Body for mounting ultrasonic transducer in a flowmeter piping through an opening according to a contour line to prevent turbulences
AssigneeIntegra Metering SAS
InventorsAlain Ramond, Mathieu Poque
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Abstract
Disclosed is a device for mounting an ultrasonic transducer, suitable for mounting the transducer such that it extends through a wall of a flow meter having a channel in which a fluid flows; the device includes a body in communication with an inner surface of the channel in accordance with a closed contour line that forms an interface between the inner surface of the channel and a surface of the device body, referred to as active surface, which follows the shape of the inner surface of the channel. The active surface extends continuously, and without openings, in the area delimited by the contour line. Also disclosed is a flow meter using a mounting device of this kind.
Claims20
Device for mounting an ultrasonic transducer adapted for mounting said transducer through a wall of a flowmeter having piping within which a fluid flows, said device having a body adapted to emerge onto an inner surface of said piping via an aperture according to a contour line forming an interface between said inner surface of the piping and a surface of the body, this interface being such that any straight line orthogonal to the contour line and tangential to the inner surface of the piping at a point of the contour line is likewise tangential to said surface of the body at this point, wherein the device has a surface, named active surface, in contact with the fluid flowing in the piping, and wherein this active surface is formed by said surface of the body in contact with the fluid flowing in the piping, extends continuously, without a hole, cut, opening or discontinuity, and wherein the transducer is mounted in the body, isolated from the fluid flowing in the piping owing to the continuity of the active surface.
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