Method and apparatus for a sensitivity enhancing balance bar
CA 2334856 C · Owner: Stack, Charles Paul · Inventors: Stack, Charles Paul; Van Cleve, Craig Brainerd; Lanham, Gregory Treat
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A single tube Coriolis flowmeter having a balance bar that enhances the flowmeter sensitivity to material flow. The balance bar's design lowers its second bending mode response to have a frequency that may be lower than the flow tube resonant drive frequency. The lowering of the second bending mode frequency of the balance bar enables the Coriolis response of the vibrating flow tube with material flow to extend force from the flow tube through a brace bar to the balance bar. These Coriolis forces induce Coriolis-like response vibrations in the balance bar because of the lowered second bending mode frequency of the balance bar. The Coriolis response of the flowmeter is enhanced …
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- Filed May 28, 1999 and granted October 14, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 28, 2019.
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