Method and apparatus for enhancing in-situ gas flow measurement performance

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8265888
APP PUB NO 20110137583A1
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12634629

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An in-situ gas flow measurement controller measures the temperature and rate of pressure drop upstream from a flow control device (FCD). The controller samples the pressure and temperature data and applies the equivalent of a decimating filter to the data to produce filtered data at a slower sampling rate. The controller derives timestamps by counting ticks from the sampling clock of the A/D converter that is sampling the pressure at regular intervals to ensure the timestamps associated with the pressure samples are accurate and do not contain jitter that is associated with software clocks. The controller additionally normalizes the temperature reading to account for power supply fluctuations, filters out noise from the pressure and temperature readings, and excludes data during periods of instability. It calculates the gas flow rate accounting for possible non-linearities in the pressure measurements, and provides the computed gas flow measurement via one of many possible interfaces.

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PIVOTAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION48389 FREMONT BLVD SUITE 100 FREMONT CA 94538

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chalmers, James MacAllen Danville, US 10 290
Chen, Jialing San Jose, US 14 359
Chung, Sherk Piedmont, US 22 312
Monkowski, Joseph R Danville, US 26 1108
Shtilman, Sophia Leonidovna Sunnyvale, US 4 82
Tran, Paul Sacramento, US 14 550
Wang, Yi Foster City, US 1349 14754

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