Patents Assigned to Krohne A.G.
  • Patent number: 6301974
    Abstract: A mass flowmeter is described and depicted that operates according to the Coriolis principle, with a straight Coriolis tube that conducts the flowing medium, with an oscillation driver, assigned to the Coriolis tube and which excites the Coriolis tube, with two detectors assigned to the Coriolis tube and which register Coriolis forces, or Coriolis oscillations caused by Coriolis forces, and with shell that encloses the Coriolis tube. The mass flowmeter has a notably smaller total length relative to the nominal length of the Coriolis tube than mass flowmeters made according to the prior art because the Coriolis tube is flexibly mounted to an inlet and outlet in the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Krohne A.G.
    Inventors: Roland van der Pol, Yousif A. Hussain
  • Patent number: 6189389
    Abstract: An ultrasonic flowmeter for flowing media, has a measuring tube and at least one ultrasonic transducer, the ultrasonic transducer being installed in contact with the flowing medium in a transducer pocket of the measuring tube. The flowmeter eliminates the disadvantages and problems present in the known ultrasonic flowmeters, caused by eddies generated by the transducer pocket, by providing the transducer pocket with a grid having a mesh, in which the grid is located at the entrance side of the transducer pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Krohne A.G.
    Inventors: Jan Aart van Bekkum, Vladimir Smychliaev
  • Patent number: 6170339
    Abstract: A mass flowmeter is described and depicted that operates according to the Coriolis principle, with a straight Coriolis tube that conducts the flowing medium, with an oscillation driver, assigned to the Coriolis tube and which excites the Coriolis tube, with two detectors assigned to the Coriolis tube and which register Coriolis forces, or Coriolis oscillations caused by Coriolis forces, and with shell that encloses the Coriolis tube. The mass flowmeter has a notably smaller total length relative to the nominal length of the Coriolis tube than mass flowmeters made according to the prior art because the Coriolis tube is flexibly mounted to an inlet and outlet in the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Krohne A.G.
    Inventors: Roland van der Pol, Yousif A. Hussain
  • Patent number: 6158290
    Abstract: A mass flow meter for flowing media that works on the Coriolis Principle includes at least one oscillating Coriolis line carrying the flowing medium and at least one housing holding the Coriolis line, and attachments to the housing. The mass flow meter is characterized by the fact that at least some of the attachments are connected to the housing via means of oscillation decoupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Krohne A.G.
    Inventors: Yousif A. Hussain, Chris N. Rolph
  • Patent number: 6082202
    Abstract: A mass flowmeter for flowing media, which operates according to the Coriolis principle, with one at least basically straight Coriolis line guiding the flowing medium, with at least one oscillation generator acting on the Coriolis line, with at least one sensor detecting Coriolis oscillations based on a Coriolis force and/or Coriolis forces, and with a compensation cylinder, the Coriolis line being located within the compensation cylinder and mechanically connected with the compensation cylinder. According to the invention, the mass flowmeter is designed and further developed so that the oscillation properties of the compensation cylinder essentially correspond to those of the Coriolis line, so that, during operation, the compensation cylinder and the Coriolis line oscillate opposite one another in the manner of a tuning fork.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Krohne A. G.
    Inventor: Yousif A. Hussain
  • Patent number: 6070474
    Abstract: A mass flowmeter for flowing media, which operates according to the Coriolis principle, has a preferably cylindrical housing, at least one preferably essentially straight Coriolis measuring tube located within the housing and connected at both of its ends to the housing, a preferably cylindrical bridge located on the Coriolis measuring tube, at least one oscillation generator acting on the Coriolis measuring tube, and at least one sensor detecting Coriolis forces and/or Coriolis oscillations based on Coriolis forces, the bridge being located symmetrically and designed symmetrically with respect to the mid-point of the Coriolis measuring tube, wherein the midpoint of the Coriolis measuring tube is defined with reference to the ends of the Coriolis measuring tube connected to the housing, and the oscillation generator and the sensor being operative between the Coriolis measuring tube and the bridge, The flowmeter is characterized by the fact that the bridge is provided with a balancing system located essentiall
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Krohne A.G.
    Inventors: Roland van der Pol, Yousif A. Hussain, Chris N. Rolph
  • Patent number: 6041665
    Abstract: A mass flow meter for flowing media, which operates according to the Coriolis principle, has one straight Coriolis measuring tube, several oscillation generators acting on the Coriolis measuring tube and several sensors detecting Coriolis forces and/or Coriolis oscillations based on Coriolis forces. The oscillation generators are designed and arranged so that the Coriolis measuring tube oscillates around its longitudinal axis enabling the flow of gases to be measured with high measuring accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Krohne A.G.
    Inventor: Yousif A. Hussain
  • Patent number: 6011400
    Abstract: A bushing for an electrical high-frequency signal, with at least one conductive element carrying the electrical high-frequency signal, with at least one mechanical supporting element and with at least two insulating elements between the conductive element and the supporting element that perform different functions. The bushing for an electrical high-frequency signal is designed so that the impedances of the insulating elements are basically identical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Krohne A.G.
    Inventor: Christian Nicolas
  • Patent number: 5987997
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a device for ultrasound measurement of the flow of flowing media with a measuring tube (1), with at least two pairs of ultrasound transducers arranged on the measuring tube, each forming a measuring path (M1,M2,M3,M4,M5), with a transducer (2) determining the velocities of the medium along the measuring paths (M1,M2,M3,M4,M5) from the signals of the pair of ultrasound transducers and with an adder (3) determining the flow quantity of the medium from the velocities of the medium along the measuring paths (M1,M2,M3,M4,M5).According to the invention, such a method and such a device are designed with a Reynolds' number meter (5) that determines the Reynolds' number constantly and a flow-quantity corrector (6) connected to the adder (3) and the Reynolds' meter (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Krohne A.G.
    Inventors: Abram Klaas Roskam, Jan Aart van Bekkum, Vladimir Smychliaev
  • Patent number: 5824915
    Abstract: A volume flow meter for flowing media that works on the transit-time principle includes a conduit measurement section carrying the flowing medium, two ultrasonic transducers arranged on opposite ends of the conduit measurement section sending ultrasonic signals into the flowing medium and/or receiving them from the flowing medium and a control and evaluation circuit. The ultrasonic transducers send ultrasonic signals into the flowing medium via thermally insulating ultrasonic waveguides. The control and evaluation circuit determines the volume flow based on the difference between the total transit time of the ultrasonic signals between the ultrasonic transducers and the sum of the transit times of the ultrasonic signals in the ultrasonic waveguies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Krohne A.G.
    Inventors: Arie Hujzer, Andre H. Boer
  • Patent number: 5291792
    Abstract: A mass flow meter for flow media which works on the Coriolis Principle, has a straight Coriolis pipe carrying the flow medium, an oscillator acting on the Coriolis pipe and two transducers detecting Coriolis forces and/or Coriolis oscillations based on Coriolis forces. The Coriolis pipe also carries mass bodies and is arranged inside of a housing or compensation cylinder. The mass flow meter improves the measurement result that can be obtained by increasing the stiffness of the Coriolis pipe for the excitation mode, preferably by including a reinforcing spring which acts on Coriolis pipe to increase the pipe stiffness for the excitation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: Krohne A.G.
    Inventors: Yousif A. Hussain, Chris N. Rolph