Patents Assigned to BURKERT S.A.S.
  • Patent number: 11953469
    Abstract: A fluid measuring device for determining at least one characteristic property of a fluid includes a measuring tube having a fluid duct and a measuring section in which the measuring tube is cylindrical on the inside and an area of a measuring tube wall is configured as a waveguide, and a transmitter for exciting acoustic waves in the waveguide and a receiver for receiving acoustic waves which are in direct contact with an outer surface of the waveguide, wherein acoustic waves excited by the transmitter are adapted to propagate as a volume wave through the fluid. The waveguide has an elongated waveguide path which extends at an acute angle to a longitudinal extension direction of the measuring tube and with a component in the circumferential direction, wherein in the area of the waveguide path, the measuring tube wall has a smaller wall thickness than in areas adjoining the waveguide path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: BUERKERT WERKE GMBH & CO. KG, BURKERT S.A.S.
    Inventor: Yannick Fuchs
  • Patent number: 11690189
    Abstract: A fluid measuring or fluid control device has a housing the housing parts of which are fastened to each other by at least one screwed connection, in which a screw engages through an opening in a peripheral wall of the first housing part and is screwed into a threaded opening in the second housing part. An elastic seal is arranged between the housing parts. The first housing part has a first resting face, and the second housing part has a second resting face which are both in peripherally circumferential contact with the seal. The screw shank and an edge of the opening have cooperating frustoconical surfaces which are oriented such that the second housing part is displaced in the direction towards the first housing part when the screw is screwed into the threaded opening, the resting faces coming into contact with the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: Buerkert Werke GmbH & Co. KG, Burkert S.A.S.
    Inventors: Jan Magnussen, Lukas Ungerer, Markus Herrmann, Jürgen Wiedemann
  • Patent number: 11635316
    Abstract: A fluid measuring arrangement with a flow channel for a fluid to be measured having at least two areas of an outer wall forming waveguide parts for surface acoustic waves. The waveguide parts are spaced apart from each other along the circumference of the flow channel. A first and/or a second signal converter is arranged at each waveguide part, wherein at least two first signal converters arranged on different waveguide parts or two second signal converters arranged on different waveguide parts are spaced with respect to each other in the axial direction of the flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: Buerkert Werke GmbH & Co. KG, Burkert S.A.S.
    Inventors: Yannick Fuchs, Yves Hoog, Bertrand Koenig
  • Patent number: 11435210
    Abstract: A fluid meter has a housing comprising a flow channel for fluid to be measured and at least one elongate module-receiving opening forming a passage from an outer surface of the housing to the flow channel. At least one fluid-measuring module, prefabricated separately, from the housing with a base section formed as a waveguide for surface acoustic waves, and at least one signal transformer to excite surface acoustic waves in the waveguide and/or receive surface acoustic waves from the waveguide is provided. When inserted into the module-receiving opening, the base section of the fluid-measuring module forms part of the flow channel inner wall and contacts fluid flowing through it. Surface acoustic waves emitted by the signal transformer can be coupled out of the waveguide and can propagate through fluid in the flow channel as bulk acoustic waves and/or bulk acoustic waves can be coupled into the waveguide and received by the signal transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: BUERKERT WERKE GMBH & CO. KG, BURKERT S.A.S.
    Inventors: Yannick Fuchs, Bertrand Koenig, Noam Nancy, Manon Drui
  • Patent number: 11204269
    Abstract: Fluid meter with a fluid housing and a method for manufacturing the fluid housing, which comprises a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet and a fluid channel, which extends between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet and which is fluidically coupled to the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet, wherein the fluid housing has a side facing the fluid channel, to which a fluid-measuring module is assigned, which is in direct contact with a fluid flowing through the fluid channel at a fluid-side interface, wherein the fluid-measuring module is surrounded by the fluid housing, and wherein the fluid-measuring module is equipped to generate surface acoustic waves which propagate along the fluid-side interface of the fluid-measuring module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignees: Buerkert Werke GmbH & Co. KG, Burkert S.A.S.
    Inventors: Yannick Fuchs, Yves Hoog
  • Patent number: 10845338
    Abstract: A fluid meter has a measuring tube which has a fluid channel allowing a fluid (F) to flow through and which has a measuring section in which at least one area of a measuring tube wall is formed as a waveguide for surface acoustic waves, which forms an interface with the fluid (F), and at least one transmitter for exciting acoustic waves in the waveguide as well as at least one receiver for receiving acoustic waves from the waveguide, wherein acoustic waves excited by the transmitter can propagate through the fluid (F) as a bulk wave (V) and the bulk wave (V) has at least one reflection point (IP) on the measuring tube wall. The measuring tube wall has a first wall thickness (T1) in the area of the transmitter and in the area of the receiver and has a second wall thickness (T2) which differs from the first wall thickness (T1) in the area of all reflection points (IP) of the bulk wave (V).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: BUERKERT WERKE GMBH & CO. KG, BURKERT S.A.S.
    Inventors: Yannick Fuchs, Yves Hoog, Bertrand Koenig, Stanislas Clatot
  • Patent number: 10508940
    Abstract: A measuring device with a fluid module is proposed, which comprises a measuring tube through which a fluid can flow and at least one acoustic measuring unit. The at least one acoustic measuring unit comprises at least one transmitter, at least one receiver as well as at least one waveguide. The measuring tube has at least one measuring section with a substantially angular internal cross section and at least one connecting section with a non-angular internal cross section, wherein the measuring tube has at least one transition section, which extends between the measuring section and the connecting section. The transition section has an internal cross section identical to the internal cross section of the measuring section at an end allocated to the measuring section and further an internal cross section identical to the internal cross section of the connecting section at an end allocated to the connecting section. Furthermore, a fluidic system is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: BUERKERT WERKE GMBH & CO. KG, BURKERT S.A.S.
    Inventors: Hendrik Faustmann, Yannick Fuchs, Yves Hoog, Franziska Maier, Michael Tischmacher