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Fluid Measurement (e.g., Mass, Pressure, Viscosity)

Fluid Measurement (e.g., Mass, Pressure, Viscosity) patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

11/23/06 - 20060265150 - Method and apparatus for characterising multiphase fluid mixtures
A method for determining at least one characteristic of a multiphase fluid including the steps of applying alternating energy of a predetermined amplitude to a portion of a multiphase fluid and measuring the electrical impedance spectrum across the portion of multiphase fluid whereby a characteristic of the multiphase fluid can ...

11/16/06 - 20060259253 - Systems for transiently dynamic flow cytometer analysis
A flow cytometry apparatus and methods to process information incident to particles or cells entrained in a sheath fluid stream allowing assessment, differentiation, assignment, and separation of such particles or cells even at high rates of speed. A first signal processor individually or in combination with at least one additional ...

11/02/06 - 20060247869 - Multiphase flow meter and data system
A multiphase flow meter and data system including a volumetric flow meter, a water percentage meter, a multiphase density sensor, and a data center interconnected to the volumetric flow meter, the water percentage meter, and the multiphase density sensor. The multiphase density sensor has piping with a first transition section, ...

10/26/06 - 20060241875 - Method and device for hydrometeor detection
This publication discloses a method and apparatus for measuring hydrometeors. According to the method, the mechanical impulses of hydrometers falling on a detection surface are measured. According to the invention, part of the measuring device (1) is used to perform a continuous measurement, in order to define a threshold value ...

10/26/06 - 20060241874 - Monitoring system
A monitoring system for monitoring fluid used in an environment such as a trade/industrial waste plant or air conditioning cooling tower installation is disclosed. The system includes sensors (26 to 34, 53 to 55) for sensing parameters of the fluid, a remote monitoring system (40) for receiving signals indicative of ...

09/21/06 - 20060212233 - System and method for gas flow verification
A gas flow rate verification apparatus is provided for shared use in a multiple tool semiconductor processing platform. The gas flow rate verification apparatus is defined to measure a pressure rate of rise and temperature within a test volume for determination of a corresponding gas flow rate. The apparatus includes ...

09/21/06 - 20060212232 - Water cut meter for measurement of water in crude oil
An apparatus, systems, and methods for measuring an amount of oil in a flow of fluid are provided. A housing defines an interior passage configured to pass a flow of fluid. A capacitance sensor, which suitably is a pair of insulated electrodes, is configured to respond to a capacitance of ...

08/17/06 - 20060184329 - Method system and program storage device for optimization of valve settings in instrumented wells using adjoint gradient technology and reservoir simulation
A new adjoint method for calculating and using adjoint gradients in a Reservoir Simulator comprises: calculating adjoint gradients of an objective function with respect to changes in valve settings taking into account the modeling of pressure drop and fluid flow along a wellbore, and using the adjoint gradients to calculate ...

08/03/06 - 20060173639 - Precise pressure measurement by vibrating an oval conduit along different cross-sectional axes
A conduit (106), with geometry designed to enhance pressure sensitivity, is vibrated at resonance in two modes along different cross-sectional axes (a, b). Measuring the change in the frequency ratio squared of the modes yields a substantially linear relationship to pressure that is substantially immune to other material properties and ...

06/29/06 - 20060142957 - Method of controlling an electronic or computer system
A method of controlling an electronic or computer system includes receiving a plurality of input values from a plurality of fluid current sensors and using the plurality of input values and gradients between the plurality of input values to control an action of the electronic or computer system. ...

06/15/06 - 20060129337 - Information processing apparatus for numerically analyzing incompresible fluid and method therefor
During an incompressible fluid movement, three consecutive times during the movement of the fluid are called first, second, and third times in time order, calculation is performed with two different types of lattices for the first and third times and for the second time. Momentum and mass density at the ...

04/06/06 - 20060074571 - Fluid catalytic cracking catalyst injection system and method for communicating with same
A method and apparatus for metering catalyst to a fluid catalytic cracking catalyst unit are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus for metering catalyst to a fluid catalytic cracking catalyst unit includes a low pressure storage vessel coupled to a pressure vessel by a metering device. A controller is provided ...

04/06/06 - 20060074570 - Electronic gas flow measurement and recording device
An electronic flow measurement device (EFM), for use in conjunction with a flow meter in a pressurized gas line, has a microprocessor and read-only memory (ROM), and calculates and records gas flow rates corrected for variable factors such as gas pressure, temperature, and density. Look-up tables stored in the ROM ...

04/06/06 - 20060074569 - Device for the determination of flow parameters for a fluid and method for operatng such a device
The invention relates to a device for the determination of flow parameters of a fluid, in particular, the temperature and flow speed and changes therein, in a fluid flow for monitoring, a method for operating such a device, a determination method itself and a fire recognition or oxygen measuring device ...

03/23/06 - 20060064257 - Test device for measuring a container response
A test device can acquire interior temperature, interior pressure, and interior volume data on a container exposed to conditions in a test throughout the test and can be used with a computer system. ...

02/23/06 - 20060041392 - Method, computer program product and use of a computer program for stabilizing a multiphase flow
The present invention relates to a method for stabilizating multiphase flow through a pipeline, riser or well flow line (8a), characterized by implementation of a dynamic feedback controller (9) by controlling a control valve or choke (2) at the outlet (13) of the pipeline or riser (8a). ...

02/09/06 - 20060031030 - Portable fluid sensing device and method
Fluid monitoring methods, systems and apparatus are disclosed. Preferred embodiments comprise one or more flexural resonator sensing elements. In preferred embodiments a sensor or a sensor subassembly is ported to multiple fluidic systems. ...

01/19/06 - 20060015268 - Mass measurement system and method using measurement of frequency shift of vibrator
The present invention relates to a mass measurement system and method capable of precisely measuring the mass of a sample in a gravity-free environment. The mass measurement system using measurement of frequency shift of a vibrator according to the present invention includes a vibrator vibrating at a predetermined resonance frequency ...

01/12/06 - 20060009928 - Methods and apparatus for using water use signatures and water pressure in improving water use efficiency
A method is provided for identifying a flow anomaly in a system having first and second water using devices, comprising: generating baseline data comprising water use signatures and corresponding water pressure information regarding the water using devices; comparing the baseline data with actual water usage signatures and corresponding actual water ...

12/29/05 - 20050288875 - Program for calculating displacement of fluid and method for acquiring variables
Disclosed herein is a program for calculating a displacement of a fluid comprising calculating the displacement with the fluid regarded as an elastic structural body for a given period of time. ...

12/22/05 - 20050283323 - Method and system for shear flow profiling
The invention relates to a computerized method of profiling a shear flow, such as a boundary layer. The method includes receiving two successive images of a plurality of particles in the shear flow near the interface being analyzed. The method also includes determining a set of potential particle motion vectors ...

10/27/05 - 20050240360 - Method and device for measuring physical characteristics of a solid porous sample
A sample saturated with a first fluid such as brine is placed in a vessel filled with a second fluid. By means of a centrifugation assembly, the sample is drained until a final saturation pressure is established in the sample. In a second phase, the sample can be soaked. The ...

10/06/05 - 20050222782 - Flow monitoring system
A flow monitoring system includes a first temperature-sensitive resistive device, thermally coupled to a first portion of a fluid transfer apparatus, for producing a first temperature-dependant voltage signal representative of the temperature of the fluid within the first portion of the fluid transfer apparatus. A first current control device, coupled ...

09/22/05 - 20050209795 - Method and system for calculating the transit time of an ultrasonic pulse
An automated method and system for calculating the transit time of a pulsed signal transmitted from a first ultrasonic transducer to a second ultrasonic transducer is provided. The method includes measuring the amplitude of the pulsed signal received at the second transducer from the first transducer; measuring the amplitude of ...

07/28/05 - 20050165562 - Fluid analyzing apparatus, fluid analyzing method, and fluid analyzing program
The invention provides a fluid analyzing apparatus, a fluid analyzing method, and a fluid analyzing program which can analyze an unsteady fluid with time developing, which do not depend on nonphysical parameters, and which can perform calculation with good convergence. The apparatus includes: an advection step density analyzing unit which ...

07/07/05 - 20050149276 - Application specific integrated circuitry for controlling analysis of a fluid
A circuit chip is disclosed. The circuit chip includes analog-to-digital processing circuitry that is capable of interfacing with a sensor and host electronics. The analog-to-digital processing circuitry includes a frequency generator configured for providing stimulus to the sensor and signal detection circuitry that is configured for identifying amplitude data of ...

07/07/05 - 20050149275 - Systems and methods for reducing the effect of corruptive signals during nanoliter osmometry
An osmolarity measuring system includes the ability to recognize patterns within the electrical profile of nanoliters of fluid an account for corruptive signals in the electrical profile. These corruptive signals are mainly caused by the mechanical relaxation of the sample fluid after delivery or evaporation across the electrodes. ...

06/02/05 - 20050119839 - Flow irreversibility measurement system
A detector for detecting fluid flow irreversibility is disclosed herein. The detector uses a spatial velocity field to determine the entropy production distribution of the flow, and generates a loss coefficient distribution on the basis the determined entropy distribution. ...



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