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Flow meter with improved turbine blades

US5046370A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 2, 1989
Grant dateSep 10, 1991
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Expiry dateAug 2, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01F1/115
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Improved turbine comprising plural turbine blades supported by a turbine rotor of a flow meter, each turbine blade having a rounded leading edge, a feathered trailing edge, a concave top blade surface and a convex bottom blade surface, the turbine blade tapered from the leading edge to the trailing edge to form a hydrofoil shaped defined by empirical profile data.

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