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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Andrew R McFarland, College Station, TX (US);
John C Rodgers, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Carlos A Ortiz, Bryan, TX (US);
David C Nelson, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California Office of Technology Transfer, Alameda, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73202 ;
Abstract
Elbow mass flow meter. The present invention includes a combination of an elbow pressure drop generator and a shunt-type mass flow sensor for providing an output which gives the mass flow rate of a gas that is nearly independent of the density of the gas. For air, the output is also approximately independent of humidity.