Measuring and testing – Vibration – By mechanical waves
Patent
1993-04-23
1995-10-10
Williams, Hezron E.
Measuring and testing
Vibration
By mechanical waves
73290V, 73 6179, 73 6453, 7386118, G08B 1712
Patent
active
054561140
ABSTRACT:
A sensing system detects elastic waves propagated along a sensing path in a sheet to detect a characteristic of material contacting the other side of the sheet. An acoustic load applied between transducers discriminates characteristics in diverse environments. Different systems detect density, stiffness, presence, degree of coupling, thickness, or fill height of the material, with applications to areas as diverse as aircraft wing ice measurement, storage tank fill height detection, and mass flow detection. In one preferred embodiment a protective housing covers and protects the first side of the sheet over a region of the sheet encompassing the sensing path, and may secure transducers in defined positions. The housing preferably defines a closed reservoir that is temporarily filled to determine a normative measurement such as transit time or change in phase velocity. The normative measurement provides an empirical calibration that, in turn, allows a final parameter or a detection threshold to be precisely determined.
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Liu Yi
Lynnworth Lawrence C.
Oda Christine
Panametrics, Inc.
Williams Hezron E.
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