Unitary Synthesis of Flow Meters via Logical Network
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for synthesizing and designing flowmeters and compound gauging structures rely on intuitive and random criteria, making them inefficient and costly due to dependence on the development of various fields of physics, lacking a systematic and unitary approach.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method using unitary fundamental analytical and structural bases to design flowmeters and compound gauging structures, enabling logical and coherent synthesis by defining a 'unitary reference logical network' that includes basic elements, synthesis logical questions, and response solutions, allowing for the configuration and design of new types independently of physics development.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If current methods based on investigation of various fields of physics are used, then new working principles may be identified, but the process becomes complex, laborious, long lasting and very costly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the flowmeter synthesis process into distinct modules: defining measurement parameters, selecting physical principles from a structured library, configuring functional blocks, and validating design criteria. This modular approach replaces the previous monolithic investigative process, making it systematic and manageable while maintaining the ability to discover new working principles through organized exploration of physical domains.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes a pre-defined library of physical principles and analytical relationships that can be directly applied to flowmeter design. Instead of starting from scratch with open-ended physics investigation, designers can select from pre-validated principles and relationships, significantly reducing the time and cost required while maintaining innovation capability through systematic combination and adaptation of known principles.
2Adaptability or versatility
If current intuitive and random criteria are used for flowmeter synthesis, then design flexibility is maintained, but efficiency decreases and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a dynamic design system where criteria and constraints can be adjusted based on specific application requirements. The structured methodology allows designers to flexibly select and weight different design criteria, physical principles, and functional configurations depending on the measurement task, maintaining adaptability while eliminating randomness through systematic evaluation and selection processes.
3Adaptability or versatility
If dependence on development of various fields of physics is maintained, then potential for innovation is preserved, but systematic methodological basis is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal synthesis methodology that can systematically handle diverse flowmeasurement applications and physical principles through a common framework. The structured approach provides reliable, repeatable design procedures that work across different measurement scenarios while maintaining innovation potential through systematic exploration and combination of physical principles, analytical relationships, and functional configurations.
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AI summary
The method according to the invention, intended to fluid flow measurement in closed conduits and open channels, provides the stages and the steps of achieving the synthesis and design of flowmeters, respectively of compound gauging structures, by knowing and systematically applying the unitary analytical and structural bases, previously identified as being common to them. Initially, it is stored a " reference unitary logic network", comprising possible basic structural schemes, a unique set of synthesizing criteria and the sequence to be followed, and possible response solutions for each one, respectively logical restrictions for responses correlation. After introduction and validation of a "set of initial data of synthesis", are successively browsed some logical criteria in the form of logic questions, by selecting for each of them, the responses logically valid, consistent with those selected for previous criteria. Then, by successively connecting responses and retaining the identified correlations, it is obtained a global configuration, which, after validating its originality, it constitutes the synthesis of the new basic type of flowmeter, or of compound of gauging structure. Method is directly computer implementable and allows both the achievement of new types that respond to logic coherence of the synthesis of functional blocks of flowmeters, respectively the analysis of any existing type of flowmeter or of compound gauging structures.