序号 专利名 申请号 申请日 公开(公告)号 公开(公告)日 发明人
121 FLOW MEMBER US15559468 2016-03-24 US20180104434A1 2018-04-19 Justin Edward ROTHERMEL
A flow member (200) is for a flow assembly (100) of a pressure support system (2). The pressure support system includes a patient interface device (6), a flow generator (4), and a coupling conduit (8). The flow assembly includes a cover (102) and a sensing assembly (110). The sensing assembly has a flow sensor (114) having flow sensing components (118,120). The flow member comprises: a body (202) comprising: a mounting portion (204) connected to the cover, thereby enclosing the sensing assembly, a gas conduit (206) at least partially overlaying the mounting portion, the second conduit fluidly coupling the first conduit to the flow generator, and a number of flow conduits (208,210) each extending transverse to the gas conduit (206) and receiving a corresponding flow sensing component. Each flow conduit terminates at a distal end portion (209,211) in fluid communication with the gas conduit (206), each distal end portion being spaced a distance from the gas conduit (206) and located internal with respect thereto.
122 Flow rate measuring device US14696553 2015-04-27 US09506794B2 2016-11-29 Kazuto Akagi; Naoyuki Kishikawa; Hiroyuki Uramachi; Hiroshi Sakanoue; Masahiro Kawai; Yuji Ariyoshi
A flow rate measuring device includes: a bypass passage; a flow rate detecting element; and a flow rate measuring circuit. The bypass passage includes: an inflow port; an outflow port; and a plurality of bent portions. The plurality of bent portions include first to third bent portions for forming U-shapes, and a fourth bent portion for bending the bypass passage bent at the third bent portion so as to be parallel to a mainstream flowing direction. The flow rate detecting element is arranged inside the bypass passage in a part after bending at the fourth bent portion. A route connecting the inflow port and the flow rate detecting element as a straight line is blocked by an inner wall surface of the bypass passage on an outer peripheral side, which is formed between the first bent portion and the second bent portion.
123 FLUID LOSS SENSOR AND METHOD US14904928 2014-07-14 US20160138955A1 2016-05-19 Fedderik VAN DER BOS; Jesper Wilhelmus WENTINK
The invention discloses a sensor and method for measuring fluid loss. The fluid loss sensor comprises: a first fluid container, comprising a permeable section, a fluid inlet and a first fluid outlet; a second fluid container enclosing an outer surface of the permeable section and having a second fluid outlet; and a fluid flow sensor for measuring fluid flow in the fluid outlet. The sensor comprises automated cleaning means, enabling automated cleaning for an automated drilling operation.
124 THERMAL, FLOW MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A THERMAL, FLOW MEASURING DEVICE US14551154 2014-11-24 US20150153208A1 2015-06-04 Martin Arnold; Jan Schirrecker; Axel Pfau
A thermal, flow measuring device for determining and/or monitoring the flow of a measured medium through a measuring tube, including a first sleeve, especially a first metal sleeve, and at least a second sleeve, especially a second metal sleeve, a first temperature sensor element and at least a second temperature sensor element. At least the first temperature sensor element is heatable and arranged in the first sleeve and the second temperature sensor element is arranged in the second sleeve. The thermal, flow measuring device has a piezoelectric transducer unit, which causes at least one of the sleeves to vibrate, as well as a method for operating a thermal, flow measuring device.
125 Method for Improving Accuracy of Multiphase Mixture Flowrate Measurement in A Pipeline US14513169 2014-10-13 US20150107328A1 2015-04-23 Alexander Starostin; Andrei Alexandrovich Osiptsov
To improve the accuracy of multiphase mixture flow rate measurements, properties of a multiphase mixture are determined under conditions expected inside a pipeline and flow regimes are determined for the expected flow rates. Slug reducing parameters of the pipeline are provided at a pipeline section and a flowmeter is installed at the end of that pipeline section.
126 Air flow measuring device having a sensor accommodated in a bypass flow passage US13547336 2012-07-12 US08950248B2 2015-02-10 Shinichi Kamiya; Noboru Kitahara
An air flow measuring device takes in part of intake air flowing through an intake passage. The device includes a housing and a sensor. The housing defines a bypass flow passage through which taken-in intake air passes and which has an outlet that opens on an outer wall of the housing. The sensor is accommodated in the bypass passage to produce an electrical signal as a result of heat transfer between taken-in intake air and the sensor. The outlet of the bypass passage includes vertical and non-vertical openings. The vertical opening opens toward a downstream side of a flow of intake air in the intake passage and is provided perpendicular to the flow of intake air. The non-vertical opening is provided non-perpendicularly to the flow of intake air in the intake passage. The outlet is a continuous stretch of opening where the vertical and non-vertical openings are continuously formed.
127 Air flow measuring device US13540765 2012-07-03 US08701474B2 2014-04-22 Hiroshi Tagawa
An air flow measuring device includes a housing, a sensor, and a projection portion. The housing defines a bypass flow passage through which taken-in intake air passes and which has an outlet that opens into an intake passage toward a downstream side of a mainstream of intake air. The sensor is accommodated in the bypass flow passage to produce an electrical signal as a result of heat transfer between the taken-in intake air and the sensor. The projection portion is provided on an outer wall of the housing on a downstream side of the outlet in the mainstream and extends outward of the housing. A projection-portion projected region and an outlet projected region, which are formed respectively by projecting the projection portion and the outlet perpendicularly onto a projection plane that is perpendicular to a direction of the mainstream, overlap with each other.
128 Sensor system for determining a parameter of a fluid medium US13119100 2009-08-13 US08607624B2 2013-12-17 Erhard Renninger; Achim Briese; Hans Hecht; Ulrich Wagner; Uwe Konzelmann; Christoph Gmelin
A sensor system for determining at least one parameter of a fluid medium flowing through a channel, in particular of an intake air mass of an internal combustion engine. The sensor system has at least one sensor chip situated in the channel for determining the parameter of the fluid medium. The sensor chip is accommodated in a sensor carrier that extends into the channel. The sensor carrier has an inflow edge situated transversely to the flow of the fluid medium, which on its part has at least one turbolator, which is equipped to develop turbulences in the flowing fluid medium in the area of the sensor carrier.
129 AIR FLOW MEASURING DEVICE US13547336 2012-07-12 US20130014573A1 2013-01-17 Shinichi KAMIYA; Noboru Kitahara
An air flow measuring device takes in part of intake air flowing through an intake passage. The device includes a housing and a sensor. The housing defines a bypass flow passage through which taken-in intake air passes and which has an outlet that opens on an outer wall of the housing. The sensor is accommodated in the bypass passage to produce an electrical signal as a result of heat transfer between taken-in intake air and the sensor. The outlet of the bypass passage includes vertical and non-vertical openings. The vertical opening opens toward a downstream side of a flow of intake air in the intake passage and is provided perpendicular to the flow of intake air. The non-vertical opening is provided non-perpendicularly to the flow of intake air in the intake passage. The outlet is a continuous stretch of opening where the vertical and non-vertical openings are continuously formed.
130 Thermal flow rate measuring device US11143971 2005-06-03 USRE42529E1 2011-07-12 Izumi Watanabe; Junichi Horie; Keiichi Nakada; Kei Ueyama
A thermal type flow rate measuring device can certainly prevent adhesion of water droplet onto a sensor element and thus achieve high reliability. The thermal type flow rate measuring device includes an auxiliary passage defined within a main passage for introducing a part of fluid flowing through the main passage, a sensor disposed within the auxiliary passage for detecting flow rate of the fluid and capturing means formed on an inner periphery of the auxiliary passage for capturing liquid contained in the fluid and transferring the captured liquid.
131 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANTI-FOULING AN ANEMOMETER US12901475 2010-10-08 US20110132398A1 2011-06-09 Ronald M. Barrett; Scott E. Cravens; Travis R. Cravens
An apparatus and method for adaptive materials arranged in a variety of orientations and with a wide range of attachment configurations to induce structural vibrations at extremely high frequencies. These mechanical vibrations cause fouling agents to become detached and accordingly “clean” an otherwise dirty element or wire of a hot-wire anemometer, planar or curvilinear sensor surface, or display surfaces. They also can be made to vibrate at such frequencies with such intensities that local droplets of water are either shaken off or instantaneously cavitate, thereby allowing the elements to be used in all weather conditions.
132 Equipment for measuring gas flow rate having an adjacent external surface protrusion US12341426 2008-12-22 US07752908B2 2010-07-13 Shinya Igarashi; Hiroshi Kikawa; Yasuhiro Asano; Naoki Saito
In a flow sensor, detecting elements are provided at a sub-passage. A sub-passage wall contains a hole to drain accumulated liquid. A protrusion arranged close to the hole on an external surface generates dynamic pressure on the opening in response to external flow. Alternatively, a protrusion upstream from the hole on the inner wall surface produces a separation flow area for separating the flow from the internal surface near the hole, whereby pressure in the separation area is reduced and almost the same pressure differences on the internal and external surfaces openings result. This reduces leakage from the hole and changes in the distribution flow in the sub-passage between cases where the hole is blocked and not blocked, thus minimizing flow measurement errors. Structure may be provided close to the external surface hole opening to prevent a liquid film or drop from being formed on the opening by surface tension.
133 DIFFERENTIAL-PRESSURE FLOW METER AND FLOW-RATE CONTROLLER US12489801 2009-06-23 US20100005904A1 2010-01-14 Hiroki IGARASHI
A differential-pressure flow meter is capable of easily eliminating adhesion to an orifice of an extraneous material. The differential-pressure flow meter includes: a pair of pressure sensors provided on a straight pipe part of a main fluid channel; an orifice unit interposed between the pair of pressure sensors; a columnar orifice body provided on the main fluid channel to be detachable in a direction orthogonal to a flow direction of a fluid in the main fluid channel; and an orifice hole penetrating the orifice body in the flow direction of the fluid, wherein the orifice body is rotatable at a prescribed installation position to reverse an upstream side and a downstream side with respect to the orifice hole, and flow rate measurement is performed by converting into a flow rate a difference in pressure that is obtained from two pressure values sensed respectively by the pair of pressure sensors.
134 Flow rate measuring device US11993803 2006-05-26 US07559256B2 2009-07-14 Naotsugu Ueda; Satoshi Nozoe
A flow rate measuring device has a flow channel including: a pair of first and second centrifugal chambers each having a curved wall surface; a first guiding flow channel allowing a first secondary flow channel to communicate with one end of the wall surface of the first centrifugal chamber; an intermediate flow channel allowing the other end of the wall surface of the first centrifugal chamber to communicate with one end of the wall surface of the second centrifugal chamber; a second guiding flow channel allowing the other end of the wall surface of the second centrifugal chamber to communicate with a second secondary flow channel; a first flow dividing channel communicating with the first centrifugal chamber; a second flow dividing channel communicating with the second centrifugal chamber; and a detection space portion, in which a detection element is placed.
135 Air Flow Measuring Instrument US12261700 2008-10-30 US20090126477A1 2009-05-21 Naoki Saito; Takeshi Morino; Yuki Okamoto; Keiji Hanzawa; Hiromu Kikawa; Akio Yasukawa
An air flow measuring instrument, comprising: an auxiliary passage 8 arranged inside a main passage through which fluid flows, a tabular member 5 on which a pattern of a heating resistor for measuring an air flow is provided on one face 5a, the tabular member being disposed inside the auxiliary passage so that the one face 5a on which the heating resistor pattern of the tabular member is provided is disposed along a flow of fluid inside the auxiliary passage 8, a heating resistor pattern-side fluid passage 8a portion formed so that the fluid flows between the face 5a and a passage-forming surface 8d of the auxiliary passage, and a back-surface 8b side fluid passage portion formed so that fluid flows between a face 5b on a side opposite to the face of the tabular member and the passage-forming surface of the auxiliary passage. Guidance portion 13 guiding dust that collides against the end portion to back-surface side fluid passage portion 8b side is provided on upstream-side end of tabular member.
136 Flow Rate Measuring Device US11993803 2006-05-26 US20080314140A1 2008-12-25 Naotsugu Ueda; Satoshi Nozoe
A flow rate measuring device has a flow channel including: a pair of first and second centrifugal chambers each having a curved wall surface; a first guiding flow channel allowing a first secondary flow channel to communicate with one end of the wall surface of the first centrifugal chamber; an intermediate flow channel allowing the other end of the wall surface of the first centrifugal chamber to communicate with one end of the wall surface of the second centrifugal chamber; a second guiding flow channel allowing the other end of the wall surface of the second centrifugal chamber to communicate with a second secondary flow channel; a first flow dividing channel communicating with the first centrifugal chamber a second flow dividing channel communicating with the second centrifugal chamber; and a detection space portion, in which a detection element is placed.
137 Flow meter with a rectifying module having a plurality of mesh members US11464595 2006-08-15 US07415895B2 2008-08-26 Shogo Kurisaki; Koichi Katsumata
A rectifying module is arranged on an upstream side of a flow passage containing a flow velocity sensor. The rectifying module includes mesh members each having a plurality of circular small holes and ring-shaped spacers, wherein the mesh members and the spacers are alternately stacked in an axial direction and integrally joined to one another by means of thermal diffusion bonding. The mesh members have identical structures, in which the plurality of small holes are arranged concentrically at angles of separation of 60 degrees in the circumferential direction about the center of a reference small hole. The small holes are formed over the entire surface of the mesh member continuous with adjoining other small holes. The small holes of one mesh member and another mesh member adjacent thereto in the axial direction are arranged so as to have a phase angle difference of 90 degrees in the circumferential direction.
138 Intake Air Amount Calculating System and Method of Internal Combustion Engine US11914338 2006-11-30 US20080196487A1 2008-08-21 Yusuke Suzuki
When it is predicted that an engine is going to be started in the near future, a heater portion of an air flow meter is energized so as to be heated in advance. Prior to the pre-heating, an intake air temperature is sensed by a temperature sensing portion of the air flow meter. After completion of start-up of an intake air temperature sensor, a difference between the intake air temperature sensed by the intake air temperature sensor and the previously sensed intake air temperature is obtained. When the difference is above a predetermined value, it is judged that the intake air temperature sensor or the air flow meter is in an abnormal condition.
139 Device and Method for Reducing The Contamination Of A Sensor US10583876 2005-02-01 US20080133118A1 2008-06-05 Joerg Brueckner; Dirk Foerstner; Dirk Stockmann; Joerg Winbermuehle; Matthias Illian
The invention relates to devices and methods for reducing the contamination of a sensor with which a sensor or sensor element—preferably a hot film air-mass meter—is deactivated when a software function integrated in the electronic control unit detects a possible contamination or a media carry-in. The sensor is deactivated using a high-side switch in the voltage supply or a low-side switch in the ground connection, wherein the media carry-in detection and the switch control are carried out by the control unit or an evaluation unit in the sensor. After the sensor is deactivated, a substitute signal is optionally generated that replaces the missing output signal of the sensor.
140 Air flow measuring device provided with a vent in air passage US11730716 2007-04-03 US07377161B2 2008-05-27 Hiromu Kikawa; Izumi Watanabe; Shinya Igarashi; Keiichi Nakada; Kei Ueyama
The present invention provides an air flow measuring device comprising a housing with a sub-passage having a inlet and a outlet for air flow formed in the housing, the sub-passage further having a predefined curvature with a maximum downstream point and a flow measuring element located in the sub-passage at a position at least further downstream from the point.
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