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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2000
Kenji Kawaguchi, Kyoto, JP;
Masanori Yasuda, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for measuring a speed of an ultrasonic: wave propagated in a sample, even if there are bubbles in a sample. And it presupposes an ultrasonic speed measuring method for seeking a sonic speed in a sample in accordance with the propagation time of an ultrasonic wave propagated between an ultrasonic transmitter and an ultrasonic receiver by transmitting the ultrasonic wave from the ultrasonic transmitter. The apparatus of this invention is arranged that continuous oscillating waves are oscillated synchronizing the phase only with the receipt timing of at least one of receiving waves received by the ultrasonic receiver at every transmitting waves, and according to the continuous oscillating waves it is possible to measure the period of pulses oscillated by the local oscillator for determining the transmit timing.