摘要:
The present invention is an apparatus for determining the flow rate of a fluid in a pipe. The apparatus includes a device for providing acoustic energy on a diagonal path through the fluid. The diagonal providing device is in contact with the pipe. The apparatus also includes a device for providing acoustic energy on a diametrical path through the fluid. The diametrical providing device is in contact with the pipe. The apparatus is also comprised of a device for determining the flow of fluid in the pipe based on the acoustic energy of the diagonal providing device and the acoustic energy of the diametrical providing device. In one embodiment, the diagonal providing device is fixedly disposed on the pipe. In another embodiment, the diametrical providing device provides acoustic energy emitted in both directions on the diametrical path. The diagonal providing device preferably includes a first transducer and a second transducer located at diametrically opposed positions about the pipe. The first transducer and second transducer are preferably adapted to alternatively function as transmitter and receiver so as to cause ultrasonic signals to travel through the fluid along the diametric path. The diametrical providing device preferably includes a third transducer and a fourth transducer located at diagonally opposed upstream and downstream positions relative to one another. The third transducer and the forth transducer are preferably adapted to alternatively function as a transmitter and receiver so as to cause ultrasonic signals to travel through the fluid alternatively in upstream and downstream directions along the diagonal path between the third transducer and the fourth transducer. The diametric path is adjacent to the diagonal path so that the transducers are sampling the same portion of fluid.
摘要:
A fusion protein that can function as a removable label is prepared containing a polypetide such as an enzyme and an amino acid sequence having a substrate binding region of a polysaccharidase such as cellulase that has essentially no polysaccharidase activity. By contacting the fusion protein with a .beta.-1,4 glycan matrix such as cellulose, the substrate binding region binds to the matrix to immobilize the polypeptide. The polypetide or fusion protein can be removed from the matrix with a protease capable of cleaving a specific protease cleavage site, or with a solution having a low ionic strength or a high pH. The fusion protein can be prepared by recombinant DNA technology.
摘要:
The present invention is a monitor that detects generator core 12 hot spots where the insulation between ferromagnetic sheets is breaking down by monitoring rotor 10 shaft voltage. The difference between the differential shaft voltage at each end of the rotor 14 produces a voltage signal that changes as the core 12 malfunctions. By comparing signal samples over time, core failure can be detected. Spring loaded rotor shaft brushes 20 and 22 connected to differential isolation amplifiers 24 and 26 obtain the voltage between ends 16 and 18 of the rotating shaft and nearby frame, and a differential amplifier 28 produces the difference between the shaft end differential voltages which is the shaft dissymmetry voltage. An analog-to-digital converter 30 produces digital values of the dissymmetry voltage which can be converted into a voltage frequency spectrum by a Fourier Transform routine executed by a computer 32 or analyzed directly. The computer 32 monitors the spectrum or time domain signal over time for changes and produces an alarm when the changes exceed a threshold. Bandpass filters 34 and a simple threshold comparison routine or analog threshold devices can substitute for the FFT routine.
摘要:
A device for monitoring a magnetic field intensity having a given direction, the device including: a light conducting member (11) defining a first optical port (23), a second optical port (24), an optical path extending between the ports, and elements (31,34) for causing light to travel along the path between the ports (23,24); a first polarizer (31) disposed in the optical path for polarizing the light beam in a first plane of polarizaiton transverse to the path; a second polarizer (33) disposed in the optical path for polarizing the light beam in a second plane of polarization transverse to the path, the second polarizer (33) being spaced along the path from the first polarizer (31); and a focusing surface (18) disposed to intersect the beam at a point along the path between the polarizers (31,33) to focus the light beam from the first optical port (23) onto the second optical port (24). The light conducting member (11) constitutes a medium between the first and second polarizers (31,33) for permitting rotation of the plane of polarization of the light beam under influence of the magnetic field when the device is oriented so that at least a portion of the optical path between the polarizers (31,33) extends in a direction having a component parallel to the given direction so that the intensity of the light beam at the second optical port (24) will vary as a function of variations in the intensity of the magnetic field.
摘要:
Drift compensation for the output signal of a magneto-optic current measuring system is achieved through the use of two light emitting sources, each at different frequencies, to generate two alternating optical input signals to the current sensor to establish a signal reference in order to compensate for signal drift caused by variable attenuator characteristics of the optical elements in the system.
摘要:
An electric energy meter includes a mutual inductance current transducer formed by primary winding means for direct connection to the current component of an electric energy quantity to be measured. Secondary winding means is inductively coupled to the primary winding means to produce an analog signal that is proportional to the time derivative of the current component. The current responsive analog signal and a voltage responsive analog signal are both applied to an electronic watthour measuring circuit.
摘要:
A strobe generator in a data entry input device is responsive to an input strobe signal from a keyboard system to generate a strobe signal which is not affected by electrical noise produced by electrostatically or electromagnetically induced signals in the signal lines running between the keyboard system and the data entry device input logic. An accurate output strobe signal is generated by utilizing a retriggerable logic circuit to filter out noise signals of a duration shorter than a predetermined period. The predetermined period is chosen to be less than the minimum duration of a valid input strobe signal and greater than the duration of active noise signals. The strobe generator retains the output strobe signal in the active state by use of a flip-flop until the strobe generator receives a reset signal acknowledging that the output strobe signal has been sampled by the data entry device input logic. Once set, the flip-flop will remain set and its corresponding output strobe signal remain active until reset, even if subsequent input strobe signals of less than or greater than the predetermined period are received.
摘要:
A device for measuring vibration is herein disclosed and claimed, said device comprising: a vane attached to a vibratory member; a light supply and at least one detector; and light guides. The vane includes or is attached to a mask having therein a plurality of light directing and light opaque elements. During vibration the mask travels transversely of the light path. The elements of the mask may be encoded, as with a Gray Code, so as to yield both amplitude and phase information. Or the elements may be so arranged as to chop the light into a plurality of pulses for each vibration of the vane through the use of a second, stationary mask. In either case the device yields information whose interpretation is substantially independent of fluctuations in the intensity of the source light.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for assuring the accuracy of data received by any device in a computer system from any other device in the same computer system or from another computer system. The existing hardware of a computer system is utilized to generate a cyclic redundant check character each time a unit of data is transmitted. The cyclic redundant check character is concatenated to the right of such data transmitted. Each time that the particular data is received, the check character and the data with which it is associated, is again manipulated in the same manner as in generating the check character. If the data received is the same as the data transmitted, the result of such manipulation is zero.
摘要:
Method and meter apparatus for measuring parameters of electrical energy quantities occurring in an electrical power distribution system. The meter apparatus samples a second input signal, which is proportional to one of the voltage and current components of an electrical energy quantity, at predetermined instants, which are a function of unit changes in the magnitude of a first input signal, which is proportional to the time integral of one of the voltage and current components of the electrical energy quantity, to provide instantaneous values of said second input signal. Successive ones of the instantaneous magnitudes of the second input signal are converted to signal representations and accumulated to provide totalized values which are equivalent to the time integral of the product of the ones of the electrical energy components being represented by the first and second input signals over a predetermined period of time and which are proportional to a measured parameter occurring on the electrical distribution system.