Patent SG-11201806403U-A (SG)
Title: Probe with no moving parts for a tank
Inventor: WESTMORELAND ALLEN RAY
IPC: G01F23/00
Filed: 2017-02-13
Abstract: INCLINOMETERPROBE PROCESSOR PROBE DATA STORAGE a FIGURE 4 (12) INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property Organization International Bureau (10) International Publication Number (43) International Publication Date WO 2017/139792 Al 17 August 2017 (17.08.2017) WIPO I PCT 111111111111110111011111111111010111110111011101111110111111101011111111111110111111 (51) International Patent Classification: G01C 9/02 (2006.01) GO1F 23/00 (2006.01) (21) International Application Number: PCT/US2017/017712 (22) International Filing Date: 13 February 2017 (13.02.2017) (25) Filing Language: English (26) Publication Language: English (30) Priority Data: 15/041,847 11 February 2016 (11.02.2016) US 15/041,821 11 February 2016 (11.02.2016) US (71) Applicant: INNOVATIVE MEASUREMENT METH- ODS, INC. [US/US]; 910 Industrial Blvd., Suite A, Sugar Land, Texas 77478 (US). (72) Inventors; and (71) Applicants : WESTMORELAND, Allen Ray [US/US]; 910 Industrial Blvd., Suite A, Sugar Land, Texas 77478 (US). HOBEN, John Charles [US/US]; 910 Industrial Blvd., Suite A, Sugar Land, Texas 77478 (US). BUKH- MAN, Alexander [US/US]; 910 Industrial Blvd., Suite A, Sugar Land, Texas 77478 (US). BRODSKY, Yosef [IL/US]; 910 Industrial Blvd., Suite A, Sugar Land, Texas 77478 (US). (74) Agents: RAO DEBOER, PLLC et al.; 2550 Gray Falls Drive, Suite 200, Houston, Texas 77077 (US). (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DJ, DK, DM, DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IR, IS, JP, KE, KG, KH, KN, KP, KR, KW, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LU, LY, MA, MD, ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, NO, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, ZM, ZW. [Continued on next page] (54) Title: PROBE WITH NO MOVING PARTS FOR A TANK (57) : A probe with no moving parts for use in one or more tanks or on a floating vessel. The probe has pressure transducers, temperature sensors, an inclinometer, and a probe processor electrically connected to PROCESSOR HOUSING a the pressure transducers, temperature sensors, optionally an inclinometer and a probe data storage. The probe controls the temperature sensors and pressure transducers to produce bidirectional signals and calculate at least one physical property, performs adaptive measurement for dynamic and static synchronized and non-synchronized measurement, identifies temper- ature sensors and pressure transducers not covered by the fluid, measures multiple parameters of the fluid in the tank, calibrates pressure transducers in a vapor space of the tank when the pressure transducers are no longer in the fluid, and creates bidirectional signals using values from the inclino - meter transferring the bidirectional signals to a client device via a network. W O 20 17 / 1397 9 2 Al WO 2017/139792 Al 0 111 (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, GW, KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). Published: with international search report (Art. 21(3))