Sensor arrangements, sensor systems, and methods for determining height of liquids in tanks
AssigneeMopeka Products LLC
InventorsJoel Reese Moore, Jonathan Louis Kaufmann, Jason Duane Peck
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Abstract
A sensor arrangement for measuring liquid height in a tank can include a housing, a transducer, and a couplant. The housing can have an interior and an aperture, the aperture placing the interior of the housing in communication with the environment external to the housing. The transducer can be seated within the aperture. The couplant can be mechanically connected to the transducer and can have a compressible couplant body. The couplant body can extend between the transducer and the external environment for transmitting an acoustic pulse from the transducer to a tank bottom for measuring height of a liquid overlaying the transducer.
Claims20
A sensor arrangement configured for measuring liquid height in a tank, comprising:
- a housing having an interior and an aperture, the aperture configured to communicate the housing interior with an environment external to the housing;
- a transducer seated within the aperture;
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- a couplant mechanically connected to the transducer, the couplant including a compressible couplant body extending between the transducer and the external environment to transmit an acoustic pulse from the transducer to a tank bottom for measuring height of a liquid overlaying the transducer;
- wherein the aperture defines a transducer lip adjacent the housing interior and a couplant lip disposed between the transducer lip and the external environment, the couplant lip extending about the transducer lip.
A sensor arrangement configured for measuring liquid height in a tank, comprising:
- a housing having an interior and an aperture, the aperture configured to communicate the housing interior with an environment external to the housing;
- a transducer seated within the aperture;
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- a couplant mechanically connected to the transducer, the couplant including a compressible couplant body extending between the transducer and the external environment to transmit an acoustic pulse from the transducer to a tank bottom for measuring height of a liquid overlaying the transducer;
- wherein the housing defines a first magnet seat offset from the aperture, and further comprising a first magnet captive in the first magnet seat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.