Ultrasonic fuel-gauging system
CA 2759068 C · Owner: The Boeing Company · Inventors: Anderson, David M.; Childress, James J.; Rassain, Mostafa
Overview
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The invention provides a fuel-tank system with an ultrasonic fuel--gauging system for an aircraft. The fuel-tank system includes a fuel tank a transducer carrier tape covered with a separation barrier and coupled to a surface of the fuel tank and at least one ultrasonic transducer attached to the transducer carrier tape. An ultrasonic signal from at least one ultrasonic transducer is reflected from a fuel-air surface and a reflected signal is received by at least one ultrasonic transducer to determine a fuel level in the fuel tank.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed January 28, 2004 and granted May 28, 2013. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 28, 2024.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 28, 2026.
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