Measuring and testing – Vibration – By mechanical waves
Patent
1991-08-22
1993-10-26
Williams, Hezron E.
Measuring and testing
Vibration
By mechanical waves
73 6453, 73 6179, G01N 2918
Patent
active
052555640
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus is provided for identifying an unknown liquid by determining the speed of sound in the liquid. A pulse generator provides an excitation pulse to a first acoustic transducer which transmits an acoustic pulse in the liquid. The acoustic pulse is received by a second acoustic transducer at a distance from the first transducer measured by a displacement transducer. A gated clock is enabled by the excitation pulse and disabled when the acoustic pulse received by the second acoustic transducer reaches a predetermined threshold. The clock measures the time it takes the acoustic pulse to travel the distance between transducers. The temperature of the liquid is determined by indirect means and is provided as an input to a digital computer which computes the speed of the acoustic pulse by dividing the distance between the transducers, provided by the displacement transducer, by the elapsed time measured by the clock. The computer compares the speed of the unknown liquid with the sound speeds of known liquids at the temperature of the unknown liquid. A display coupled to the computer presents the identities of any of the known liquids having the sound speeds within a predetermined interval about the calculated sound speed.
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Fogg, Jr. Robert K.
Glad Wayne
Fendelman Harvey
Finley Rose M.
Kagan Michael A.
Keough Thomas Glenn
The United States of America as represented by the secretary of
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