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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
May. 06, 2013
Emerson Process Management Regulator Technologies, Inc., McKinney, TX (US);
Tony Alan Durant, McKinney, TX (US);
James Curtis Bagby, McKinney, TX (US);
Samuel Harold Larsen, Murphy, TX (US);
Anthony Francis Hartman, McKinney, TX (US);
Emerson Process Management Regulator Technologies, Inc., McKinney, TX (US);
Abstract
Example pressure regulators with filter condition detectors are described herein. In one example described here, a regulator includes a body having an inlet and an outlet and a flow control member interposed between the inlet and the outlet to regulate a fluid pressure at the outlet. The example regulator also includes a filter disposed between the inlet and the flow control member and a detector having a first measurement point upstream from the filter and a second measurement point downstream from the filter and upstream from the flow control member.