Monitoring device with modular assembly
OwnerBradley Charles Ashmoreinventor
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Abstract
A monitoring device includes a cavity assembly with a plurality of cavities. Openings of the plurality of cavities are distributed about a flow-facing surface of the cavity assembly. A gas pressure sensor is disposed within each of the cavities, and is configured to measure an absolute pressure of a gas flow which flows past the monitoring device. Gas pressure measurements from the pressure sensors may be used to determine a flow speed and a flow direction of the gas flow. More specifically, a mapping may be used to map the logarithm of the difference between the maximum and minimum pressures to a flow speed. Further, a lookup table may be used to map a pattern of pressure measurements to a flow direction.
Claims20
A monitoring device, comprising:
- a cavity assembly with a plurality of cavities;
- a plurality of sensors;
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- a sensor support that supports the plurality of sensors,
- wherein the cavity assembly has a first interface that is formed by a sensor-facing surface with a first plurality of openings,
- wherein each one of the first plurality of openings is fluidly connected with one of the plurality of cavities,
- wherein the sensor support has a second interface that is formed by a top surface of the sensor support and the plurality of sensors,
- wherein the first interface is geometrically complementary to the second interface, and
- wherein the second interface is geometrically complementary to the first interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.