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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1992
Charles F Drexel, Rolling Hills Estates, CA (US);
Richard F Blair, Long Beach, CA (US);
Tylan Corporation, Carson, CA (US);
Abstract
Reduced attitude sensitivity is achieved in a fluid mass flow meter of the type which determines fluid flow from the temperature difference between an upstream sensor and a downstream sensor positioned along the flow path of the fluid externally of a sensing conduit for the fluid. A housing, taking particular forms, has wall structure spaced along the sensors adapted to substantially limit the ambient gaseous atmosphere along the sensors to a thin film. The housing wall structure further is spaced along portions of the sensing conduit between the sensors and the input and output ports of the conduit to substantially limit the ambient gaseous atmosphere along such portions to a thin film. In one form, such wall structure, along these portions, converges from both directions along the conduit, to provide support regions for the conduit. The sensors, specifically, are self-heating coil elements formed of temperature-sensitive resistance wire wound around the outside of the sensing conduit. They are incorporated into a bridge-type circuit for sensing their temperatures.