Patents Examined by Jewel V Dowtin
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Patent number: 10072470Abstract: A flow sensor assembly including a housing configured to couple to a fluid line, wherein the housing includes an inlet for receiving a flow of a first fluid, and a sensor coupled to the housing and configured to measure a flow level of a second fluid passing through the fluid line.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Cameron International CorporationInventors: Kim André Henriksen, Kenneth Torjussen
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Patent number: 10072958Abstract: A tube measures the differential pressure of a medium flowing through the tube. An insertion element for a tube as well as a method for assembling the insertion element and the tube are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: systec Controls Mess-und Regeltechnik GmbHInventor: Oliver Betz
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Patent number: 10072957Abstract: A system and method for providing a fluid flow strain gauge that may be mounted inside a pipe and connected to a base unit that uses capacitive or resistive technology to determine a direction and a rate of flow of a fluid through the pipe by measuring the force applied to the strain gauge by the flow of fluid.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Cirque CorporationInventors: Jared G. Bytheway, J. Douglas Moore, Ethan Sturm
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Patent number: 10072959Abstract: A system for sensing medicament delivery and transmitting an operation modification signal having at least two separable components is disclosed. The system includes a flow sensor having an inlet to couple to a fluid source, an outlet for delivering fluid from the fluid source to a patient, at least one sensor to characterize at least one attribute of the fluid, and at least one pin in in electrical communication with the sensor. The system includes a second component having a base having a contact, a controller in electrical communication with the contact that generates an operation modification signal in response to an attribute matching a condition specified by a rule, a transmitter for transmitting the operation modification signal to a device, the operation modification signal, when received by the device, causing the device to modify at least one operating parameter, and a cross-component electrical circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: CRISI Medical Systems, Inc.Inventor: Walter John Bochenko
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Patent number: 10060776Abstract: A spool, including a substantially cylindrical flange portion and a substantially cylindrical front end portion which is thinner than the flange portion and whose center axis is substantially coincident with the center axis of the flange portion, is provided in a manner capable of slidingly moving in a cavity formed in a casing. The flange portion is inserted in a first cavity which has a center axis substantially coincident with the center axis of the casing and which has an inner diameter that is substantially the same as the diameter of the flange portion in length. The front end portion is inserted in a second cavity which is formed with its center axis being substantially coincident with the center axis of the casing, and which has an inner diameter greater than the diameter of the front end portion and less than the inner diameter of the first cavity in length.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: YAMASHIN-FILTER CORP.Inventors: Jiro Inoue, Nobuki Sasaki, Hiroshi Inaba, Nobuyuki Kitajima
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Patent number: 10060824Abstract: An adjustable variable atmospheric condition testing apparatus for testing an object includes an outer chamber, an inner chamber positioned inside and in fluid communication with the outer chamber, a vacuum pump configured to remove gas from the inner and outer chambers, and further configured to expel the removed gas via an exhaust, an intake configured to selectively introduce gas from ambient into the inner chamber via a valve, such that the introduced gas interacts with the object, and a sensor positioned downstream of the object and configured to detect a characteristic of the gas interacting with the object.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Ryan Okerson, Andrew Doyle, Cameron Close, Filip Finodeyev, Joshua Giegel, Kaveh Hosseini
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Patent number: 10060778Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for measuring airflow. In one example, an airflow monitor includes an ion generator positioned in a controlled space, an ion detector positioned in the controlled space and spaced from the ion generator, and a controller configured to receive a signal from the ion detector, to measure a time between emission of ions from the ion generator and detection of ions at the ion detector, and to calculate a speed of airflow between the ion generator and the ion detector based on the measured time.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2014Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: SCHNIEDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventors: Jeffrey Stephen Beam, Daniel J. Rohr
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Patent number: 10060774Abstract: An in-line, impeller type flowmeter having an inlet flow taper section to converge flow to a measurement chamber and an outlet flow taper section after the measurement chamber, and further exhibiting a high turn-down ratio above about 30:1, and being suitable for use with a pipe having a nominal inner diameter no greater than one inch.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: CREATIVE SENSOR TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Norman F. Bartlett, Charles Woringer, Thomas Duce
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Patent number: 10054472Abstract: A fluid flow meter includes a flow meter body with a central flow passage and flow restriction opening defined therein. Fluid pressure is measured at the flow restriction opening and compared to fluid pressure measured at an upstream point. An annular flow region is defined within the flow meter body radially between the flow restriction opening and a pressure detection port.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Inventor: Joel David Bell
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Patent number: 10041924Abstract: Provided are a concentration-factor measurement device and method for accurately calculating a concentration factor of circulating water, and a method for measuring a water-quality index value of the circulating water. The concentration-factor measurement device includes a light-absorbance measurement unit (1) for measuring absorbance by irradiating each of cells (12A-12C) with light, and an electrode measurement unit (2) equipped with electrodes (16, 17) that are inserted into a water sample in a container (20). For each item of water quality, the device calculates a concentration factor on the basis of a measured value measured when the water sample (W) is the circulating water, and a measured value measured when the water sample (W) is makeup water. A plurality of concentration factors are calculated on the basis of the measured values for plural items of water quality. Hence an accurate concentration factor can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: KURITA WATER INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventors: Shintarou Mori, Yukimasa Shimura
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Patent number: 10042368Abstract: A flow rate measuring unit, comprising a housing, which is composed of at least two housing parts that can be connected to one another and in which a flow passage extends, which branches off into a measuring channel branch and at least one bypass channel branch, wherein a substrate comprising a sensor system is disposed in the measuring channel branch. According to the invention, the flow passage includes a channel widening chamber in which an insert plate stack composed of at least two insert plates is disposed, which each include at least one plate-longitudinal recess extending in the longitudinal direction as the measuring channel branch and/or as the bypass channel branch. The insert plates are provided as insert parts for the channel widening chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Axetris AGInventors: Stefan Bürgi, Adrian Dänzer, Christoph Bächler
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Patent number: 10036662Abstract: To accurately calibrate fluid control equipment. A flow rate calculation system includes: a container in which gas is enclosed; a weight measurement part on which the container is disposed; a gas line which connects the container and fluid control equipment and in which the gas flows; and an enclosing line for enclosing the gas in the container disposed on the weight measurement part, thereby allowing the gas to flow from the container to the fluid control equipment or from the fluid control equipment to the container in a state that the container is disposed on the weighing measurement part, and calculating a flow rate of the gas flowing to the fluid control equipment based on an output value outputted from the weight measurement part, and the container and the weight measurement part are adapted to be placed in a decompressed decompression chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: HORIBA STEC, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daniel Thomas Mudd, William Wylie White
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Patent number: 10031007Abstract: A gas, whose flow rate is adjusted by a flow rate controller as a measurement target, is supplied into a processing vessel in a state that a third valve of the gas supply system provided at an upstream side of the processing vessel is opened. While the gas is continuously supplied, the third valve is closed after a pressure measurement value of a pressure gauge within a flow rate controller for pressure measurement is stabilized. After the third valve is closed, an output flow rate of the flow rate controller as the measurement target is calculated from a previously known volume of the gas supply system in which the gas supplied through the flow rate controller as the measurement target is collected and a rise rate of the pressure measurement value of the pressure gauge within the flow rate controller for pressure measurement with respect to time.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Norihiko Amikura, Risako Miyoshi
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Patent number: 10031004Abstract: A mass flow verifier (MFV) that is space-efficient and can verify flow rates for unknown fluids over a wide range of flow rates includes a chamber configured to receive a fluid, a critical flow nozzle connected to the chamber, and first and second pressure sensors that, respectively, detect fluid pressure in the chamber and upstream of the critical flow nozzle. A controller of the MFV is configured to verify flow rate of the fluid by, (i) at a first flow range, measuring a first flow rate based on a rate of rise in pressure of the fluid as detected by the first pressure sensor and determining a gas property function of the fluid based on pressures as detected by the first second pressure sensors, and (ii) at a second flow range, measuring a second flow rate based on pressure detected by the second pressure sensor and the determined gas property function.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: MKS Instruments, Inc.Inventors: Junhua Ding, Michael L'Bassi, Wayne Cole
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Patent number: 10024877Abstract: A method of making an air data probe may comprise forming a probe body, forming an interior cavity into the probe body, applying a protective shell to the probe body by an additive manufacturing technique, inserting a heating element into the interior cavity, machining a final profile of the air data probe, and forming a sensing port comprising a port passage defined through the probe body and lined by a portion of the protective shell.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Rosemount Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Thomas Golly, Matthew P. Anderson, Paul Robert Johnson, Greg Seidel
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Patent number: 10024700Abstract: The present invention is configured to, on the basis of an upstream side parameter having a value that is related to a change rate of an upstream side voltage when a flow rate of measuring target fluid changes, and a downstream side parameter having a value that is related to a change rate of a downstream side voltage when the flow rate of the measuring target fluid changes, calculate a fluid-specific value exhibiting a specific value depending on the thermal conductivity of the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: HORIBA STEC, CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Shirai, Hiroyuki Okano
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Patent number: 10018489Abstract: A fluid flow velocity sensor using a differential pressure measurement includes a stack having a tip pointing in a first direction, the stack including first and second plates arranged in parallel one another along the first direction; and a pressure-sensitive diaphragm arranged between the first and second plates along the first direction, the pressure-sensitive diaphragm being spaced apart from the first plate by a first cavity and from the second plate by a second cavity. The first cavity is entirely sealed, except at the tip of the stack, so as to be under a stagnation pressure during operation of the fluid flow velocity sensor. The second cavity is opened so as to be under a reference pressure during operation of the fluid flow velocity sensor. The fluid flow velocity sensor includes a detector to measure a parameter representative of the differential pressure between the first and the second cavities.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Iouri Moukharski, Alan Braslau
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Patent number: 10018648Abstract: A fluid sensing device includes an outer body, an inner body coupled to the outer body by one or more inner body support struts and extending at least partially out from the outer body, and an aft body disposed at least partially within the outer body at a location aft of the inner body, the aft body being coupled to the outer body by one or more aft body support struts. The inner body includes a hollow interior for housing one or more inner body sensors, and the aft body houses one or more aft body sensors. The fluid sensing device can measure one or more parameters of fluid flow at high angularity, such as total temperature and total pressure, locally and simultaneously, allowing additional fluid parameters, such as local entropy, to be calculated.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: University of KansasInventors: Saeed Farokhi, Ray R. Taghavi, Shawn S. Keshmiri
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Patent number: 10010674Abstract: A novel enhanced infusion pump system is adapted for dispensing medicament from a flow material reservoir Software used in conjunction with a pressure sensor can determine a backstroke volume of medicament that can be used to calculate the volume of medicament in the flow material reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Rosinko, Paul M. DiPerna
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Patent number: 10012523Abstract: A method for operating a Coriolis mass flowmeter having at least one measuring tube, at least one oscillation generator, at least one oscillation sensor and at least one strain sensor. The oscillation generator is actuated with an oscillation excitation signal and the measuring tube is excited to oscillation by the oscillation generator, the oscillation of the measuring tube is detected by the oscillation sensor and an oscillation sensor signal is generated. The strain sensor is mechanically coupled to the measuring tube via a connection. A change of the mechanical coupling via the connection can be determined by the oscillation of the measuring tube being measured by the strain sensor and a strain sensor signal generated representing oscillation of the measuring tube, a correlation between the strain sensor signal and an oscillation signal representing the oscillation of the measuring tube is identified, and a temporal change of the correlation is determined.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: KROHNE Messtechnik GmbHInventors: Kourosh Kolahi, Ralf Storm