Patents by Inventor Jan-Willem Ramondt

Jan-Willem Ramondt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9846209
    Abstract: A homogenization device for homogenization of a magnetic field with an non-magnetic carrier and compensation elements formed of a magnetic material, the carrier having a carrier wall and the carrier wall surrounding a carrier interior, in the homogenization device located in the magnetic field the magnetic field penetrating into the carrier interior through a first carrier region of the carrier wall and emerging from the carrier interior through a second carrier region of the carrier wall and each of the compensation elements which are located on the carrier contributing to the homogenization of the magnetic field at least in the carrier interior. In the homogenization device, handling during homogenization is improved in that there are recesses in the carrier wall and in each of the recesses at least one of the compensation elements can be directly inserted and removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Ariël de Graaf, Henry van der Linden, Jan Teunis Aart Pors, Jan-Willem Ramondt
  • Patent number: 9541435
    Abstract: A nuclear magnetic flowmeter is disclosed. The nuclear magnetic flowmeter includes a magnetization device located around a straight measuring tube for producing a magnetic field in a medium. The flowmeter also includes a gradient coil that produces a gradient in the field. The flowmeter further includes a signal coil that excites the medium and that detects the result of the excitation. Additionally, the flowmeter includes a coil insulating frame and a sealed housing. The housing is along a longitudinal axis of the tube and has a first face side and a second face side having openings through which the tube is routed. The magnetization device is provided in the interior of the housing. The gradient coil and the signal coil are located in a space between the tube and magnetization device that is penetrated by the field. The gradient coil and/or the signal coil are located on the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Jan Teunis Aart Pors, Jan-Willem Ramondt
  • Patent number: 9429456
    Abstract: A magnetization device with a magnetic field which is generated by permanent magnets for variable magnetization of a medium flowing through a tube over a magnetization distance along the longitudinal axis of the tube. The magnetization device improves the quality of the results relative to known nuclear magnetic resonance measurement and analysis methods in that the magnetic field in the medium has a single direction over the magnetization distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Marco Leendert Zoeteweij, Olaf Jean Paul Bousché, Cornelis Johannes Hogendoorn, Ariël de Graaf, Jan Teunis Aart Pors, Jan-Willem Ramondt
  • Patent number: 9316515
    Abstract: A magnet module for a nuclear magnetic flow meter including at least one permanent magnet and a jacket. The jacket protects the at least one permanent magnet against peeling of magnet material by mechanical loads when the magnet module is introduced into a magnet receiver of the flow meter, simplifies introduction of the permanent magnets into the magnet receivers by reduced friction between the magnet module and the magnet receivers, and influences the magnetic field which generated by the permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Jan Teunis Aart Pors, Jan-Willem Ramondt, Johannes Antonius Spithoven
  • Publication number: 20150070018
    Abstract: A homogenization device for homogenization of a magnetic field with an non-magnetic carrier and compensation elements formed of a magnetic material, the carrier having a carrier wall and the carrier wall surrounding a carrier interior, in the homogenization device located in the magnetic field the magnetic field penetrating into the carrier interior through a first carrier region of the carrier wall and emerging from the carrier interior through a second carrier region of the carrier wall and each of the compensation elements which are located on the carrier contributing to the homogenization of the magnetic field at least in the carrier interior. In the homogenization device, handling during homogenization is improved in that there are recesses in the carrier wall and in each of the recesses at least one of the compensation elements can be directly inserted and removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Ariël de Graaf, Henry van der Linden, Jan Teunis Aart Pors, Jan-Willem Ramondt
  • Publication number: 20140266188
    Abstract: A nuclear magnetic flowmeter is disclosed. The nuclear magnetic flowmeter includes a magnetization device located around a straight measuring tube for producing a magnetic field in a medium. The flowmeter also includes a gradient coil that produces a gradient in the field. The flowmeter further includes a signal coil that excites the medium and that detects the result of the excitation. Additionally, the flowmeter includes a coil insulating frame and a sealed housing. The housing is along a longitudinal axis of the tube and has a first face side and a second face side having openings through which the tube is routed. The magnetization device is provided in the interior of the housing. The gradient coil and the signal coil are located in a space between the tube and magnetization device that is penetrated by the field. The gradient coil and/or the signal coil are located on the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Jan Teunis Aart Pors, Jan-Willem Ramondt
  • Publication number: 20140028310
    Abstract: A magnetization device with a magnetic field which is generated by permanent magnets for variable magnetization of a medium flowing through a tube over a magnetization distance along the longitudinal axis of the tube. The magnetization device improves the quality of the results relative to known nuclear magnetic resonance measurement and analysis methods in that the magnetic field in the medium has a single direction over the magnetization distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Marco Leendert Zoeteweij, Olaf Jean Paul Bousché, Cornelis Johannes Hogendoorn, Ariël de Graaf, Jan Teunis Aart Pors, Jan-Willem Ramondt
  • Publication number: 20140021948
    Abstract: A nuclear magnetic flowmeter with a measuring tube, a signal apparatus for generating signals to excite a medium flowing through the tube and/or for evaluating signals of the excited medium, at least one signal coil located on the measuring tube for sending signals from the signal apparatus and/or for receiving signals of the excited medium and a matching device between the signal apparatus and the signal coil which has a reactive adjustment object a value of which can be rotationally adjusted mechanically and an adjusting apparatus which is assigned to the adjustment object. The adjustment apparatus has a rotary final control element which influences the adjustment object, a rotary actuator which acts on the rotary final control element, a torque clutch between the rotary actuator and the rotary final control element which transmits a torque generated by the rotary actuator to the rotary final control element, and a rotary stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Jan Teunis Aart Pors, Jan-Willem Ramondt