Claims
- 1. A flow rate meter having a housing and a measuring body disposed in a flow conduit, the measuring body being pivotally deflectable, counter to a restoring force, about a bearing shaft supported in the housing in accordance with the quantity of a medium flowing through the conduit, in particular for measuring the quantity of air aspirated by an internal combustion engine via an air intake tube, characterized in that said measuring body has two parallel side faces which extend at substantially right angles to said bearing shaft and each of which is oriented toward a lateral wall of said flow conduit, each such lateral wall of the flow conduit having a step such that a lateral gap between the measuring body and each said lateral wall is provided which is narrow in the range of a slight deflection of the measuring body and is wider in the range of a greater deflection of the measuring body.
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Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 306,811 filed Sept. 9, 1981, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,392,386.
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