Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Weight and flow rate measurement device and weight and flow rate measurement method
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Application No.: US16491285Application Date: 2018-03-05
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Publication No.: US11378439B2Publication Date: 2022-07-05
- Inventor: Shigeki Uebayashi , Takeshi Okamoto , Koji Kawakami
- Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SATAKE CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SATAKE CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Priority: JPJP2017-046615 20170310
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/008368 WO 20180305
- International Announcement: WO2018/164064 WO 20180913
- Main IPC: G01G11/04
- IPC: G01G11/04 ; G01F1/05 ; G01G13/24 ; G01G17/06

Abstract:
A flow rate measurement device improves the flow rate measurement accuracy without increasing the size of the metering tank. The flow rate measurement device includes a metering tank having a supply port at its upper portion and a discharge port at its lower portion, an on-off valve that opens and closes a flow channel inside the metering tank, a weight measurement unit that measures a weight of the metering tank, and flow rate computing unit that supplies powders and/or grains continuously from the supply port to the metering tank, computes a flow rate of the powders and/or grains multiple times in a temporally-overlapped state on the basis of the weight of the metering tank measured by the weight measurement unit in a state where the on-off valve is closed, and computes an average flow rate of the powders and/or grains on the basis of the flow rate computed multiple times.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200025604A1 FLOW RATE MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND FLOW RATE MEASUREMENT METHOD Public/Granted day:2020-01-23
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