Flow rate verification unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10317269-B2
Application number	US-201515516164-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 5, 2015
Priority date	Nov 5, 2014
Publication date	Jun 11, 2019
Grant date	Jun 11, 2019

Abstract

A flow rate verification unit that uses the pressure variation value per unit time of a pressure measurement value measured by a pressure gauge and a temperature measurement value measured by a thermometer in a state where a second shut-off valve is closed to calculate the volume between a flow-rate control valve and the second shut-off valve and verifies the flow rates of mass flow controllers one at a time, wherein a first verification side connection part attachably and detachably connected to an integrated gas unit is provided upstream from the pressure gauge and a serially connected verification gas input valve, verification side mass flow controller, and verification side flow rate control valve are provided in parallel with the second shut-off valve.

First claim

The invention claimed:

1. A flow rate verification unit to perform flow rate verification for an integrated gas unit provided with a plurality of gas supply lines arranged in parallel, each of the gas supply lines including a mass flow controller and a flow rate regulation valve, the flow rate verification unit comprising a pressure gauge, a thermometer, and a shutoff valve which are arranged in series, and the flow rate verification unit being configured to verify a flow rate of each mass flow controller one at a time by calculating a volume between the flow rate regulation valve and the shutoff valve by use of a pressure variation value of a pressure measured value per unit time measured by the pressure gauge and a temperature measured value measured by the thermometer in a state in which the shutoff valve is closed,
wherein the flow rate verification unit further includes a first connection part provided on an upstream side of the pressure gauge, the first connection part being configured to be detachably connected to a common passage that is provided in the integrated gas unit and connected with the plurality of the gas supply lines, and a second connection part connected to a verification gas line provided in the integrated gas unit in a detachable manner,
a verification gas input valve for controlling verification gas that is input from the verification gas line through the second connection part, a verification-side mass flow controller for measuring a flow rate of the verification gas, and a verification-side flow rate regulation valve for controlling the flow rate of the verification gas to make a verification gas flow rate measured value measured by the verification-side mass flow controller agree with a set flow rate are connected in series to each other, and
the verification gas input valve, the verification-side mass flow controller, and the verification-side flow rate regulation valve are arranged in parallel to the shutoff valve.

2. The flow rate verification unit according to claim 1 including a processor programmed to calibrate the verification-side mass flow controller by flowing the verification gas into the verification-side mass flow controller.

3. The flow rate verification unit according to claim 2 , wherein the pressure gauge includes a first pressure gauge and a second pressure gauge which are different in measurement ranges.

4. The flow rate verification unit according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure gauge includes a first pressure gauge and a second pressure gauge which are different in measurement ranges.

Assignees

• Ckd Corp

Inventors

• Shiroyama Naoya
• Sugino Akihito
• Ito Minoru

Classifications

• G01N7/14

  by allowing the material to emit a gas or vapour, e.g. water vapour, and measuring a pressure or volume difference {(determining urea G01N33/48742)} · CPC title

• G05D7/06

  characterised by the use of electric means {(G05D7/005 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• G01F25/00 Primary

  Testing or calibration of apparatus for measuring volume, volume flow or liquid level or for metering by volume · CPC title

• G01F25/0084

  for measuring volume · CPC title

• G01F25/0053

  Physics · mapped topic