Abstract:
Eine Vorrichtung zur Laufzeitbestimmung von Ultraschal limpulsen in einem Fluid weist zwei im Abstand voneinander angeordnete elektroakustische Wandler (11, 20) auf. Das dem Schalldruck proportionale Sendesignal ist über ein regelbares Verzögerungsglied (23) an eine Multiplikationsschaltung (25) angelegt, der auch das Empfangssignal zugeführt ist. Das Produktsignal seinerseits ist einer Laufzeitdetektorschaltung (10) zugeführt.
Abstract:
The invention is particularly related to the measurement of the area of a blood vessel and the volume flow rate of blood in such vessels. An ultrasonic Doppler velocimeter (10, 12, 14 and 26) which derives a number of velocity signals dependent on the number of different velocities in a duct is coupled by way of a limiter 15 to a frequency-to-voltage converter 16 which therefore has an output with one component for each velocity signal. A further frequency-to-voltage converter 21 provides a signal dependent on the number of velocity signals and since this number depends on the duct area, the output from the converter 21 is a measure of this area. By using another frequency-to-voltage converter 23 and a mean detector 24, a mean velocity signal is obtained which when multiplied by the area signal generates volume flow rate.
Abstract:
An air flow meter (30) has an air flow channel (32) with a vortex generator or strut (33). The cross sectional area of the air flow adjacent the vortex generator is varied to change the flow velocity and hence to change the vortex frequency. The generator means includes an movable elongated plate member having an axis of elongation parallel to the direction of airflow and the airflow channel has a cross sectional area of different magnitudes along the direction parallel to the airflow. The plate member is longitudinally movable to different cross sectional magnitudes in the channel.
Abstract:
Static pressure sensing and free airstream temperature sensing is obviated in a method for determining aircraft velocity relative to an airmass by utilizing a static pressure and temperature component present in pressure variations sensed by a total pressure sensor located on a rotating arm mounted on the fuselage of an aircraft. A harmonic analysis of a quasi-sinusoidal total pressure variation includes a determination of steady state and both first and second harmonic components. These harmonic components are used to determine the static pressure, the free airstream temperature and the aircraft airspeed without separately sensing these parameters.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for directly determining the direction of recorded tracks of moving objects when picking up images on an image detector. The detected object tracks are given graphic data in arrow or vector form in real time. The objects may be illuminated or self-illuminated bodies of differing size. They may include illuminated elementary particles like molecules or others which, for example, are carried along by a flow and also larger illuminated moving objects represented on an image detector as a track. The prerequisite for the process is thus that the objects display tracks on the detector element during the illumination or integration time of the image detector. Characteristically in the process, the detected object tracks are given graphic directional information in arrow or vector form during the picking up of images either by the change in the light intensity impinging on the image detector or by the change in the sensitivity of the image detector.
Abstract:
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus for accurately displaying the velocity distribution of moving members within a living organism. The apparatus constitutes an improvement on the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus of the type wherein an ultrasonic pulse beam is repeatedly transmitted into the living organism at a fixed pulse rate and the reflected echoes are picked up, amplified and displayed, wherein the improvement comprises a complex signal converter for converting a received high frequency signal into complex signals by mixing the received high frequency signal with a pair of complex reference signals which have frequencies that are integer multiples of the pulse rate and which are complexly related to one another, an autocorrelator for determining the autocorrelation of the complex signals, the autocorrelator having a delay time equal to an integer multiple of the pulse period, and a velocity determination circuit for determining the velocity through said autocorrelation. The apparatus is capable of measuring the velocity distribution of moving members within the organism and of rapidly displaying the measured results in real time.
Abstract:
An inexpensive flow meter with a special arrangement of a minimum of transducers always provides an accurate measure of flow of the fluid in a conduit irrespective of the condition of the fluid. Mode control switching circuitry including fluid condition detecting means selectively energizes one or two transmitters in the transducers each of which then feeds a beam of ultrasonic waves to the fluid. Receiver means in the transducers selectively receives both the transmission (transit) mode waves and the reflection (Doppler-shifted) mode waves in accordance with the current condition of the fluid. In one embodiment, the beam of ultrasonic waves uses a single path of travel extending from a transmitter and a receiver while in another embodiment, it uses dual parallel paths extending from two transducers and two receivers.