Fluid Sensor
AssigneeTribosonics Limited
InventorsPhilip Harper, Samuel Joseph Hill
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Abstract
A method for determining a property of a volume of fluid. The method comprises driving one or more transducers to generate i) a through-fluid acoustic wave having sufficiently high power to traverse into the volume of fluid, and ii) a reflective acoustic wave having sufficiently low power to be reflected at a reflection location located in between the volume of fluid and the one or more transducers generating the reflective acoustic wave. The method further comprises receiving, by the one or more transducers, both of the through-fluid acoustic wave and the reflective acoustic wave; converting the received waves into one or more corresponding electrical signals; and processing the one or more electrical signals to determine a property of the fluid.
Claims23
A method for determining a property of a volume of fluid, the method comprising:
- driving one or more transducers to generate i) a through-fluid acoustic wave having sufficiently high power to traverse into the volume of fluid, and ii) a reflective acoustic wave having sufficiently low power to be reflected at a reflection location located in between the volume of fluid and the one or more transducers generating the reflective acoustic wave;
- receiving, by the one or more transducers, both of the through-fluid acoustic wave and the reflective acoustic wave;
- converting the received waves into one or more corresponding electrical signals;
- and
- processing the one or more electrical signals to determine a property of the fluid.
The fluid sensing apparatus for monitoring a volume of fluid, the fluid sensing apparatus comprising:
- one or more transducers configured to:
- generate a through-fluid acoustic wave having sufficiently high power to traverse into the volume of fluid,
- generate a reflective acoustic wave having sufficiently low power to be reflected at a reflection location located in between the volume of fluid and the one or more transducers generating the reflective acoustic wave,
- receive both of the through-fluid acoustic wave and the reflective acoustic wave, and
- convert the received waves into one or more corresponding electrical signals;
- and
- a controller configured to process the one or more electrical signals to determine a property of the fluid.
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