Abstract: Synthetic quartz glass powder is produced by (a) hydrolyzing an alkoxysilane to form a gel, (b) finely dividing the gel and then drying, or drying the gel and then finely dividing, and (c) calcining the obtained powder, the powder being maintained under an atmosphere with an oxygen concentration of not less than 30 vol % during at least a part of the calcining period at a temperature of not lower than 1,000.degree. C.

Abstract: A fluidic flowmeter is located downstream of a valve. A wire gauze or net having small meshes is located on the upstream side of a nozzle forming the inlet to the fluidic element to stabilize flow.

Abstract: An automatic power generation type flowmeter generates a measuring signal through measuring of a flow rate of fluid flowing through a passage and transmits it to a receiver at a remote location. The flowmeter includes a power generator coupled to a detection shaft rotated under an action of a fluid flowing through the passage and outputting an electric signal. The power generator includes a permanent magnet having S- and N-poles, an electromagnetic coil having a core around its axis and arranged adjacent to the magnet with the axis of the coil located in a direction substantially perpendicular to a rotation shaft, a first stator magnetically coupled to the core and having its magnetic induction portion arranged opposite to the N-pole of the magnet, and a second stator magnetically connected to the core and having its magnetic induction portion arranged opposite to the S-pole of the magnet.

Abstract: A meter for a liquid, such as water, comprises a measuring circuit (55) for measuring those measuring periods in response to a detection pulse sequence resulting from rotation of a body (30) rotated by the liquid, each of which may be defined either by a period of one complete rotation of the body or a predetermined interval, such as six seconds. The circuit produces measurement signals representative of individual amounts of the liquid used with the individual amounts accompanied by detection errors resulting from a variable flow rate of the liquid. A totalizing circuit (61), which may comprise an ROM or consist of a microcomputer, totalizes the individual amounts with the detection errors reduced.

Abstract: A flow meter comprises a fan wheel provided in a passage of a running fluid to be rotated thereby; a composite magnetic wire formed of a core and shell and fitted to the fan wheel; a pair of mutually facing permanent magnets arranged substantially in parallel above a plane through which the composite magnetic wire is rotated, with the poles of the opposite polarities set adjacent to each other; a magnetic core wound with a coil and disposed between the paired permanent magnets, and wherein, when the composite wire faces one of the paired permanent magnets, the alignment direction of the respective magnetic domains of the core of the composite magnetic wire is changed, and when the composite wire faces the other of the paired permanent magnets, the respective magnetic domains of the core of the composite magnetic wire regains the alignment direction before said change.

Abstract: In a diaphragm type gas meter, one crank plate pivotally mounting a pair of diaphragm movement transmission levers and the other crank plate pivotally mounting a pair of valve actuating levers overlap each other rockably around the central axis of a crank shaft. The relative angular position of the two plates is controlled e.g. by an eccentric cam. On a diaphragm control wall member for restricting the stroke end of the reciprocation of each measuring diaphragm of said gas meter are formed two inclined diaphragm control surfaces with different angles of inclination. Further, on a lower casing of the gas meter is integrally die-cast a partition wall with triangular section flush with the top surface of the lower casing and defining a discharge-side valve chamber and a discharge passage.

Abstract: In a prepayment fluid feeder, a depressing member forces down a valve driving member through a coin located in a coin interposing space by an operation of a handle. When the driving member is depressed, a valve member is shifted to an open position, and a fluid such as tap water is supplied through a flow pipe. The driving member is locked by a locking mechanism in a position to which the member is depressed. A releasing mechanism acts on the locking mechanism and releases the locking of the driving member when the supply of a predetermined flow quantity is completed with a single coin, and the valve member is returned to the closed position, thereby stopping the supply of the fluid. The releasing mechanism comprises a setting wheel with notches formed on the outer periphery thereof and balls placed in the notches.

Abstract: A flow meter for measuring the consumption of a fluid such as tap water and indicating it digitally at a remote place from the detecting section, having a pulse generator; means for giving intermittent rotation to the rotor of the generator which comprises a cam plate with a dwell portion of the same radius and a plurality of recesses formed at the outer periphery thereof, a driving disc placed coaxially therewith and capable of rotating relatively to the cam plate within a prescribed angle, and an intermittently-driven member provided with a plurality of projections capable of being engaged with said recesses at the outer periphery thereof correspondingly to the cam plate and connected to the rotor shaft of the pulse generator; and a pulse motor capable of operating the indicating wheels by using the pulse voltage from the pulse generator.

Abstract: An electronic integration calorimeter comprises a temperature difference detector for detecting a difference between the temperature of a heat medium flowing into a heat load and the temperature of the heat medium flowing out of the heat load, and a flow pulse generator for generating a flow pulse signal having the number of pulses proportional to the flow of the heat medium. The flow pulse signal of said flow pulse generator is shaped by a pulse shaping circuit into a flow pulse signal having a predetermined pulse width. A temperature difference pulse generator is adapted to generate a temperature difference pulse signal having the number of pulses proportional to the output voltage of the temperature difference detector and to be controlled by the shaped flow pulse signal so as to generate a pulse signal obtained by ANDing together the temperature pulse signal and the flow pulse signal. The ANDed pulse signal is supplied to a counter where pulses included in the pulse signal are counted.