Patent · US Expired

Vortex shedding flow meter with noise suppressing and signal enhancing means

US4703659A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 18, 1985
Grant dateNov 3, 1987
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Expiry dateOct 18, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01F1/325
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

This invention discloses a vortex shedding flowmeter comprising a vortex generating member disposed across one cross section of the flow passage and a pair of vortex sensing wings respectively disposed across two cross section of the flow passage straddling the vortex generating member in a parallel relationship thereto, wherein one extremity of each wing is secured to a stocky container member housing a piezo-electric element by a flange of a thin diaphragm construction, which stocky container member is rigidly secured to the wall of the flow passage, while the other extremity of each wing is secured to the opposite side wall of the flow passage in a resilient manner.

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