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patent · US6491659

Liquid flow rate controller

10 December 2002

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This patent is cited by material in the archive, so it is indexed here by number, title and inventor. The archive holds no copy of its text.

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Abstract

A liquid flow rate detector and controller having a microprocessor that senses the rate of drops falling in a monitoring balloon on a fluid tube. A light emitter/detector diode pair detects drops as they fall in the balloon, which are timed by the microprocessor. The device has first and second switches manufactured in a single small unit made of thin laminates. Each switch comprises an electrode and a contact point, mutually facing across a gap in the layers. The lamina on a...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2000-03-02
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2002-12-10
Inventors
Isshin Miyamoto