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Fluid characteristic sensing device

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专利汇可以提供Fluid characteristic sensing device专利检索,专利查询,专利分析的服务。并且A device for sensing a characteristic, such as velocity or viscosity, of a fluid flowing through a flow conductor, the device having a housing connectable to the flow conductor and a tubular strain member having a longitudinal passage of the same internal diameter as the flow conductor disposed within the housing and constituting a section of the flow conductor, the strain member and the housing providing an annular chamber about the strain member, the fluid pressure of a fluid flowing through the flow conductor being communicated to the annular chamber by ports in the strain member or by a bypass conductor, and a plurality of strain gages spaced longitudinally of and bonded to the strain member and connected in a Wheatstone bridge circuit, the resistances of the strain gages at an upstream portion of the strain member varying as tension forces imposed on the upstream portion of the strain member and the resistances of strain gages at a downstream portion of the strain member varying as the compression forces imposed on the downstream portion by fluid flowing therethrough. The Wheatstone bridge provides an output voltage or signal which varies in accordance with the velocity of flow of the fluid through the strain member if the velocity of flow may vary and thus acts as a flow meter, or which varies in accordance with the viscosity of the fluid flowing through the strain member if the velocity of the fluid is constant and its viscosity may vary. The sensing device may also include means for sensing the temperature of the fluid to provide an output signal to a computer to which the output of the Wheatstone bridge is also transmitted so that the computer may provide an output signal, which is indicative of a certain characteristic of the fluid flowing therethrough, to a controlled device, such as a transducer, electrically operable valve, recorder and the like.,下面是Fluid characteristic sensing device专利的具体信息内容。

1. A sensing device including: an elongate housing connectable in a flow conductor; a tubular strain member disposed in said housing having opposite ends fixedly connected to said housing, said strain member having a longitudinally straight flow passage constituting a section of the flow passage of a flow conductor to which the housing is connectable and being coaxial with the flow passage of the conductor; individual sensing means secured to said strain member at longitudinally spaced locations for sensing forces exerted on upstream and downstream portions of said strain member caused by fluids flowing through said flow passage of said strain member, and means providing fluid communication between said chamber and the flow passage of said strain member for balancing the pressures internally and externally of said strain member.
2. The sensing device of claim 1, and first means operatively associated with said sensing means for providing an electric signal which varies in accordance with the longitudinal forces exerted on said strain member sensed.
3. The sensing device of claim 2, and second means for sensing the temperature of a fluid flowing through said strain member and having an electric value which varies with the temperature.
4. The sensing device of claim 3, and third means operatively associated with said first means and said second means for providing a signal which varies in a predetermined manner in accordance with said electric signal and said electric value.
5. The sensing device of claim 4, said means for sensing longitudinal forces exerted on an upstream portion of said strain member comprising a first pair of strain gauges secured to oppositely facing surfaces of an upstream portion of said strain member and said means for sensing longitudinal forces exerted on a downstream portion of said strain member comprising a second pair of strain gauges secured to oppositely facing surfaces of said strain member.
6. The sensing device of claim 5, wherein said strain gauges are connected in a Wheatstone bridge for causing increases in the electric resistance of said first pair of strain gauges and decreases in the resistances of said secured pair of strain gauges both tending to cause unbalance of said Wheatstone bridge in such manner as to increase the output signal of said Wheatstone bridge.
7. The sensing device of claim 6, an intermediate portion of said strain member between said upstream and downstream portions of said strain member being mechanically weakened.
8. The sensing device of claim 7, wherein said means for providing fluid communication comprises port means in an intermediate portion of said strain member.
9. The sensing device of claim 8, and means for imposing a predetermined longitudinal stress on said strain member.
10. The sensing device of claim 9, wherein said stress imposing means is adjustable to vary the longitudinal stress in said strain member.
11. The sensing device of claim 7, wherein said means for providing fluid communication comprises conduit means for connecting said chamber to an upstream portion of the flow conductor in which said housing is connectable
12. The sensing device of claim 1, said means for sensing longitudinal strain forces exerted on an upstream portion of said strain member comprising a first pair of strain gauges secured to oppositely facing surfaces of an upstream portion of said strain member and said means for sensing longitudinal forces exerted on a downstream portion of said strain member comprising a second pair of strain gauges secured to oppositely facing surfaces of said strain member.
13. The sensing device of claim 12, wherein said strain gauges are connected in a Wheatstone bridge for causing increases in the electric resistance of said first pair of strain gauges and decreases in the resistances of said secured pair of strain gauges both tending to cause unbalance of said Wheatstone bridge in such manner as to increase the output signal of said WhEatstone bridge.
14. The sensing device of claim 13, an intermediate portion of said strain member between said upstream and downstream portions of said strain member being mechanically weakened.
15. The sensing device of claim 14, wherein said means for providing fluid communication comprises port means in an intermediate portion of said strain member.
16. The sensing device of claim 15, and means for imposing a predetermined longitudinal stress on said strain member.
17. The sensing means of claim 16, wherein said stress imposing means is adjustable to vary the longitudinal stress in said strain member.
18. The sensing device of claim 17, wherein said means for providing fluid communication comprises conduit means for connecting said chamber to an upstream portion of the flow conductor in which said housing is connectable.
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