Liquid-level detector

Title: Liquid-level detector

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Aliquid level sensor is described which has a pair of upright conductors spaced by an insulator defining a first high resistance path between the conductors. An electrically conductive path is interposed between the upright conductors at a discrete location at which liquid level is to be measured. It includes a liquid accessible gap of a dimension such that the electrical resistance across the conductor when the gap is filled with the liquid is detectably less than when the gap is emptied. The conductor might also be physically altered by temperature changes to serve also as an indicator of elevated temperature.

Issue Date:: 1981-01-29

OSTI Identifier:: 5616933

Application Number:: ON: DE82004458

Assignee:: Dept. of Energy TIC; NTS-82-004391; ERA-07-030506; EDB-82-072933

DOE Contract Number:: AC06-76RL01830

Resource Type:: Patent

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; LEVEL INDICATORS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; EQUIPMENT; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; 440300* - Miscellaneous Instruments- (-1989)

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