The present method makes use of a second receiver-transmitter pair, which, together with a first pair, forms a quadrilateral figure, the horizontal sides of which are parallel to the level of a liquid. In addition, the values of the energy characteristics of Lamb waves propagated simultaneously both between each of the horizontal receiver-transmitter pairs and between a second vertical receiver-transmitter pair are calculated using values obtained from certain horizontal pairs to determine the initial and final values of the measuring scale of other pairs, by means of which the height of the liquid level is determined and/or measured. The device comprises an acoustic receiver and an emitter, each provided with a piezoelectric transducer, which are mounted at a set distance from one another such that a liquid level monitoring region lies therebetween for the simultaneous excitation of a symmetrical and an antisymmetric normal zero mode Lame wave, the device further comprising a second acoustic receiver-transmitter pair and a signal generating and converting unit. Technical result: increased monitoring accuracy together with increased monitoring speed and a broader scope of application.

A vehicle having a wading sensor may include a control unit adapted to implement an alternative or modified vehicle control strategy during wading. The wading strategy may change many vehicle functions, alone or in combination, and may be further responsive to depth of wading.

A level sensor includes a substrate having at least one reflective side surface, at least one wave generator on one end of the substrate configured to transmit a wave down the surface of the substrate and a plurality of reflective echelons mounted on the substrate such that each echelon is at an angle relative to reflective side surface. The reflective echelons are configured to convert a wave of a first mode in to a wave of a second mode.

Disclosed are a liquid level switch system and a liquid level measurement method. The liquid level switch system has a transmitting probe, a receiving probe and a main unit. The transmitting probe is located at a warning position on the outer wall of a tank body, the receiving probe is located on the outer wall of the tank body, and the transmitting probe and the receiving probe are respectively connected to the main unit by means of cables. A piezoelectric plate is placed on an inclined block to change the incident angle of an ultrasonic signal entering the tank wall so as to generate a longitudinal wave signal and a transverse wave signal, and the main unit judges, according to a signal strength difference value between a longitudinal wave receiving signal and a transverse wave receiving signal, whether the liquid level of the tank body reaches the warning position.

Disclosed are a liquid level switch system and a liquid level measurement method. The liquid level switch system has a transmitting probe, a receiving probe and a main unit. The transmitting probe is located at a warning position on the outer wall of a tank body, the receiving probe is located on the outer wall of the tank body, and the transmitting probe and the receiving probe are respectively connected to the main unit by means of cables. A piezoelectric plate is placed on an inclined block to change the incident angle of an ultrasonic signal entering the tank wall so as to generate a longitudinal wave signal and a transverse wave signal, and the main unit judges, according to a signal strength difference value between a longitudinal wave receiving signal and a transverse wave receiving signal, whether the liquid level of the tank body reaches the warning position.

A vehicle comprises a driver display on which is displayed an advisory maximum wading speed according to the current wading depth of the vehicle. The advisory speed is in one embodiment displayed on the vehicle speedometer. The display may also include an elevation of a vehicle on which is indicated one or more of maximum wading depth, current wading depth and vehicle inclination.

A wading sensor for a vehicle comprises an ultrasonic parking distance control. An embodiment detects wading by sensing the difference in the settling time of the diaphragm of a transmitter/receiver, in water and in air. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A wading vehicle (100) having a water level sensor (114) comprising a hydrostatic pressure sensor.

A method for determining and/or monitoring the viscosity of a medium, wherein a mechanically oscillatable unit is excited to execute oscillations based on an exciter signal, and wherein oscillations are received from the mechanically oscillatable unit and transduced into a received signal. The eigenfrequency and/or resonance frequency of the mechanically oscillatable unit and/or phase relationship between the exciter signal and the received signal are/is ascertained and/or monitored, and from changes in the eigenfrequency and/or resonance frequency and/or phase relationship, a change in viscosity is deduced and/or, based on dependencies of the oscillations on the viscosity of the medium, from the eigenfrequency and/or resonance frequency and/or phase relationship, viscosity is ascertained. In a second variant of the method, decay behavior of the mechanically oscillatable unit is evaluated. An apparatus for determining and/or monitoring viscosity is also presented.

Apparatus is provided featuring a signal processor configured to receive from an array of ultrasonic transponders around a tank, container or flow pipe signaling containing information about acoustic waves of energy penetrating a fluid in the tank, container or flow pipe; and determine using tomography a three-dimensional image of layers of the fluid in the tank, container or flow pipe based at least partly on the signalling received and. The signal processor provides corresponding signal containing information about the three-dimensional image of the layers of the fluid in the tank, container or flow pipe. The array is an obliquely oriented array of ultrasonic transponders arranged on an oblique plane to the axis of the tank or column; or the array is placed normal to the flow around the exterior of the flow pipe.