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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 04, 1992
Kageyoshi Katakura, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A flowmeter employing an array of ultrasonic wave transducer elements, the flowmeter being arranged in such a way that reception signals of plural reception beams aligned in parallel with one another are formed from detection signals of reflection ultrasonic waves from the transducer elements; the Fourier transformation is performed with respect to a direction of alignment of the reception beams; a moving target indication processing is then performed among a plurality of reception signals derived from the repetitive transmissions; the result of the Fourier transformation is treated as two-dimensional signals of time series corresponding to the transmission of the ultrasonic wave, and with respect to a plurality of straight lines coinciding at respective angles with the origin of a coordinate, signal values on each of the straight lines are treated as a one-dimension sequence of numbers to perform the Fourier transformation; and an axial velocity component and a lateral (transverse) velocity component of a moving object are obtained on the basis of the resulting signal distribution.