ULTRASCHALLDURCHFLUSSMESSER ZUR MESSUNG EINER FLÜSSIGKEITSVOLUMENMENGE MIT VERBESSERTEN AKUSTISCHEN EIGENSCHAFTEN

• Main Authors: HUANG, BAO, TUAN, F-92160 ANTONY, FR, MARQUETTE, GABRIEL, F-78640 VILLIERS-SAINT-FREDERIC, FR
• Format: Patent
• Language: German
• Published: 12.05.1999
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: MEASURING; MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUIDLEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME; PHYSICS; TESTING

PCT No. PCT/FR95/01051 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 27, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 27, 1997 PCT Filed Aug. 4, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/06333 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 29, 1996An ultrasonic measurement device measures a volume-related quantity of a fluid flowing from a first zone to a second zone of the device. The device includes two ultrasound transducers emitting and receiving ultrasound signals and each disposed in one of the zones to define between them an ultrasound measurement path in the fluid. The device also includes a measurement electronics block that drives emission and reception of ultrasound signals by transducers, measures a physical magnitude characteristic of the propagation speed of said signals in the fluid and deduces the volume-related quantity of the fluid from these measurements and the geometry of the device. This determines the volume-related quantity of the fluid on the basis of measurements of a physical magnitude that is characteristic of the propagation speed of ultrasound signals in the fluid. The device also includes firstly, over at least a portion of the ultrasound measurement path, two concentric ducts about the longitudinal axis (XX') defining a longitudinal space, and secondly the inner duct being obstructed by a central element subdividing the inside of said inner duct into two internal housings enabling ultrasound measurement to be performed solely in the longitudinal space.