Method and arrangement for an ultrasound clamp-on flow measurement and circuit arrangement for control of an ultrasound clamp-on flow measurement

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PATENT NO 10330509
APP PUB NO 20170307427A1
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15520619

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The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for an ultrasound clamp-on flow measurement according to the transit-time method. The problem addressed by the invention is to provide a measurement arrangement for clamp-on flow measurement, which enables measurement using only two pairs of acoustic transducers in both reflection configuration and in X configuration, without requiring the acoustic transducer position to be changed when switching between configurations. For the method according to the invention, at least four acoustic transducers are arranged on a measurement pipe, which are controlled in such a way that the flow measurement is performed consecutively in an alternating manner in the X configuration and in the reflection configuration. For this purpose, two acoustic transducers are connected for each transmission-receiving pair for a flow measurement in X configuration, and/or two acoustic transducers are connected for each transmission-receiving pair for two reflection configurations.

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FLEXIM FLEXIBLE INDUSTRIEMESSTECHNIK GMBH12681 BERLIN

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Funck, Bernhard Rostock, DE 7 34

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