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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6671583 | Vacuum system information network A vacuum network control system includes a vacuum network controller hub communicating over a public high-speed network, where the hub has an address registered with respect to the non-local network and communicates over a first local high-speed network. ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6611770 | Liquid conduction indication in a magnetic flowmeter A magnetic flowmeter with an improved liquid conduction indication has a flowtube assembly with a passage for liquid flow and has an electromagnet mounted outside the passage that provides ramped magnetic excitation. An electrode circuit couples through t... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6609069 | Method and apparatus for determining the flow velocity of a fluid within a pipe A method and corresponding apparatus for measuring the flow velocity of a fluid in an elongated body by sensing at more than one location along the elongated body, vortical disturbances convecting with the fluid, and correlating the outputs of the various... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6592822 | Multi-analyte diagnostic system and computer implemented process for same A multi-analyte diagnostic system for use with a computer. The diagnostic system includes a flow analyzer including a co-planar light source-optical detector array, the flow analyzer being communicatable with the computer. The diagnostic system also inclu... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6587796 | Ultrasonic flowmeter An ultrasonic flowmeter, wherein upstream and downstream receive signals are A/D-converted and thereby the discrete values thereof are determined; a cross-correlation between the upstream and downstream receive signals is determined; the result of calcula... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6584435 | Systems and methods for determining spectra using dynamic karhunen-loeve algorithms with measurements from led color sensor An LED-based spectrophotometer uses a reconstruction algorithm, based on the spectral characteristics of the illumination source and the color sensing system, to convert integrated multiple illuminant measurements from a non-fully illuminant populated col... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6256590 | Electromagnetic flowmeter In an electromagnetic flowmeter, the conventional derivation of flow velocity is corrected or replaced by an alternative calculation to take into account estimated non-linear dependence of field strength produced by the coil with applied coil current. Thi... | 07/03/2001 |
| 5991697 | Method and apparatus for optical Doppler tomographic imaging of fluid flow velocity in highly scattering media Optical Doppler tomography permits imaging of fluid flow velocity in highly scattering media. The tomography system combines Doppler velocimetry with high spatial resolution of partially coherent optical interferometry to measure fluid flow velocity at di... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5491642 | CCD based particle image direction and zero velocity resolver A PIV system provides a bias velocity component to each flow field speckle pattern recorded on a video array by rastering each corresponding recorded electrical image pattern by a select number of raster lines in the time interval prior to recording a suc... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5453834 | Digital burst frequency translator A device for detecting and measuring analog coherent frequency bursts includes circuitry for digitally translating the bursts upon their detection. Based on a frequency range estimate, a sampling frequency is selected to govern conversion of the analog bu... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5299141 | Automatic fluid monitoring and sampling apparatus and method A fluid sampling apparatus provided as a unitary structure which automatically collects fluid samples according to modes of operation selected by a user, while monitoring an analyte of interest on a real-time basis on the basis of signals from a fiber opt... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5146414 | Method and apparatus for continuously measuring volumetric flow Method and apparatus for adapting the volumetric flow rate measurement system taught by Yelderman in U.S. Pat. No. 4,507,974 to clinical environments by reducing the effects of physiological noise. Signal processing techniques are used to characterize the... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5094112 | Process and a device for carrying out measurements at a foaming liquid This specific density of the liquid/air mixture is measured at successive levels within the reception vessel for the liquid using a reference measurement (Io) representing the specific density of the degasified liquid within a reference measuring path. Th... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5003810 | Fluid meter A fluid meter comprises at least three sensors each having an output dependent on a respective characteristic of the fluid to be monitored, circuitry to combine the outputs of two of the sensors to provide a measurement of mass flowrate of the fluid, and ... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4885943 | Electronic flowmeter system and method An electronic flowmeter system including a turbine flowmeter and a digital controller for making highly accurate flow measurements over a wide range of fluid flows and pressures. The flowmeter preferably includes a housing or body having a cylindrical bor... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4843564 | Apparatus and method for measuring frequency of coherent component of a composite signal A Doppler velocimeter having laser generating crossing light beams provides a crossing and focus area forming a measuring volume having regions of high and low light intensity. Solid or liquid particles moving through the measuring volume scatter light wh... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4837708 | Process and apparatus for determining flow rate of a flow medium in a flow line The present invention relates to a process and system for continuously monitoring and calculating the flow rate of a fluid medium in a flow line. The system includes a camera for viewing and capturing an image of a chart having different colored trace lin... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4774676 | Linear digital flowmeter A linear digital flow meter includes a float in a passageway as is located positioned with the rate of flow. A sight glass tube is secured to the end of the unit and a rod connects the float to a tube. A generally H-shaped housing has the tube located in ... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4654803 | Photothermal deflection method of measuring fluid velocity A method of measuring the velocity of a fluid by noninstrusive means comprises passing a pump laser beam pulse through the fluid wherein the fluid contains a constituent absorbing the wavelength of the laser so that a temperature gradient, and therefore a... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4590579 | Apparatus and method for digital specific gravity measurement A device is provided for enabling the signal generated by a sensing device to be presented which is representative of the property sensed of a flowing material over a conveyor, or the like. The output is presented for observation and/or as a usable input ... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4338520 | Method of and apparatus for analyzing gas flows inside hollow bodies In order to produce a visual image on a screen of the movement of gas flows inside hollow bodies, e.g. gas turbine or internal combustion engines, or wind tunnels, a gaseous tracer material including a short-lived radio-active isotope is injected into the... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4303980 | Electromagnetic flowmeter system having automatically adjusted response characteristics An electromagnetic flowmeter in which fluid to be metered passes through a flow tube to intersect a magnetic field whereby the voltage induced in the fluid is transferred to a pair of electrodes mounted in the flow tube to yield a flow-induced signal havi... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4019038 | Correlators The speed of flow of a fluid is measured by transmitting across the flowing fluid upstream and downstream ultrasonic energy beams, transmitted beams, deriving electrical outputs therefrom, detecting the outputs to provide upstream and downstream detected ... | 04/19/1977 |
