| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 141 | WATER PROFILE USED TO DETECT MALFUNCTIONING WATER APPLIANCES | US15819906 | 2017-11-21 | US20180259131A1 | 2018-09-13 | Shay Ravid; Alon Haim Gal; Dror Galron |
| A system is provided for determining from a location upstream of a plurality of water appliances, whether a specific water appliance is malfunctioning. The system may comprise at least one processor. The system may detect, from at least one sensor in a distributed water infrastructure upstream of the plurality of water appliances, a plurality of normal water usage profiles. The system may associate at least one of the plurality of normal water usage profiles with each of the plurality of water appliances. The system may store each of the plurality of normal water usage profiles in a manner associating each of the plurality of normal water usage profiles with an associated water appliance. The system may detect at least one current water usage profile. The system may compare the at least one current water usage profile with at least one of the stored normal water usage profiles to determine a corresponding identity of an associated water usage appliance and to determine if a substantial deviation exists between the stored normal water usage profile for the identified appliance and the at least one current water usage profile. The substantial deviation may be reflective of a potential malfunction in the associated water usage appliance. The system may initiate remedial action if the substantial deviation, reflective of a potential malfunction, is determined. | ||||||
| 142 | A METHOD OF MIXING AT LEAST TWO GASES | US15783754 | 2017-10-13 | US20180239374A1 | 2018-08-23 | Mark Joseph DOORE; Bradley Wallace; Gregory Caniglia |
| A method of mixing at least two gases is provided. This method includes providing a mixture composition control, including a predetermined composition input and a composition trim input. Providing N gas flow meters, including a N gas flows, and N desired gas flow rates determined by the mixture composition control, wherein N is 3 or more. Mixing the N gas flows, thereby producing a mixed gas flow at the predetermined composition and at a line pressure. Configuring the N flow meters to adjust the N gas flows to maintain the line pressure at a predetermined value, while maintaining the predetermined composition. And adjusting the composition trim input to vary the composition of the mixed gas, without modifying the predetermined composition input. | ||||||
| 143 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FLARE FLOW MEASUREMENT | US15866321 | 2018-01-09 | US20180195889A1 | 2018-07-12 | Anthony P. Skelding |
| Gas flow metering apparatus for obtaining flow measurements in respect of gas in a conduit is provided. The apparatus includes an ultrasonic mass flow meter including a first, upstream ultrasonic transducer, a second, downstream transducer, and a first calculation module for receiving data representative of an ultrasonic transit time between said transducers and calculating, using said data, a first flow velocity of said gas. The apparatus including at least one measurement device for measuring a flow parameter of said flow of gas through said conduit, a second calculation module for calculating, using said flow parameter, a second flow velocity of said gas, a verification module configured to select a preferred flow velocity from said first and second calculated flow velocities dependent upon expected accuracy in current gas flow conditions, and an output module for calculating, using said selected preferred flow velocity, a volumetric flow in respect of said gas flow. | ||||||
| 144 | ABNORMAL CONSUMPTION DETECTION DURING NORMAL USAGE | US15820144 | 2017-11-21 | US20180143613A1 | 2018-05-24 | Avy TAHAN; Dror GALRON; Shay RAVID |
| A system is provided for detecting abnormal consumption in one portion of a distributed water infrastructure while normal water usage occurs in another portion of the distributed water infrastructure. The system may comprise at least one processor. The system may receive from at least one sensor associated with the distributed water infrastructure indications of regular water usage. The system may determine, from a plurality of indications received over a time period, a plurality of baseline water usage profiles. The system may receive from the at least one sensor a current water usage profile. The system may compare the current water usage profile with the plurality of baseline water usage profiles. The system may determine an abnormal water consumption based on the comparison between the current water usage profile and the plurality of baseline water usage profiles. The system may generate an abnormal water consumption signal when abnormal water consumption is determined. | ||||||
| 145 | LOW FLOW DETECTION DURING PERIOD OF NO FLOW | US15820187 | 2017-11-21 | US20180143059A1 | 2018-05-24 | Avy Tahan; Dror Galron |
| A system is provided for detecting abnormal consumption in a distributed water infrastructure. The system may comprise at least one processor. The system may receive from at least one sensor associated with the distributed water infrastructure indications of regular water usage, wherein the distributed water infrastructure includes a plurality of water appliances. The system may determine from the indications received over a time period, at least one recurring time period of expected diminished water usage. The system may determine for the at least one recurring time period of expected diminished water usage at least one expected diminished water usage profile. The system may receive from the at least one sensor during a current time period of expected diminished water usage, real time indications of water usage, which may constitute a current water usage profile. The system may compare the current water usage profile during the expected period of diminished water usage with the at least one expected diminished water usage profile. The system may, based on the comparison, determine that water usage in the current water usage profile materially exceeds water usage in the at least one expected water usage profile. The system may execute a remedial action when, based on the comparison, the current water usage profile materially exceeds the at least one expected water usage profile. | ||||||
| 146 | DIFFERENTIATE USER BY THEIR WATER BEHAVIOR | US15819852 | 2017-11-21 | US20180143056A1 | 2018-05-24 | Alon Haim GAL |
| A system is provided for differentiating between water usage of multiple water consumers using a common distributed water infrastructure. The system may comprise at least one processor. The system may receive from a water sensor in the distributed water infrastructure upstream of a plurality of appliances, signals indicative of water usage. The system may construct from the signals indicative of water usage a plurality of water event profile signatures. The system may, based on differences between similar water event profiles, associate at least one water event profile signature with a first water consumer and associate a second water event profile signature with a second water consumer. The system may store the water event profile signatures for the first water consumer and the second water consumer. The system may construct current water event profiles reflecting subsequent water usage in the distributed water infrastructure. The system may compare the current water event profiles with water event profile signatures stored in memory. The system may, based on the comparison, attribute a first current water event profile to the first water consumer and attribute a second current water event profile to the second water consumer. The system may output data for generating at least one report of water usage by the first water consumer. | ||||||
| 147 | MULTIPHASE FLOW METERS AND RELATED METHODS | US15570497 | 2016-04-29 | US20180143052A1 | 2018-05-24 | Cheng-Gang Xie; Baptiste Germond; Guillaume Jolivet |
| Multiphase flow meters and related methods are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes an inlet manifold; an outlet manifold, first and second flow paths coupled between the inlet and outlet manifolds; and an analyzer to determine a flow rate of fluid flowing through the first and second flow paths based on a parameter of the fluid flowing through the first flow path. | ||||||
| 148 | Flow measurement probe with pitot tube and thermal flow measurement | US14501571 | 2014-09-30 | US09804011B2 | 2017-10-31 | David Russell Mesnard; Gregory Robert Strom; Nathaniel Kirk Kenyon |
| A flow measurement probe includes an elongate probe having an averaging pitot tube with a plurality of upstream and downstream openings arranged along a length of the elongate probe, and a thermal flow measurement sensor coupled to the elongate probe. A method of measuring fluid flow rate in a process includes calculating a flow rate of the fluid using differential pressure in upstream and downstream openings of an averaging pitot tube in an elongate probe when the differential pressure is at least a defined measurement threshold, and calculating the flow rate of the fluid with a thermal mass flow sensor coupled to the flow measurement probe when the differential pressure is less than the defined measurement threshold. | ||||||
| 149 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR METERING GAS | US15081265 | 2016-03-25 | US20170276527A1 | 2017-09-28 | Cheng-Po Chen; Nannan Chen; Mengli Wang |
| A system for metering gas includes a flow sensor and a controller. The flow sensor is disposed in a conduit in fluid connection with a flow of a gas through the conduit. The flow sensor includes a heater and a temperature sensing element, and generates an electrical output based on the flow of the gas. The controller controls operation of the heater and is operable in a pre-measurement mode and multiple measurement modes. The controller in the pre-measurement mode operates the heater at a pre-measurement setting. The controller in the measurement modes operates the heater at corresponding measurement settings that have increased power levels and/or increased operating durations relative to the pre-measurement setting. The controller in the measurement modes is configured to determine a flow rate of the gas based on an amplitude characteristic and/or a temporal characteristic of the electrical output of the flow sensor. | ||||||
| 150 | Flow meter device | US14410946 | 2013-06-28 | US09726532B2 | 2017-08-08 | Akihisa Adachi; Yuji Fujii; Yuji Nakabayashi; Hirokazu Gotou; Yukio Sakaguchi; Aoi Watanabe; Yasuharu Kawano |
| A flow meter device includes plural fluid passages which are provided between an inlet section into which a fluid flows and an outlet section from which the fluid flows out, and through which the fluid flows and flow value measuring units installed in the plural fluid passages, respectively. The flow value measuring units are configured to measure flow values of the fluid flowing through the fluid passages. The flow meter device further includes a control unit configured to determine whether or not to cause one or more of the flow value measuring units to stop a measuring operation of the flow value based on the flow values measured by the flow value measuring units. The control unit is further configured to determine whether or not to cause the one or more of the flow value measuring units to resume the measuring operation of the flow value, based on the flow value measured by the flow value measuring unit as a monitoring measuring unit which is other than the one or more of the flow value measuring units and is activated to perform the measuring operation of the flow value. | ||||||
| 151 | COMPOSITE MEMS FLOW SENSOR ON SILICON-ON-INSULATOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | US14875534 | 2015-10-05 | US20170097252A1 | 2017-04-06 | Liji Huang; Chih-Chang Chen |
| The present invention disclosed a micromachined composite silicon flow sensor that is comprised of calorimetric and anemometric flow sensing elements, time-of-flight sensing elements as well as independent temperature sensing elements on a silicon-on-insulator device where the device layer is used for the thermal isolation membrane. The disclosed composite silicon flow sensor can measure mass flowrate, volumetric flowrate and flow medium temperature simultaneously, from which a full spectrum of flow parameters including flow pressure can be obtained. The sensor can be further used to alert any changes in physical properties of flow medium during operation. The disclosed manufacture process details the micromachining process of making such a sensor. | ||||||
| 152 | Systems and Methods for Accurate Measurement of Gas from Wet Gas Wells | US15259275 | 2016-09-08 | US20170065932A1 | 2017-03-09 | Abdulmohsen S. Al-Kuait; Muhammad Arsalan |
| Systems and methods are described for liquid removal to increase the accuracy of gas flow meters, such as venturi meters. Systems and methods include a liquid knockout drum, an impingement plate, a drum separator, and a check valve. | ||||||
| 153 | Water meter systems and methods with bypass-flow path and rechargeable energy storage | US14135358 | 2013-12-19 | US09574923B2 | 2017-02-21 | James Scott Williamson; John Michael Killmeyer; Joshua James Malone; Walton Scott Corbitt; Walter Scott Williamson |
| A linear water meter system may include a metering system, a ball valve, a power generation system, a wireless communication system, or a combination thereof. The linear water meter system may provide a linear pathway through the meter that minimizes pressure loss in the system. Two pathways may be provided through the power generation system. One pathway may be utilized to generate power, and the other pathway may provide a bypass that can be utilized to maintain a desired water pressure level in the system. | ||||||
| 154 | System and method for combining co-located flowmeters | US13242822 | 2011-09-23 | US09316517B2 | 2016-04-19 | Graham W. Forbes; Kerry D. Groeschel |
| A system and method for ultrasonic flow metering. In one embodiment, an ultrasonic flow metering system includes a passage for fluid flow and a plurality of ultrasonic flowmeters. Each of the ultrasonic flowmeters includes a pair of ultrasonic transducers, and a flow processor. The pair of ultrasonic transducers is configured to form a chordal path across the passage between the transducers. The flow processor is coupled to the ultrasonic transducers. The flow processor is configured to measure the fluid flow through the spool piece based on outputs of the transducers of all of the ultrasonic flowmeters. | ||||||
| 155 | Hybrid sensor system for gas flow measurements | US13663819 | 2012-10-30 | US09222812B2 | 2015-12-29 | Ibne Soreefan |
| Disclosed are apparatus and methodology for measuring gas flow. A gas flow meter can include a plurality of sensors to detect a gas flow at various flow rates in the meter. A first sensor can detect a gas flow at a low flow rate and a second sensor can detect a gas flow when the flow rate is sufficient to produce an oscillating jet. The first sensor can be disposed parallel to the gas flow and detect the flow rate and the temperature of the gas flow. When the flow rate of the gas is below a predetermined threshold, power is supplied to the first sensor to detect gas flow. When the gas flow rate is high enough such that the gas flow produces an oscillating jet of fluid, power is supplied to the second sensor. The second sensor can detect the frequency of the oscillating jet flow. | ||||||
| 156 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING FUEL OIL DELIVERY | US14665507 | 2015-03-23 | US20150276452A1 | 2015-10-01 | Greg Haber; Craig Kirsch |
| The apparatus for monitoring the delivery of fuel oil through a fuel oil delivery pipe including a flow meter and temperature sensor associated with the oil delivery pipe for measuring the temperature and flow rate of the fuel oil as it moves through the pipe. The digital output signals from the flow meter/temperature sensor are used to generate data signals which are a function of the measured temperature and flow rate parameters. A memory records the data signals. The actual total quantity of fuel oil delivered through the pipe is calculated based upon the data signals. A clock circuit generates a timing signal reflecting the date and time the measurements were taken. A transmission signal formed of the calculated actual total quantity of fuel oil delivered and time signal may be sent to a remote location by a WiFi transmitter or through the internet using a modem. | ||||||
| 157 | Flow meter and use thereof for determining a flow of a medium, as well as a method therefor | US13487465 | 2012-06-04 | US08881601B2 | 2014-11-11 | Theodorus Simon Josef Lammerink; Joost Conrad Lötters; Marcel Dijkstra; Jeroen Haneveld; Remco John Wiegerink |
| The invention relates to a flow meter for determining a flow of a medium. The flow meter comprises a flow tube for transporting the medium whose flow is to be measured. The flow tube has a supply end and a discharge end disposed downstream thereof. The flow meter is provided with a first flow sensor for measuring the flow of the medium at a first position of the flow tube. The flow meter is provided with a second flow sensor for measuring the flow of the medium at a second position of the flow tube. | ||||||
| 158 | Gas flow meter with horizontal piston movement | US13530968 | 2012-06-22 | US08875586B2 | 2014-11-04 | Edward Albert Morrell |
| A method and a gas flow meter for measuring gas flow. A cylinder is supported in the flow meter with a horizontal orientation. A piston is disposed movably within the cylinder, the piston having a surface which forms a clearance seal with a surface of the cylinder. The piston may have a low-friction coating such as diamond-like carbon. A gas flow to be measured is received at a gas inlet, and directed to the cylinder so as to move the piston within the cylinder. The gas flow is directed by valves and conduits alternately to the two ends of the cylinder, for measuring the gas flow in both directions of the cylinder. From the detected movement of said piston electrical signals representative of the gas flow are generated. | ||||||
| 159 | Flow metering system | US13781903 | 2013-03-01 | US08746032B1 | 2014-06-10 | Murray F Feller |
| A flow measurement in a conduit is combined with a thermal flow measurement made in a bypass channel to provide an increased range of flows over which an accurate measurement can be made. The thermal flow sensor in this combination is responsive only to a modulated component of the flow and thus provides a means of calibrating the zero of the composite instrument. | ||||||
| 160 | Thermal flow sensor having an electromagnetic actuator for a cyclic flow modulator | US13781916 | 2013-03-01 | US08650946B1 | 2014-02-18 | Murray F Feller |
| A thermal flow sensor is responsive only to a modulated component of the flow. At zero flow the modulated component disappears, except for an artifact caused by motion of the modulator. This artifact is minimized by reducing the extent of modulator motion and by sampling the modulated signal at a quiescent part of the modulator's operating cycle. This results in a thermal flow sensor with a very stable zero. | ||||||
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