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Water meter system

US5261275A · kind A · utility

30Cited by
13References
19Claims
0Family size

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 12, 1991
Grant dateNov 16, 1993
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 12, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01F3/12
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A device which monitors the through passage of incompressible fluids such as water that relies upon a nutating disk-type transducer associated with a spherical hollow core. The disk includes a spindle which precesses in the presence of a sensor. A display panel is driven by a microcontroller which converts the precession of the spindle to useful output as a function of time whereby the precession correlates with volume flow through the nutating disk transducer.

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