Measuring and testing – Volume or rate of flow – By measuring vibrations or acoustic energy
Patent
1997-03-04
1998-12-01
Biegel, Ronald
Measuring and testing
Volume or rate of flow
By measuring vibrations or acoustic energy
G01F 166
Patent
active
058441441
ABSTRACT:
In a Doppler system for determining the average flow velocity of a liquid based on reflection from particles moving with the liquid, and in which system the received signal is subjected to both in-phase and quadrature detection, and is then analyzed into frequency domain in-phase channel amplitude and phase components and quadrature channel amplitude and phase components, an improved method for calculating the average flow velocity, comprising discarding those amplitude components for which the in-phase and quadrature phase components differ from approximately +90 degrees and approximately -90 degrees before using the remaining amplitude components to calculate an average amplitude-weighted frequency that is used in estimating the average flow velocity.
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Biegel Ronald
McKown Daniel C.
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