Differential pressure type liquid level meter

• US 4,869,104 A
• Filed: 03/28/1989
• Issued: 09/26/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Igarashi, Shigeo, Takano, Kozo, Ushirokoji, Kiyoyuki, Saito, Hirokazu
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Scanlon, Patrick R.
• Application Number:
  US07/329,641
• Time in Patent Office: 182 Days
• Field of Search: 73/299, 73/301, 73/302, 73/303, 73/708, 165/47
• US Class Current: 73/299
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 23/162 by a liquid column

Abstract

A pressure difference type liquid level meter for measuring the quantity of an object liquid includes a liquid receptacle containing the object liquid, a pressure transmitting device including a pressure transmitting liquid for transmitting a pressure from the object liquid to a pressure difference detector so as to compare the transmitted pressure with a reference pressure, and an isothermal device for maintaining at least part of the pressure transmitting liquid at a predetermined temperature.

Claims

1. A differential pressure type liquid level meter for measuring a quantity of liquid based on a pressure difference between a liquid pressure and a reference pressure, comprising

a measuring receptacle for containing a liquid whose quantity is to be measured;

a pressure difference detector;

pressure transmitting means comprising a diaphragm and a liquid sealed between said diaphragm and said pressure difference detector for transmitting pressure from said liquid in said receptacle to said pressure difference detector;

means for producing a reference pressure and transmitting it to said pressure difference detector; and

isothermal means for maintaining said sealed liquid at a predetermined temperature, said isothermal means including a chamber enclosing at least part of said sealed liquid therein and means for circulating in said chamber a heating liquid maintained at said predetermined temperature, said chamber having a bottom member closing the chamber, said circulating means comprising an inlet for said heating liquid and an outlet for said heating liquid both passing through said bottom member, said inlet and outlet opening into said chamber on opposite sides of said chamber, and an upright discharge pipe connected at its lower end to said bottom member and communicating with said heating liquid outlet, said pipe terminating at its upper end below the upper end of the chamber to serve as an overflow pipe through which said heating liquid which has entered said chamber through said heating liquid inlet flows after passing upwardly through said chamber and from side to side across said chamber.

2. A pressure difference type liquid level meter as defined in claim 1, wherein said reference pressure is atmospheric pressure.

3. Pressure difference type liquid level meter as defined in claim 1, wherein said heating liquid is warm water.

4. A pressure difference type liquid level meter as defined in claim 1 wherein said heating liquid is warm oil.

5. A differential pressure type liquid level meter for measuring a quantity of liquid based on a pressure difference between the pressure of the liquid whose quantity is to be measured and a reference pressure, said liquid level meter comprising:

a measuring receptacle for containing a subject liquid whose quantity is to be measured;

pressure transmitting means including a pressure transmitting liquid for transmitting said pressure from said subject liquid in said receptacle to a pressure difference detector to compare said transmitted pressure with said reference pressure in order to obtain the pressure difference; and

isothermal means for maintaining said transmitting liquid at a predetermined temperature, said isothermal means including a chamber enclosing at least part of said pressure transmitting liquid therein and means for circulating in said chamber a heating liquid maintained at said predetermined temperature, said chamber having a bottom member closing the chamber, said circulating means comprising an inlet for said heating liquid and an outlet for said heating liquid both passing through said bottom member, said inlet and outlet opening into said chamber on opposite sides of said chamber, and an upright discharge pipe connected at its lower end to said bottom member and communicating with said heating liquid outlet, said pipe terminating at its upper end below the upper end of the chamber to serve as an overflow pipe through which said heating liquid which has entered said chamber through said heating liquid inlet flows after passing upwardly through said chamber and from side to side across said chamber.

6. A pressure difference type liquid level meter as defined in claim 5, wherein said pressure transmitting means includes a diaphragm on which said pressure from said subject liquid is directly exerted, said pressure transmitting liquid being sealed between said diaphragm and said pressure difference detector.