Patent ID: 7121158
Filing Date: 2006-10-17
Classification: G01D,G01K

Abstract:
1. A method of installing a sensor on an active conduit, the method comprising: attaching an adaptor to a corporation stop valve to form a first seal between the adaptor and the corporation stop valve, where the corporation stop valve is installed on the active conduit; positioning a sensor to a first position in the adaptor, wherein at the first position, a second seal has formed between the sensor and the adaptor and the sensor has not reached the corporation stop valve; in response to the sensor being in the adaptor at the first position, automatically inhibiting further positioning of the sensor toward the active conduit with an inhibition; and opening the corporation stop valve, removing the inhibition preventing further positioning of the sensor towards the active conduit, and positioning the sensor to a second position where the sensor extends through the open corporation stop valve into the active conduit wherein the sensor is configured to measure characteristics of a material in the active conduit; wherein the sensor and the adaptor are configured to vent a restricted portion of the material in the active conduit when the sensor is positioned away from the first and second positions and when the corporation stop valve is open to warn an operator that the corporation stop valve is open by means of breaking the second seal between the sensor and the adaptor.