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Patent US7290450 - Process diagnostics - Google Patents
A diagnostic device for use in a industrial process includes monitoring electronics or diagnostic circuitry configured to diagnose or identify a condition or other occurrence in the industrial process. The system can be implemented in a process device such as a flowmeter, and in one example an acoustic...http://www.google.com/patents/US7290450?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7290450 - Process diagnostics
Publication number US7290450 B2
Application number US 10/893,144
Also published as CN1853098A, CN1853098B, EP1646864A2, US20050011278, WO2005010522A2, WO2005010522A3, WO2005010522A9
Publication number 10893144, 893144, US 7290450 B2, US 7290450B2, US-B2-7290450, US7290450 B2, US7290450B2
Inventors Gregory C. Brown, Marcos Peluso, Robert J. Karschnia
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U.S. Classification 73/579, 73/597, 73/861.23, 73/602
International Classification G01N29/036, G01N29/14
Cooperative Classification G01N2291/02872, G01N2291/02836, G01N2291/014, G01N29/449, G01N29/14, G01N29/036, G01F1/7082, G01F1/666
European Classification G01F1/708A, G01F1/66E, G01N29/14, G01N29/036, G01N29/44S