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Filling level meter

CA 1296094 C · Owner: Endress U. Hauser Gmbh U. Co. · Inventors: Lau, Jurgen

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The filling level meter for measuring the filling level in a container includes a transmitting and a receiving arrange ment which directs sonic or ultrasonic pulses onto the filling material surface and receives the backscattered pulses reflected by the filling material surface and converts them to electrical reception signals. Connected to the transmitting and receiving arrangement is an evaluating circuit which in a signal processing path generates an envelope signal corresponding to the envelope of the reception signals, digitizes sampled values of the envelope signal stores in a memory the digitized sampled values for creating a distance-dependent or travel-time-dependent amplitude …

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  • Granted February 18, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended February 18, 2009.
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FiledApril 12, 1989
GrantedFebruary 18, 1992
Term endedFebruary 18, 2009
Patent numberCA 1296094 C
Classification (IPC)G01F23/28 +2 more

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1990199219941996199820002002200420062008Application filedApril 12, 1989Patent grantedFeb 18, 1992Term endedFeb 18, 2009

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