Flow meter with adaptable beam characteristics

US10161770B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• OTT HYDROMET CORP. · DE

Inventors

• David Langley Rick · Longmont, US
• Martin Kennerknecht · Immenstadt im Allgäu, DE
• Stefan Siedschlag · Berlin, DE
• Fabian Kratz · Kaufbeuren, DE
• Leon Audergon · Sankt Gallen, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 30, 2016
• Grant date: Dec 25, 2018
• Expiry date: Dec 24, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S15/60
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An embodiment provides a device for measuring a fluid parameter of fluid flow in a channel, including: a transmitter; at least one receiver; a processor operatively coupled to the at least one transmitter and the at least one receiver; a memory device that stores instructions executable by the processor to: transmit, using the transmitter, directed energy carrying a signal toward a surface of a fluid in a fluid channel, so as to produce one or more reflections from the fluid surface; detect, by the at least one receiver, one or more received signals associated with the one or more reflections so produced; determine, based upon a measurement beam comprising characteristics of the transmitted and received signals, one or more fluid parameters to be measured using a processor of the device; and associate, using a processor of the device, the one or more fluid parameters with a channel segment. Other embodiments are described and claimed.