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Method and apparatus for measuring flow

US4252028A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 26, 1979
Grant dateFeb 24, 1981
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Expiry dateFeb 26, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01F1/8477
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Method and apparatus for measuring mass flow, and particularly the sum or difference in mass flow of distinct streams of flowing materials, wherein a plurality of channels are provided in one or more conduits rotating or oscillating as a common unit with additive streams or a common stream being flowed through the channels in a first direction and subtractive streams being flowed through the channels in an opposite direction, and in which the net Coriolis force imposed upon the conduit unit is measured.

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