US 11,698,280 B2
Inspecting an ultrasound flow meter
Ekkehard Riedel, Ottendorf-Okrilla (DE); Martin Oberländer, Ottendorf-Okrilla (DE); and Arnd Schlicke, Ottendorf-Okrilla (DE)
Assigned to SICK ENGINEERING GMBH, Ottendorf-Okrilla (DE)
Filed by SICK Engineering GmbH, Ottendorf-Okrilla (DE)
Filed on Jun. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/358,439.
Claims priority of application No. 20182643 (EP), filed on Jun. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0404848 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. G01F 1/66 (2022.01); G01F 1/667 (2022.01)
CPC G01F 1/662 (2013.01) [G01F 1/667 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A portable inspection device for an ultrasound flow meter, the inspection device comprising:
an inspection chamber having a fluid at a flow velocity of zero;
a first installation station for a first ultrasonic transducer; and
a second installation station for a second ultrasonic transducer of the ultrasound flow meter so that the first and second ultrasonic transducers are aligned toward one another on a connection line in the installed state and span an ultrasound measurement path through the inspection chamber on the connection line,
wherein the inspection chamber has a geometry in which the distance between the first and second installation stations, and consequently a length, L, of the ultrasound measurement path, is large enough so that a direct ultrasound signal from the first ultrasonic transducer to the second ultrasonic transducer is separated in time from later echoes, such that

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where c0, is a speed of sound, s is a selectable safety factor greater than zero, nτ is a number of periods of the direct ultrasound signal, and τ is a period length of the direct ultrasound signal, and/or
wherein a distance of the first and second installation stations from respective adjacent side walls of the inspection chamber, and consequently a distance, a, of the ultrasound measurement path from the side walls, is large enough so that the direct ultrasound signal on the ultrasound measurement path is separated in time from secondary ultrasound signals that do not propagate on the ultrasound measurement path, such that

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