(6,452,467) Material Level Sensor Having a Wire-Horn Launcher

Keywords: Electronic Dipstick.

Abstract: TDR circuit, sampler, time-of-peak detectors. A single-wire horn time-domain reflectometer (TDR) combines the best performance features of prior art "electronic dipsticks" in a high accuracy implementation that allows tank penetration through a small opening using a flexible wire-horn antenna.

Applications include precision fluid level sensors (dipsticks).