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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8113033 | Method to calibrate a flow balance valve on a windrower draper header A simplified method for calibrating a variable-displacement hydraulic PTO system on an agricultural windrower when powering a header wherein the variable-displacement pump is operated at maximum flow capacity while the engine is operated at a pre-determined speed an... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8042376 | Fuel dispenser utilizing pressure sensor for theft detection A method of determining whether a measured fuel delivery rate determined by a fuel meter of a fuel dispenser corresponds to an actual fuel delivery rate at which fuel is being dispensed to a vehicle through a fuel flow path. The method includes measuring a fuel deli... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7984637 | System and method for field calibration of flow meters A calibration system for a flow meter includes a flow simulator, the flow simulator including a receiver configured to receive flow meter transducer signals from a flow meter. A simulation subsystem is configured to create simulated transit time signal pulses, and t... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7918122 | Container transport system and measurement container A stocker 1 includes a storage FOUP 20, plural purge units 50, a measurement FOUP 30 and a stacker crane 60. The storage FOUP 20 stores a semiconductor wafer inside. The measurement FOUP 30 includes a flow meter insid... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7802462 | Gas flowmeter calibration stand A gas flow stand (200) is provided according to an embodiment of the invention. The gas flow stand (200) includes a weighing device (210) and a meter under test (203) positioned on the weighing device (210). The gas flow stand (... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7762118 | Auto-positioning ultrasonic transducer system An ultrasonic transducer apparatus and process for determining the optimal transducer position for flow measurement along a conduit outer surface. The apparatus includes a transmitting transducer for transmitting an ultrasonic signal, said transducer affixed to a co... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7654127 | Malfunction detection in infusion pumps The present application is directed to systems and methods associated with infusion pumps, which can optionally utilize an electrokinetic driving mechanism. Infusion pumps, including electrokinetically-driven pumps, are discussed, along with schemes for controlling ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7614273 | Method for detecting corrosion, erosion or product buildup on vibrating element densitometers and Coriolis flowmeters and calibration validation A method and apparatus for validating the flow calibration factor of a Coriolis flowmeter. In accordance with a first embodiment, an improved material density is obtained by measuring material density when the temperature of the material is equal to a predetermined ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7603885 | Method for testing a mass flow rate meter A method of testing a mass flow rate meter functioning on the Coriolis principle, in which an apparatus of the mass flow rate meter is subjected to a predetermined oscillation excitation and the associated oscillation response is recorded. Then the recorded oscillat... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7516641 | Flow sensor methods and apparatus Apparatus and methods of calibrating a microfluidic flow sensor, in which the flow of a fluid through a flow sensor is stopped and a first value is read from the flow sensor, then the fluid is pumped through the flow sensor sequentially at first and second selected ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7506532 | Method for calibrating ultrasound clamp-on flowmeters A position difference is created by mutual translation of sound transducers and the associated time difference is measured. Radiating surfaces of both sound transducers are arranged acoustically opposing one another in planes that are parallel to one another. The so... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7441437 | Calibration rig A calibration rig for calibration and/or re-calibration of flow meters (5) and/or flow meter calibration carts (7) is described comprising: a source (1) of pure sterilized water or a source (40) of a sterile conductive solution, a piping ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438152 | Airflow sensing method and apparatus for impact detection Impacts with a vehicle body panel are detected by sensing airflow inboard of the vehicle body panel. The airflow can be measured by heated element sensor, a Pitot tube sensor, a venturi sensor or other airflow-responsive sensor. For side impact detection, the sensor... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7424895 | Method and system for flow measurement and validation of a mass flow controller Systems and methods for flow verification and validation of mass flow controllers are disclosed. A mass flow controller may be commanded to a specified flow and flow measurement commenced. During an interval, gas is accumulated in a first volume and measurements tak... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7412986 | Method and system for flow measurement and validation of a mass flow controller Systems and methods for flow verification and validation of mass flow controllers are disclosed. A mass flow controller may be commanded to a specified flow and flow measurement commenced. Gas is accumulated in a first volume and while measurements are taken within ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409871 | Mass flow meter or controller with inclination sensor A thermal mass flow meter associated with an inclination sensor that detects an angle of inclination of at least one portion of a thermal mass flow sensor relative to at least one reference axis. Based upon the detected angle of inclination, the output signal of the... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7373285 | Application of phase behavior models in production allocation systems The present invention is directed to a method for allocating revenue or taxes to individual fluid streams commingled during an oil and gas production process, the method includes commingling fluid streams to produce a commingled fluid stream; (2) utilizing a process... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7359803 | Apparatus and method for measuring parameters of a mixture having solid particles suspended in a fluid flowing in a pipe An apparatus 10,70 and method is provided that includes a spatial array of unsteady pressure sensors 15-18 placed at predetermined axial locations X1-XN disposed axially along a pipe 14 for measuring at least one par... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353687 | Reference leak A reference leak includes a leak layer formed of one of a metallic material, a glass material, and a ceramic material. The metallic material is selected from the group consisting of copper, nickel, and molybdenum. The leak layer comprises a number of substantially p... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7337084 | Switch-activated zero checking feature for a Coriolis flowmeter Descriptions are provided for implementing flowmeter zero checking techniques. In operating a flowmeter, it may be the case that, even if previously calibrated, the flowmeter will produce erroneous measurements, e.g., will indicate a non-zero flow during a period of... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7313497 | Valve monitoring method and arrangement A method and apparatus or arrangement, for monitoring the operating characteristics of valves, principally to monitor for failure of a valve. The method including measuring a pressure differential across a valve 1 and comparing the measured differential with ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7306951 | Method and apparatus for determining diffusible hydrogen concentrations A measuring apparatus and method for use in measuring diffusible hydrogen concentrations in materials, structures, and other objects. In an embodiment of the invention for use in welding applications, the measuring apparatus (10) includes a sensor assembly ( | 12/11/2007 |
| 7295292 | Methods and systems for measuring an aberated wave front Methods and systems are described for a system for measuring aberrations in a wave front. In the improved system multiple closely-spaced, small-aperture laser beams traverse an aberrating flow that introduces deflections of small-aperture laser beams from which aber... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7281522 | Acceleration sensor status detecting apparatus An acceleration sensor state detecting apparatus for detecting a state of an acceleration sensor provided at a vibrating body includes a calculating method for calculating a difference between measured results of the acceleration sensor obtained per first predetermi... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266467 | Method to calibrate hydraulic flow valves in situ A method for performing system characterization in situ for a system comprising a actuator controlled by a proportional controller. The system includes a quasi-linear region characterized by a slope of the system response and by a delay in the quasi-linear region of... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260486 | Method for operating and/or reviewing a magneto-inductive flow meter A flow meter includes a measuring tube for conveying a fluid to be measured and a magnetic field system, which has at least one field coil, through which an exciter current (IM) flows, at least at times, for producing a magnetic field passing through the ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258008 | Micro-electro-mechanical gyroscope having electrically insulated regions An Integrated gyroscope includes a suspended mass; mobile actuation electrodes extending from the suspended mass; and a sensing mass connected to the actuation mass through coupling springs. The suspended mass is formed by an external part and an internal part, elec... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257503 | Method for recalibrating a material attribute monitor for a mobile vehicle A method for recalibrating a material attribute monitor for a mobile vehicle includes accumulating an aggregate amount of material from a plurality of material transfers; accumulating a plurality of material attribute data sets via a series of data transfers from at... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7249530 | Oil consumption simulating device An engine lubrication system simulating device is provided, having a reservoir configured to contain engine oil. The simulating device may also include an agitation device configured to agitate oil in the reservoir. In addition, the simulating device may include a c... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249486 | Method for monitoring a sensor The present invention concerns a method of monitoring a sensor for sensing the flow speed of a medium. The invention further concerns an apparatus for carrying out that method. In order to be able to monitor the sensor, without providing redundant sensors, the flow ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7246941 | Sensing media temperature in an HVAC valve An apparatus and method are provided for determining the temperature of an operating fluid media in an HVAC system. An integral temperature sensor, mounted within an actuator of an actuator-driven HVAC valve, senses the temperature of a valve body of the HVAC valve.... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7229843 | Device and method for monitoring process exhaust gas, semiconductor manufacturing device, and system and method for controlling semiconductor manufacturing device Process exhaust gas is sampled, and the components of the process exhaust gas are analyzed by a Fourier-transform infrared spectroscope (FT-IR) (26). The analysis result is compared with a reference analysis result obtained from an analysis of process exhaust... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225085 | Precision gas flow meter A precision gas flow meter that is capable of measuring small flow rates of gasses precisely in the range of 0.01 to 10 L per minute. The meter is designed to measure the gas flow in small volume increments of predetermined value, and therefore can be used to measur... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7213440 | Calibration and validation for a leak detector A leak test arrangement having a leak calibration device is disclosed. The calibration device is connected into communication with the leak test arrangement and provides a controlled source (sink) of fluid at a predetermined amount. The calibration includes a substa... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7201033 | Flowmeter in-situ calibration verification system A calibration system includes a tube or other conduit, a gas source, and a computational device. The tube has an end positioned relative to a flow sensor, and is in communication with the gas source. The tube and gas source introduce calibration gas into the tube at... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7189358 | Integrated micropump analysis chip and method of making the same An integrated micropump or a plurality of integrated micropumps are communicated to a plurality of analysis chambers. A plurality of integrated analysis chambers include integrated analysis devices to test a fluid for an analyte. The micropumps continuously or perio... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7181323 | Computerized method for generating low-bias estimates of position of a vehicle from sensor data A computerized method generates unbiased estimates of parameters such as position, velocity, and acceleration of a vehicle. The method assigns initial vehicle states. Unbiased vehicle state estimates are obtained using a model incorporating a unique parameterization... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177725 | System for the monitor and control of rest rooms The present invention is directed to a rest room control system including one or more sensors configured to monitor or control a function associated with the rest room. The system also includes a controller operably coupled to the one or more sensors, and configured... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7152460 | Apparatus and method for compensating a coriolis meter A flow measuring system is provided that provides at least one of a compensated mass flow rate measurement and a compensated density measurement. The flow measuring system includes a gas volume fraction meter in combination with a coriolis meter. The GVF meter measu... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155319 | Closed loop control on liquid delivery system ECP slim cell A method for controlling liquid delivery in a processing chamber. The method includes generating an analog input (AI) signal proportional to a process variable and calculating an analog output (AO) signal based on a setpoint and a deadband. The setpoint is a target ... | 12/26/2006 |
