Patents Assigned to Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
  • Patent number: 9200934
    Abstract: A coil system for a magneto inductive, flow measuring device, which comprises: a coil and core sheets led through the coil. The core sheets have equal shape and size, wherein each core sheet has a first and a second leg, which are connected together to form an L shape. At least a first core sheet and a second core sheet are so led through the coil that the first leg of the first core sheet and the first leg of the second core sheet extend parallel to one another and that the second leg of the first core sheet and the second leg of the second core sheet extend parallel to one another, wherein the second leg of the first core sheet and the second leg of the second core sheet are arranged at different ends of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventor: Oliver Graf
  • Patent number: 9200931
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a measuring transducer of the vibration-type for a fluid flowing in a flexible hose. The measuring transducer includes, a hose carrier unit, which has at least sectionally a loop-shaped outer contour, around which a flexible hose can be led. Furthermore, the measuring transducer includes a clamping unit, by which a flexible hose led in use around the loop-shaped outer contour is tightenable against the loop-shaped outer contour, at least one exciter coupled to the hose carrier unit, by which the hose carrier unit is excitable to execute mechanical oscillations, which are accompanied by alternating elastic deformation of the hose carrier unit, and at least one oscillation sensor, by which mechanical oscillations of the hose carrier unit and/or a flexible hose installed in use in the measuring transducer are registerable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Mamadi Keita, Mike Touzin, Antoine Simon
  • Patent number: 9182262
    Abstract: A temperature sensor and a flow measuring device. The temperature sensor comprising: a housing which comprises a housing body from which at least a first shell and a second shell protrude, each of which shells comprises a first end section, a second end section and a longitudinal axis. A temperature sensor element is arranged, which has especially a thin-film resistance thermometer, wherein one of the temperature sensor elements is heatable, and which shells have outsides, which interface the housing with the environment. From each temperature sensor element at least one connection wire leads away, which is connected with a circuit board. The housing body has a housing chamber, which is connected with inner hollow spaces of the shells, wherein the circuit board is arranged in the housing chamber, and wherein the circuit board is positioned in the housing chamber by a snap-in connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Achim Wiest, Heinerich Hagenmeyer, Roy Senn, Tobias Baur
  • Patent number: 9175994
    Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer for an ultrasonic flow measuring device, comprising a first housing part having an ultrasonic window and adjoining, rotationally symmetric walls, wherein there adjoins on the walls of the first housing part, coaxially with the walls of the first housing part, a first ring as resonator, which forms an end of the first housing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Pierre Ueberschlag, Michael Bezdek, Andreas Berger
  • Publication number: 20150308875
    Abstract: A thin-film sensor for a thermal flowmeter with at least a first substrate layer made of electrically non-conductive material, a second layer made of electrically conductive material and a cover layer to protect the resistance layer against abrasion, wherein the second layer is designed as two sensor elements, wherein at least a first of the two sensor elements is designed to introduce a heat quantity into a medium, and at least a second of the two sensor elements is designed to determine the ambient temperature, and the thin-film sensor has a gap that isolates the two sensor elements from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Harald Muller, Axel Pfau, Florian Krogmann, Thomas Schonstein
  • Patent number: 9170139
    Abstract: A magneto inductive, flow measuring device comprising a measuring tube and at least one magnet system arranged on the measuring tube. The magnet system has two coil systems, which lie opposite one another on or in the measuring tube, and each coil system includes at least one pole shoe. A first of the two coil systems is connected via at least one flux return, sheet metal length with the second or an additional coil system, and wherein each of the at least two coil systems has at least two coils, which are arranged peripherally distributed relative to the measuring tube on the pole shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Beat Tschudin, Simon Stingelin, Roger Kerrom
  • Patent number: 9170240
    Abstract: An ultrasonic particle measuring system having an ultrasonic transducer with at least one ultrasonic transducer element and at least one coupling element, wherein, during operation, acoustic signals are transmittable and receivable by the ultrasonic transducer element via the coupling element, wherein the coupling element is embodied as an acoustic lens, and the ultrasonic, particle measuring system has an evaluation unit suitable for amplitude analysis of reflection signals of acoustic signals reflected from particles to the ultrasonic transducer, and wherein, with the evaluation unit, amplitudes of reflection signals in a predetermined time interval are countable, which are greater than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Yaoying Lin, Beat Kissling, Wolfgang Drahm, Thomas Frohlich
  • Patent number: 9157779
    Abstract: An ultrasonic, flow measuring device, comprising an ultrasonic transducer in a bore of a measuring tube, which ultrasonic transducer has an ultrasound window, wherein a guide vane is inserted into the bore of the measuring tube in front of the ultrasound window and perpendicular to the ultrasound window of the ultrasonic transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventor: Oliver Berberig
  • Patent number: 9157776
    Abstract: A magneto inductive flow measuring device having a measuring tube and at least one magnet system arranged on the measuring tube, wherein the measuring tube has at least one planar area and an otherwise cylindrical lateral surface, which border the measuring tube from its environment, against which planar area the magnet system is prestressed The magnet system is prestressed against the planar area of the measuring tube by means of a screwed connection between measuring tube and magnet system and/or the magnet system is prestressed against the planar area of the measuring tube by means of a mounting clip, which is secured shape-interlocked to the measuring tube. A method for manufacturing the magneto inductive, flow measuring device is also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Frank Voigt, Gunther Bahr, Diego Uerlings, Werner Wohlgemuth
  • Publication number: 20150268082
    Abstract: The measuring system comprises: a vibration element for guiding flowing medium and having a lumen; and a vibration element, which is adapted to be contacted, at least at times, by a part of the medium. Additionally, the measuring system includes at least two oscillation exciters for exciting resonant oscillations of the respective vibration elements, two mutually spaced oscillation sensors for registering vibrations of the vibration element, each of which generates an oscillatory signal dependent on vibrations of the vibration element, as well as at least one oscillation sensor for registering vibrations of the vibration element and generating, dependent on vibrations of the vibration element, an oscillatory signal, which has a signal frequency corresponding to a resonant frequency, of the vibration element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Michael Kirst, Alfred Rieder
  • Patent number: 9140594
    Abstract: An ultrasonic, flow measuring device, which includes a measuring tube having a straight measuring tube axis, a transmitter for sending an acoustic signal on a first signal path, a receiver for receiving the acoustic signal on the first signal path and at least a first reflection surface, on which the acoustic signal is reflected at least once on the first signal path. The acoustic signal incident on the first reflection surface propagates along a first straight subsection, which has a first separation from the measuring tube axis, wherein the transmitter, the receiver and the first reflection surface are so oriented relative to one another and arranged in or on the measuring tube that the acoustic signal on the first signal path from the first transmitter to the first receiver is so reflected on the at least a first reflection surface that the acoustic signal reflected on the first reflection surface propagates through the measuring tube on the first signal path along a second straight subsection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Achim Wiest, Andreas Berger
  • Patent number: 9134165
    Abstract: A method for detecting accretion or abrasion on a first measuring tube of a flow measuring device. A first temperature as a function of time is registered via a first temperature sensor, which is arranged on the first measuring tube in such a manner that, between the first temperature sensor and the medium, at least one measuring tube wall of the first measuring tube is embodied. Parallel in time, a second reference temperature as a function of time is registered by a second temperature sensor, which is spaced from the first temperature sensor and thermally coupled to the medium. Therefrom, at least one variable characteristic is determined, and accretion or abrasion on the first measuring tube is detected, if the at least one determined characteristic variable or a variable derived therefrom deviates by more than a limit value from a predetermined reference variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Michael Kirst, Alfred Rieder, Wolfgang Drahm, Hao Zhu, Christof Huber, Vivek Kumar
  • Patent number: 9109936
    Abstract: A measuring device electronics comprises a processor and two clock signal generators. One clock signal generator serves for producing a working clock signal, and also for producing a reference clock signal which is dependant on the working clock signal. The other clock signal generator, serves for producing a second reference clock signal, which is independent of the working clock signal. Based on the two independent reference clock signals, a frequency difference, can, to the extent that such is present, be ascertained during operation of the measuring device electronics or of the measuring device formed therewith. The frequency difference, represents a difference between the instantaneous clocking frequency of the first reference clock signal and the instantaneous clocking frequency of the second reference clock signal, and, in this respect, represents a measure for a deviation of an instantaneous clocking frequency, from the nominally predetermined clocking frequency, of the working clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Drahm, Gernot Engstler, Hans Pohl, Christian Matt, Robert Lalla, Matthias Brudermann
  • Patent number: 9109932
    Abstract: A pipeline or measuring tube having at least one insulating layer, at least in certain regions, and comprising, manufactured in a primary shaping method, a tubular element, which has an otherwise closed structure and which has at least one region with an open-pored, cellular structure, wherein the material of the insulating layer, in the applying of the insulating layer, can penetrate into the pores of the open-pored, cellular structure of the tubular element and the insulating layer has on the side to be insulated a closed, homogeneous structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Frank Voigt, Werner Wohlgemuth
  • Publication number: 20150226590
    Abstract: A Coriolis mass flow measuring device comprises a measuring device electronics as well as, connected thereto, a measuring transducer comprising at least one measuring tube, an oscillation exciter for oscillating the at least one measuring tube and, mutually spaced along the measuring tube, two oscillation sensors for generating oscillation signals representing oscillations of the measuring tube. The measuring tube is adapted to be flowed through by a medium and during that to be caused to vibrate in such a manner that the measuring tube executes wanted oscillations having a wanted frequency. The wanted oscillations are suitable to induce in the flowing medium, dependent on its mass flow rate, Coriolis forces suitable for bringing about a measurement effect of a first type, namely Coriolis oscillations of the wanted frequency superimposed on the wanted oscillations. These Coriolis oscillations are, in turn, suitable to induce in the medium centrifugal forces dependent on its mass flow rate and on its density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Christof Huber, Vivek Kumar
  • Patent number: 9097570
    Abstract: A measuring transducer serves for producing vibration signals corresponding to parameters of a flowing medium comprises a measuring transducer housing having housing ends and, extending within the measuring transducer housing between its housing ends, a tube arrangement formed by means of at least two tubes. Of the two tubes, at least one tube serves as a measuring tube conveying flowing medium and the other tube is mechanically connected with the tube by means of a first coupling element to form an inlet-side coupling zone and by means of a second coupling element to form an outlet-side coupling zone. At least the first coupling element has in a region extending between the tubes a slit having at least one closed end. Slit has a maximal slit width and a maximal slit length, which is greater than the maximal slit width. Placed partially within the slit is a connecting element, which contacts a slit edge enclosing said slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Alfred Rieder, Hao Zhu, Ennio Bitto, Gerhard Eckert
  • Patent number: 9097567
    Abstract: An ultrasonic, flow measuring device, including a measuring tube a transmitter a receiver and at least a first reflection surface. An acoustic signal incident on a first reflection surface and an acoustic signal reflected on the first reflection surface travel, in each case, along a straight subsection of the first signal path. The transmitter, the receiver and the first reflection surface are so oriented with respect to one another and arranged in or on the measuring tube that the acoustic signal on the first signal path from the first transmitter to the first receiver is so reflected on the first reflection surface that the sum of all lengths of all subsections as projected on a measuring tube axis, extending in a first plane parallel to the measuring tube axis, and having a predetermined separation other than zero from the measuring tube axis has a predetermined value different from zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Achim Wiest, Andreas Berger, Sascha Grunwald
  • Patent number: 9068868
    Abstract: A magneto-inductive, flow measuring device for measuring flow of a measured medium through a measuring tube, comprising: at least a first coil assembly for accommodating a coil core is arranged in a first passageway. The coil core has a broadened part and a first stop, which is arranged between the measuring tube and the coil. The broadened part of the coil core in the assembled state of the first coil assembly lies against the first stop of the coil body and prevents shifting of the coil core relative to the coil body along the longitudinal axis of the coil core in a first direction facing away from the measuring tube. The coil body has a second stop, wherein the coil core is secured to the coil body with a securement element (which, in the assembled state, lies against the second stop of the coil body under a prestress along the longitudinal axis of the coil core between the first stop and the second stop of the coil body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Frank Voigt, Thomas Zingg, Gunther Bähr, Werner Wohlgemuth, Alexander Crnovic
  • Publication number: 20150160052
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an ultrasonic, flow measuring device, characterized by method steps as follows: selecting a number larger than one of straight subsections of the first signal path, which should have different distances from the measuring tube axis; establishing the distances of the straight subsections from measuring tube axis; calculating values of lengths of the straight subsections, as projected on the measuring tube axis, as a function of the number of straight subsections with the same distance from the measuring tube axis and the respective distances from the measuring tube axis; and inserting the at least a first reflection surface in the measuring tube such that the acoustic signal on the path from the first transmitter to the first receiver is so reflected on at least the first reflection surface that the first signal path comprises the straight subsections with the selected distances and the calculated values of the lengths as projected on the measuring tube axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Endress Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Achim Wiest, Andreas Berger
  • Patent number: 9052224
    Abstract: A measuring transducer comprises: a housing, with an inlet-side flow divider having four flow openings, and an outlet-side end having four flow openings; a tube arrangement having four tubes connected to the flow dividers; and a first coupling element. An exciter mechanism for producing and/or maintaining mechanical oscillations of the four measuring tubes. The first coupling element includes a deformation body and four connecting struts, of which connected with a first strut end and with the first measuring tube, a second connecting strut is connected with a first strut end and with a second strut end with the second measuring tube, a third connecting strut and with a second strut end with the first measuring tube, and a fourth connecting strut is connected with a first strut end and with a second strut end with the fourth measuring tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Alfred Rieder, Christof Huber, Ennio Bitto, Christian Schutze, Marcel Braun