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Patent No.:

US 9625914 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 25, 2013

Method for configuring a vortex flow control device

Applicant:

Hydro International Plc, Clevedon, GB;

Inventors:

Daniel Stuart Jarman, Somerset, GB;

Robert Yaw Gyamfi Andoh, South Portland, ME (US);

Jeremy Paul Lecornu, Somerset, GB;

Kwabena Osei, South Portland, ME (US);

Assignee:

Hydro International plc, Clevedon, GB;

Attorney:

Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP

Primary Examiner:

Robert Fennema

Assistant Examiner:

Jigneshkumar Patel

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E03F 5/10 (2006.01); F15C 1/16 (2006.01); G05D 7/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 7/01 (2013.01); E03F 5/106 (2013.01); Y10T 137/0368 (2015.04); Y10T 137/2087 (2015.04);
Abstract

A method of configuring a vortex flow control devicecomprising a vortex chamber, an inletand an outletarranged at one end of the vortex chamber, wherein the method comprises the steps of: setting a target maximum flow rate Fthrough the outletfor a predetermined pressure Pat the inlet; setting a target vortex initiation flow rate Fthrough the outletat which vortex flow within the vortex chamberinitiates; determining the actual maximum flow rate Fthrough the outletfor the predetermined pressure Pat the inlet; determining the actual vortex initiation flow rate Fthrough the outlet; determining an error parameter E based on at least one of the actual maximum flow rate Fand the actual vortex initiation flow rate Fand at least one of the target maximum flow rate Fand the target vortex initiation flow rate F; comparing the error parameter E against a target condition C; and, if the error parameter E fails to satisfy the target condition C, modifying at least one characteristic of the vortex flow control deviceso as to vary at least one of the actual maximum flow rate Fand the actual vortex initiation flow rate Fso that the modified vortex flow control configuration produces a hydraulic response that more closely satisfies the target condition C.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Jarman, Daniel. (2017). Method for configuring a vortex flow control device (U.S. Patent No. 9625914). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9625914

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