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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2017
Transit time flow metering probe with repeating pair of ultrasonic transducers connected in parallel
Applicant:
Onicon Inc., Largo, FL (US);
Inventor:
Murray F Feller, Micanopy, FL (US);
Assignee:
Onicon Inc., Largo, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 1/66 (2006.01); G01F 5/00 (2006.01); G01F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 1/662 (2013.01); G01F 1/667 (2013.01); G01F 5/00 (2013.01); G01F 15/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A transit time flow sensor is configured as an insertable probe carrying transducers spaced apart along an acoustic path that may be segmented. The transducers are attached to non-wetted surfaces of respective tabs extending outwardly from the probe and functioning as acoustic windows. The tabs are selectively skewed with respect to the probe's flow axis so that acoustic signals from one transducer are detected by another. Directly communicating transducers may be on the same or opposite sides of the probe's flow axis.