Apparatus and method for automatic leak detection
AssigneesAteq, ATEQ Singapore Pte. Ltd.
InventorGuy D. Dewailly
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Abstract
An apparatus for automatic leak detection includes an adiabatic tank, an electronic pressure regulator in fluid communication with the adiabatic tank, and an electronic processor in electronic communication with the electronic pressure regulator. The electronic processor is to automatically determine an optimum adiabatic pressure based on an ambient atmospheric pressure, a test pressure, and an ambient air temperature. The apparatus is to generate the optimum adiabatic pressure automatically in the adiabatic tank via the electronic pressure regulator in communication with the electronic processor.
Claims15
An apparatus for automatic leak detection in a test article, comprising:
- a first tank;
- an electronic pressure regulator in fluid communication with the first tank;
- and
- an electronic processor in electronic communication with the electronic pressure regulator, wherein:
- the electronic processor is to automatically determine an optimum adiabatic pressure based on an ambient atmospheric pressure, a test pressure, and an ambient air temperature, wherein the optimum adiabatic pressure is a pressure of air in the first tank that, when the air is allowed to flow from the first tank into the test article, equalizes a cooling of decompression of a first amount of air from the first tank flowing into the test article with a heating of compression of an existing amount of air in the test article at ambient temperature and pressure at a start of the flow of air from the first tank into the test article thereby causing the test article to be pressurized at the test pressure at the ambient air temperature;
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- the apparatus is to generate the optimum adiabatic pressure automatically in the first tank via the electronic pressure regulator in communication with the electronic processor.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor, the non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising:
- instructions to:
- automatically determine an optimum adiabatic pressure for an adiabatic a first tank of an apparatus for automatic leak detection in a test article, wherein the optimum adiabatic pressure is a pressure of air in the first tank that, when the air is allowed to flow from the first tank into the test article, equalizes a cooling of decompression of a first amount of air from the first tank flowing into the test article with a heating of compression of an existing amount of air in the test article at ambient temperature and pressure at a start of the flow of air from the first tank into the test article thereby causing the test article to be pressurized at the test pressure at the ambient air temperature;
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- cause the apparatus to generate the optimum adiabatic pressure automatically in the first tank via an electronic pressure regulator, wherein the automatic determining of the optimum adiabatic pressure for the first tank is based on an ambient atmospheric pressure, a test pressure, and an ambient air temperature, and wherein the apparatus for automatic leak detection includes:
- the first tank;
- the electronic pressure regulator in fluid communication with the first tank;
- and
- an electronic processor in electronic communication with the electronic pressure regulator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.