Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wind sensor housing
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Application No.: US15759201Application Date: 2016-09-09
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Publication No.: US10908176B2Publication Date: 2021-02-02
- Inventor: Robin Strachan
- Applicant: FT Technologies (UK) Ltd
- Applicant Address: GB Sunbury-on-Thames
- Assignee: FT Technologies (UK) Ltd
- Current Assignee: FT Technologies (UK) Ltd
- Current Assignee Address: GB Sunbury-on-Thames
- Agency: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
- Priority: GB1516320.7 20150915
- International Application: PCT/GB2016/052796 WO 20160909
- International Announcement: WO2017/046571 WO 20170323
- Main IPC: G01P1/02
- IPC: G01P1/02 ; G01P5/24 ; G01F15/14 ; G01F1/66

Abstract:
A housing 6 is provided for a wind sensor 2. A sensing element 4 is mounted in the housing 6 to measure the speed of the passing fluid flow, and the housing 6 comprises at least one surface 40, 42 having shaped surface elements 38, such as protrusions from and/or indentations in the surface 40, 42, for inducing turbulence in fluid flowing across the surface 40, 42. The turbulence caused by the shaped surface elements 38 results in the speed measured by the wind sensor 2 being less affected by uncontrolled transitions between laminar and turbulent airflow, and thus enables more accurate calibration of the wind sensor 2.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180252740A1 WIND SENSOR HOUSING Public/Granted day:2018-09-06
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