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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:
Dec. 10, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tony J Wood, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
7320418 ; 7320414 ; 7320423 ;
Abstract
A thermal anemometer having a large number of thermally isolated fins is placed in a fluid flow. The flow velocity is computed from the temperature of the fin tips and the fluid temperature along with knowledge of the amount of power supplied to the fins.