Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Measuring fuel in a fuel tank
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Application No.: US15726771Application Date: 2017-10-06
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Publication No.: US10551237B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Alessio Cipullo , Neil Thomson Gordon , Kaiming Zhou
- Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED , ASTON UNIVERSITY
- Applicant Address: GB Bristol GB Birmingham
- Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED,ASTON UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED,ASTON UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: GB Bristol GB Birmingham
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.
- Priority: GB1617139.9 20161010
- Main IPC: G01B11/06
- IPC: G01B11/06 ; G01F23/292
Abstract:
A method of measuring a height of a fuel in an aircraft fuel tank (21)b including illuminating the fuel in the aircraft fuel tank and detecting reflected light from the fuel. Optical coherence tomography is used to determine the height of a surface of fuel in the fuel tank. An apparatus (30) is used to measure a height of a surface of fuel in an aircraft fuel tank, and an aircraft fuel tank system with a fuel tank and an apparatus for measuring a height of a surface of fuel in the aircraft fuel tank.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180100755A1 MEASURING FUEL IN A FUEL TANK Public/Granted day:2018-04-12
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