Flow meter with improved turbine blades
US5046370A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 2, 1989 |
| Grant date | Sep 10, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 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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