Extreme-condition sensors for use with electrical capacitance volume tomography and capacitance sensing applications

    公开(公告)号:US11408847B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-09

    申请号:US16621794

    申请日:2018-05-30

    摘要: An electrical capacitance volume tomography sensor for use in high temperature, high pressure applications for measuring or imaging a flow within the sensor, the sensor comprising an outer pressure vessel, a plurality of electrodes placed within the outer pressure vessel, a plurality of threaded studs, wherein one of the threaded studs is attached to one of the plurality of electrodes, a coating or layer is placed on the plurality of electrodes for electrically isolating the plurality of electrodes, a plurality of holes in the outer pressure vessel for allowing terminal connections to the plurality of electrodes within the outer pressure vessel, wherein each of the plurality of holes accepts one of the plurality of threaded studs, and a plurality of gaskets, where one gasket is placed at each of the plurality of holes to seal the pressure at each of the holes in the outer pressure vessel by placing one gasket concentric around one threaded stud and conforming each gasket between a back of an electrode and the inside wall of the pressure vessel by tightening each of the plurality of nuts on each of the threaded studs.

    Modular stretchable and flexible capacitance sensors for use with electrical capacitance volume tomography and capacitance sensing applications
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    Modular stretchable and flexible capacitance sensors for use with electrical capacitance volume tomography and capacitance sensing applications 有权
    模块化可拉伸和灵活的电容传感器,用于电容体积层析成像和电容感应应用

    公开(公告)号:US09110115B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-08-18

    申请号:US13965636

    申请日:2013-08-13

    申请人: Tech4Imaging LLC

    IPC分类号: G01R27/26 G01N27/22

    摘要: A flexible capacitance sensor having multiple layers for communicating signals to a data acquisition system for reconstructing an image of an area or object located in a subject being sensed, the flexible capacitance sensor having a flexible layer of capacitance plates; a flexible shielding ground layer next to the layer of capacitance plates; a flexible layer of signal traces next to the shielding ground layer, where the layer of signal traces has a plurality of trace lines; and where the capacitance sensor is flexible and adapted to be wrapped around the subject being sensed. The sensor is adapted to communicate signals via the plurality of trace lines to a data acquisition system for providing an image of the area or object between the capacitance plates.

    摘要翻译: 一种柔性电容传感器,具有多个层,用于将信号传送到数据采集系统,用于重构位于正在感测的被摄体中的区域或物体的图像,柔性电容传感器具有柔性层电容板; 在电容板层旁边的柔性屏蔽接地层; 靠近屏蔽接地层的信号迹线的柔性层,其中信号迹线层具有多条迹线; 并且其中电容传感器是柔性的并且适于围绕被感测的被摄体缠绕。 传感器适于将信号经由多条迹线传送到数据采集系统,用于提供电容板之间的区域或物体的图像。