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US 7,412,336 B2Granted
Attitude insensitive flow device system and method
AssigneeCelerity, Inc.
InventorDwight S. Larson
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for attitude insensitive flow devices. The system can include a flow device having a processor and a computer readable medium accessible by the processor that stores a set of computer instructions executable by the processor. The computer instructions can include instructions executable to receive an orientation signal, receive a sensed flow signal, and determine a flow through the flow device based on the sensed flow signal and the orientation signal.
Claims20
A flow device comprising:
- a fluid inlet;
- a fluid outlet;
- a flow sensor, in fluid communication with the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet, to sense a flow rate of a fluid through the flow sensor and provide a flow signal indicative of the sensed flow rate of the fluid through the flow sensor;
- an orientation sensor to provide an orientation signal indicative of an orientation of the flow sensor relative to a reference direction;
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- a processor configured to receive the flow signal and the orientation signal and determine a corrected flow rate of the fluid through the flow sensor based upon the flow signal and the orientation signal.
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