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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
May. 09, 2000
David R. Carver, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Thomas A. Tait, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Other;
Abstract
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus useful for detecting and measuring flow of a fluid along a flow path. In a method according to the invention, the temperature of a flowing fluid is altered at a selected location for a selected duration so as to generate a pulse in the fluid moving in a downstream direction along a flow path, and the fluid is monitored at a sensing region to detect the pulse passing therethrough. An apparatus according to the present invention may comprise a conduit, a sensor element disposed therein, an energy source proximate to the conduit, and a controller operative to generate an on signal and an off signal respectively operative to activate and deactivate the energy source. The present invention also relates to a liquid chromatography device having a fluid flow detecting and measuring apparatus according to the present invention.