in which the shock tube/tunnel includes a diaphragm positioned in the area of connection between the compression tube and the shock tube and a selectively replaceable orifice insert positioned near the diaphragm in which the orifice insert has an opening with a diameter less than the internal diameter of the shock tube.