PORTABLE FLUID SENSING SYSTEM AND SENSING METHOD USING A FLEXURAL RESONATOR

摘要

In the methods, systems and apparatus of the present invention, a property of a fluid in a fluidic system is monitored using a sensor interfaced with the fluidic system. In some embodiments, the interfaced sensor is formed from and includes at least one sensor subassembly interfaced with an installed unit that is either a sensor or another sensor subassembly. Likewise, the systems and apparatus of the present invention comprise a sensor or a sensor subassembly. In each case, the sensor is a flexural resonator sensor. In preferred embodiments, a flexural resonator sensor comprises a flexural resonator sensing element having a sensing surface for contacting the fluid being sensed. In operation during a sensing period, the sensing surface of a flexural resonator displaces or is displaced by at least a portion of the fluid being sensed.