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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170813 | Determining effects of turbine blades on fluid motion Disclosed is a technique for simulating wind interaction with wind turbines. A turbine blade is divided into radial sections. The effect that each of these radial sections has on the velocities in Eulerian computational cells they overlap is determined. The effect i... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160823 | Contact pressure and position detecting device and detecting method for same A contact pressure and position detecting device includes a first sensing layer, a second sensing layer located on the first sensing layer, and a processor. The first sensing layer includes a number of parallel first pipes, and the second sensing layer includes a nu... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155896 | Fluid flow measuring and proportional fluid flow control device Embodiments disclosed herein provide restrictive-flow flow measurement devices, valve improvements and signal control devices and processes that control the flow of liquids, including control processes for single-liquid calibration. In some embodiments, a fluid flow... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8140275 | Calculating insulin on board for extended bolus being delivered by an insulin delivery device A system and method may be used to calculate insulin on board (IOB) for an extended bolus being delivered by an insulin infusion pump. In general, the system and method calculates an extended bolus IOB value for the extended bolus, which takes into account the insul... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8099249 | Method and system for detection and compensation of a rapid temperature change on a pressure measurement cell The invention is a method and system for detection and compensation of a rapid change in temperature on a pressure measurement cell, in which a measurement signal proportional to the deflection of a diaphragm is generated by means of a sensor. A reference signal pro... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8032314 | MLD-modified synthetic ocean profiles A method for providing a more accurate synthetic profiles of temperature, salinity and sound speed of the ocean over an area of interest is provided by using a value of the mixed layer depth in addition to values of surface temperature and surface height in an ocean... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027794 | System and method for measuring properties of liquid in multiphase mixtures This disclosure describes measuring properties of a multiphase mixture flowing in a pipe using probes with different sensitivity depths. By generating annular flow of the multiphase mixture in the pipe, the probes may be contacted with the liquid phase of the mixtur... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8000909 | System and method for monitoring and controlling pressure relief valve performance Methods, systems, and programs for monitoring operation of one or more pressure relief valves, each relief valve containing an internal flow passage with a valve seat and valve plug disposed therein. The temperature of a fluid is sensed in the internal flow passage ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996161 | Process fluid pressure transmitter with pressure transient detection A process fluid pressure transmitter includes a process fluid pressure sensor, measurement circuitry, a controller and a loop communicator. The pressure sensor is coupleable to a source of process fluid pressure. Measurement circuitry is coupled to the process fluid... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7962294 | Integrated absolute and differential pressure transducer A method and apparatus integrates differential pressure measurements and absolute pressure measurements to provide a continuous absolute pressure profile over a wide range of pressures on a single integrated scale. The absolute pressure measurements and differential... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953563 | Determining effects of turbine blades on fluid motion Disclosed is a technique for simulating wind interaction with wind turbines. A turbine blade is divided into radial sections. The effect that each of these radial sections has on the velocities in Eulerian computational cells they overlap is determined. The effect i... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7941285 | Flow assurance monitoring In one oil production operation, a fluid conduit transports a fluid from a wellhead to a floating production platform. To prevent an occurrence of formations that obstruct the flow of fluid in the fluid conduit, a forecast is made as to whether a flow assurance curv... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7930116 | Procedure for diagnosing a metering valve of an exhaust gas treatment device and device for implementing the procedure Suggested are a procedure for diagnosing a metering valve (14) of an exhaust gas treatment device (22), which doses a reagent (16) into the exhaust gas area (11) of a combustion process, whereby the reagent (16) is brought to a met... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930115 | Low-power flow meter and related method A method includes creating Coriolis-based deflection in at least one oscillating flow tube of a flow meter, which is caused by material flowing through the at least one flow tube. The method also includes determining a deflection amplitude and deflection period usin... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917313 | Method for monitoring a fluid transfer process The present invention relates to a method for monitoring a fluid transfer process, including the steps: providing an allowable pressure profile; detecting a pressure occurring in the course of the fluid transfer process; comparing detected pressure with the allowabl... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7904258 | System for measuring viscosity A system for determining a viscosity of a fluid is provided. The system includes an intake chamber, a tube, a piston, an actuator, a sensor, and a processor. The tube communicates with the intake chamber and includes a channel including a cylindrical portion with a ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7890275 | Planar elongational viscosity measuring method and planar elongational viscosity measuring apparatus A planar elongational viscosity measuring method and apparatus which can advance analysis of planar elongational viscosities for high-viscosity and low-viscosity fluids. As a bomb-shell like bob 2 is pushed into a container 6, a non-Newtonian fluid ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890276 | Pressure relief valve monitoring A pressure relief valve monitoring system and method is disclosed. In one aspect there is an online pressure relief valve monitoring system that includes at least one acoustic sensor located about a pressure relief valve that obtains ultrasonic measurements therefro... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885773 | Fluid flow measuring and proportional fluid flow control device Embodiments disclosed herein provide restrictive-flow flow measurement devices, valve improvements and signal control devices and processes that control the flow of liquids, including control processes for single-liquid calibration. In some embodiments, a fluid flow... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7860669 | System, program product, and related methods for estimating and managing crude gravity in flowlines in real-time Systems, program product, and methods to estimate and manage flowing fluid characteristics of a fluid stream flowing through a pipeline in real-time, are provided. A system can include a vertically oriented extent of a pipeline for transporting crude oil, a pair of ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7835874 | System and method for gas flow verification A gas flow rate verification apparatus is provided for shared use in a multiple tool semiconductor processing platform. The gas flow rate verification apparatus is defined to measure a pressure rate of rise and temperature within a test volume for determination of a... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7835875 | Determination of end of life of oil by electrical means Electrical measures of resistivity and permittivity of engine lubricating oil are gathered continuously under normal vehicle engine operating conditions and combined into a composite parameter, the aggregated electrical measure, which, is indicative of engine oil co... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7826987 | Method for detecting a condition of engine oil Provided is a method for detecting a condition of engine oil that allows the progress of degradation of engine oil to be more accurately determined without incurring any significant cost. In a method for detecting a state of engine oil by defining a degradation inde... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7788047 | Disposable, pre-calibrated, pre-validated sensors for use in bio-processing applications Disposable, pre-sterilized, and pre-calibrated, pre-validated conductivity sensors are provided. These sensors are designed to store sensor-specific information, such as calibration and production information, in a non-volatile memory chip on the sensor on in a barc... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7729869 | Electronic flow characteristic indicating flow meter An electronic flow meter having sensors to determine the temperature and flow rate of a fluid flowing through the flow meter and into a downstream circuit, such as a cooling water circuit, of known diameter is flowing under turbulent or laminar conditions based upon... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725272 | Methods and devices for monitoring fluid of an implantable infusion pump Methods and devices are described for monitoring reservoir fluid in an implantable infusion pump. Such methods and devices can be used when the infusion pump has a temperature-dependent component. For example, a method of monitoring reservoir fluid can include obtai... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7711500 | Pressure relief valve monitoring A pressure relief valve monitoring system and method is disclosed. In one aspect there is an online pressure relief valve monitoring system that includes at least one acoustic sensor located about a pressure relief valve that obtains ultrasonic measurements therefro... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7702473 | Submersible portable in-situ automated water quality biomonitoring apparatus and method A submersible biomonitoring system for monitoring water quality in situ includes a submersible chamber constructed of a di-electric material and sized to allow suitable signals from one or more aquatic organisms to be received by eliminating cross-talk between cells... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7689370 | On-line absolute viscosity measurement system The present invention provides systems and methods for determining the viscosity of a lubricating fluid in a process on line. The method of the present invention obviates the need to accurately control the temperature of the lubricating fluid in the system when taki... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7684939 | Method for designing an absorbent article A method for designing an absorbent article. The steps of the method are generating a physical spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a physical test environment, generating a virtual spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7672797 | Flow measurement in partially filled pipes using pulsed peak velocity doppler The present invention relates to a system and method for measurement of flow velocity using the transmission of a sequence of coherent pulsed ultrasonic signals into the flow, and sampling the received response signal at a predetermined delay time relative to the pu... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7643948 | Secure resource tracker A system for tracking resource parameters includes a resource having an associated memory tag; a parameter sensing element sensing a parameter of the resource; and a memory tag reader/writer. The system is configured to store information gathered from the parameter ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7634367 | Estimating fluidic properties and using them to improve the precision/accuracy of metered fluids and to improve the sensitivity/specificity in detecting failure modes A method for improving the accuracy or precision of a metered fluid includes: estimating a fluidic property of the fluid being metered; and adjusting one or more control parameters based on the estimated property to improve the accuracy or precision of a metered flu... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7610159 | Multivariable mass flow rate transmitter system and flow rate setting tool A system includes a multivariable mass flow rate transmitter having a mass flow rate computation section, and a flow rate setting tool which performs setup of the mass flow rate computation section, the flow rate setting tool including a parameter generation section... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7587288 | Condition discriminating apparatus for liquid reducing agent Each of a first and a second number of times is counted, in which the first number of times indicates a condition where a concentration of a liquid reducing agent indirectly measured based on a characteristic of heat transmission between two separated points is succ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7580801 | Monitoring of two-phased fluid flow In a method of monitoring two-phase fluid flow a vortex flowmeter is used to generate a signal indicative of the flow regime using the signal components and its fluctuations to determine the phase status of the fluid flow. ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7529633 | Application of carbon nanotube hold-off voltage for determining gas composition Method and system for determining chemical composition of a single-component or multiple-component gas, using a discharge holdoff mechanism. A voltage difference V between two spaced apart electrodes is brought to a selected value and held, the holdoff time interval... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7509219 | Correcting frequency in flowtube measurements Techniques are described for accurately measuring a density or other parameter of a fluid traveling through a vibratable conduit, using a flowmeter. The techniques involve obtaining measurements of a frequency of vibration of the conduit, as a function of a phase di... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7502695 | Flow assurance monitoring In one oil production operation, a fluid conduit transports a fluid from a well head to a floating production platform. To prevent an occurrence of formations that obstruct the flow of fluid in the fluid conduit, a forecast is made as to whether a flow assurance cur... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7499814 | Apparatus for detecting concentration and remaining amount of liquid reducing agent In a storage tank for storing a liquid reducing agent, a sensor for outputting a signal related to a concentration and a remaining amount of the liquid reducing agent based on a heat transfer characteristic between two points at a distance from each other is dispose... | 03/03/2009 |
