Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flow meter device
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Application No.: US14410946Application Date: 2013-06-28
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Publication No.: US09726532B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Akihisa Adachi , Yuji Fujii , Yuji Nakabayashi , Hirokazu Gotou , Yukio Sakaguchi , Aoi Watanabe , Yasuharu Kawano
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Brinks Gilson & Lione
- Priority: JP2012-146334 20120629; JP2012-157199 20120713; JP2012-157200 20120713
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/004053 WO 20130628
- International Announcement: WO2014/002508 WO 20140103
- Main IPC: G01F1/00
- IPC: G01F1/00 ; G01B3/00 ; G01F1/66 ; G01F15/00 ; G01F7/00 ; G01F5/00 ; G01F15/07

Abstract:
A flow meter device includes plural fluid passages which are provided between an inlet section into which a fluid flows and an outlet section from which the fluid flows out, and through which the fluid flows and flow value measuring units installed in the plural fluid passages, respectively. The flow value measuring units are configured to measure flow values of the fluid flowing through the fluid passages. The flow meter device further includes a control unit configured to determine whether or not to cause one or more of the flow value measuring units to stop a measuring operation of the flow value based on the flow values measured by the flow value measuring units. The control unit is further configured to determine whether or not to cause the one or more of the flow value measuring units to resume the measuring operation of the flow value, based on the flow value measured by the flow value measuring unit as a monitoring measuring unit which is other than the one or more of the flow value measuring units and is activated to perform the measuring operation of the flow value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150323365A1 FLOW METER DEVICE Public/Granted day:2015-11-12
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