US Patent Issued to FUJI ELECTRIC on July 14 for "Clamp-on type ultrasonic flowmeter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,849, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Clamp-on type ultrasonic flowmeter" was invented by Shiori Yamashita (Asaka-city, Japan) and Takuya Shibasaki (Ootsuki-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamp-on type ultrasonic flowmeter that uses ultrasonic waves for measuring a flow rate of a fluid flowing inside a piping, incudes: an ultrasonic transducer having a wedge on which piezoelectric device is attached. Further, the wedge of the ultrasonic transducer has a positioning recess portion formed on a tilted surface of the wedge, and the positioning recess portion defines a position of...