Patents Assigned to Endress + Hauser
  • Patent number: 12104935
    Abstract: A magnetic-inductive flow meter includes: a measuring tube for guiding a flowable medium in a longitudinal direction; a measuring electrode arrangement for detecting a measurement voltage dependent on the flow velocity, induced in the medium, two measuring electrode groups opposite one another on the measuring tube; and a magnetic field generating device for generating a magnetic field which passes through the measuring tube and including at least two coil core groups, each having at least two coil cores, wherein a first and a second part of the measuring tube each include at least one coil core group, wherein two radii, which intersect the coil cores of a coil core group that lie externally in a cross-sectional plane of the measuring tube, enclose a centre angle ? by which 80°???105°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Oliver Graf, Raphael Hess, Simon Triebenbacher
  • Patent number: 12104940
    Abstract: A vibronic measurement sensor includes two measuring tubes for conveying the medium and two temperature sensors, each arranged on a surface portion of the measuring tubes, respectively, wherein: centroids of the two surface portions relative to an intersection line between a longitudinal plane of symmetry and the transverse plane of symmetry of the sensor are rotationally symmetrical to one another; the first centroid lies in a first section plane running perpendicular to a measuring tube center line of the first measuring tube, wherein an intersection point of the measuring tube center line with the first intersection plane is defined; and the first centroid is arranged relative to the intersection point of the measuring tube center line such that a measurement accuracy of the sensor is largely independent of the installation position, even when inhomogeneous temperature distributions are formed over measuring tube cross-sections at low Reynolds numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Alfred Rieder, Vivek Kumar, Josef Hubensteiner, Mattia Alioli
  • Patent number: 12098944
    Abstract: An arrangement includes a pipeline and a Coriolis volumetric flow meter for measuring a mass flow rate of a medium flowing through the pipeline. A first pressure sensor is attached at an inlet-side of the pipeline and a second pressure sensor is attached at an outlet-side of the pipeline, or wherein a differential pressure sensor is configured to detect a difference between an inlet-side and an outlet-side. The pressure sensors and/or the differential pressure sensor are configured to measure a media pressure and to determine, for each differential pressure, a volumetric flow velocity of the medium through the pipeline. A first monitoring sensor is attached at an inlet-side portion of the pipeline and a second monitoring sensor is attached at an outlet-side portion of the pipeline, wherein the monitoring sensors are configured to monitor a measurement variable different from the media pressure to identify a static media state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Alfred Rieder, Hao Zhu, Wolfgang Drahm, Andreas Güttler
  • Patent number: 12098939
    Abstract: A measuring tube arrangement of a measuring device for detecting a mass flow rate of a flowable medium includes: two measuring tubes for conducting the medium, wherein the measuring tubes each have an inlet and an outlet, wherein the measuring tubes are bent at least once between the inlet and outlet; a coupler arrangement for mechanically coupling the two measuring tubes, wherein the coupler arrangement has at least two coupler elements, wherein one coupler element is arranged at the inlet, and one coupler element is arranged at the outlet; two magnet arrangements, each having at least two magnets, arranged on the measuring tubes, wherein precisely one magnet arrangement is arranged on one measuring tube; and a connecting body configured to mechanically detachably connect the measuring tube arrangement to a carrier unit, wherein the connecting body is connected to the inlet and to the outlet of the respective measuring tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Hao Zhu, Martin Josef Anklin, Wolfgang Drahm
  • Patent number: 12092502
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining and/or monitoring a process variable, for example, temperature, flow or flow velocity, of a medium in a containment includes a temperature sensor for registering temperature securable to an outer surface of the wall of the containment, at least one connection line for electrical contacting of the temperature sensor, and securement means for a releasable securing of the temperature sensor and a temperature sensor-near section of the connection line to the outer surface of the wall of the containment. According to the present disclosure, at least the section of the connection line is securable to the outer surface of the wall of the containment such that the section extends parallel with the wall of the and is in thermal contact with the wall of the containment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Wetzer GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Daniel Koch, Marc Schalles, Harald Bründl, Stephan Wiedemann, Peter Wiedemann, Torsten Iselt, Christian Peuker, Pavo Vrdoljak, Christian Kallweit, Georg Wolf, Markus Mornhinweg, Alfred Umkehrer
  • Patent number: 12092507
    Abstract: A method for monitoring condition of a vibronic sensor for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable of a medium in a containment and having at least one sensor unit having a mechanically oscillatable unit includes: exciting the mechanically oscillatable unit by means of an excitation signal such that mechanical oscillations are executed, and receiving the mechanical oscillations in the form of a received signal, determining a measured value for amplitude and a measured value for frequency of the received signal, comparing the measured values for amplitude and frequency with reference values for amplitude and frequency, and ascertaining a condition indicator from the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG
    Inventors: Kaj Uppenkamp, Christian Strittmatter, Armin Wernet, Sascha D'Angelico
  • Patent number: 12085438
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes an interface sensor for a sedimentation plant, the interface sensor including: a sound emitter configured for generating at least one first acoustic signal with a first frequency and for generating a second acoustic signal with a second frequency different from the first frequency; a sound detector configured for detecting at least one first signal response of the first acoustic signal and a second signal response of the second acoustic signal; and a control unit, wherein the control unit is connected to the sound emitter and the sound detector and is configured to evaluate the first signal response and the second signal response, to determine a floor distance, a sediment distance, a sediment thickness and a water level distance based on the first signal response and the second signal response, and to determine a water level based on the floor distance and the water level distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Benjamin Gross, Judith Raupp, Benjamin Bertsch
  • Patent number: 12085436
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable of a medium, comprising a sensor unit for registering a value for the process variable, a time registration unit for registering at least one duration of operation and a calculating unit, which is embodied at least based on the duration of operation registered by the time registration unit and based on at least one influencing variable influencing the duration of operation to make at least one statement with reference to condition of at least one component of the apparatus. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for operating an apparatus of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Wetzer GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Jögel, Michael Schnalke, Björn Walser, Kajetan Schneider, Fabian Schmölz
  • Patent number: 12085466
    Abstract: A pressure gauge for measuring a pressure includes: a pressure measuring cell; a rotationally symmetric sensor bushing configured to accept the pressure measuring cell; a rotationally symmetrical process connection for releasably attaching the pressure gauge to a measuring point; a process seal to prevent the process medium entering the pressure gauge; the process connection and/or the sensor bushing having multiple individual recesses configured such that the individual recesses together form a fluidic path group of multiple fluidic individual paths extending parallel to one another, by means of which, in the event that the process seal fails, the process medium is conducted from a sealing plane for the process seal to at least one opening visible from the outside when the pressure gauge is in an installed state, the individual recesses configured such that a total cross-sectional area of the recesses forming the path group has a predefined minimal cross-sectional area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Hügel
  • Patent number: 12085429
    Abstract: A magnetic-inductive flow meter includes: a housing; a first and a second measurement electrode in galvanic contact with a flowing medium in a pipe; a magnetic field-generating device positioned in the housing and including a measurement circuit configured to determine a first measurement variable, and wherein measurement values of the first measurement variable are measured between two measurement electrodes or at a measurement electrode in relation to a reference potential; and an evaluation circuit configured to determine a Reynolds number and/or a kinematic viscosity value of the medium using measurement values of the first measurement variable and of a second measurement variable, which differs from the first measurement variable, wherein the measurement electrodes are positioned such that, during a test measurement, quotients of current measurement values of the first and of the second measurement variable correspond bijectively with the Reynolds number of the medium in the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Beat Tschudin, Simon Mariager
  • Patent number: 12078609
    Abstract: A system for measuring a variable of a liquid and a method operation the system is disclosed. The system comprises: a sensor located on an end section of an elongated sensor support and embodied to measure the variable; a containment device that is open at the top; the containment device including: a bottom section given by a liquid impermeable retainment basin, a top section having a side wall surrounding an interior of the top section and apertures extending through the side wall of the top section; and fasteners embodied to at a measurement site mount the sensor support in a fixed sensor support position in relation to a fixed device position of the containment device such that the sensor is located inside the retainment basin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Inc.
    Inventor: Fred Kohlmann
  • Patent number: 12072248
    Abstract: A device for determining the temperature of a medium includes a temperature sensor with a resistance element placed in electrical contact using first and second connection lines, wherein the first connection line is divided into a first section and a second section. The first section faces the sensor element and is composed of a first material, and the second section faces away from the sensor element and is composed of a second material which differs from the first material. The second connection line is composed of the second material. The first section of the first connection line and at least one part of the second connection line form a first difference temperature sensor in the form of a thermocouple. The first and second connection lines are attached to the resistance element so that the first difference temperature sensor detects a temperature gradient at the location of the temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Wetzer GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Marc Schalles, Pavo Vrdoljak
  • Patent number: 12072292
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optochemical sensor element, comprising: a substrate layer having a first substrate side facing toward a measuring medium and a second substrate side opposite the first substrate side; a functional layer arranged on the first substrate side and is subdivided into functional segments separate from one another, wherein a first functional segment has a second reference dye and a second functional segment has an indicator dye, wherein the second reference dye comprises an organic material and is insensitive to oxygen, and is suitable to emit a second luminescence signal upon stimulation with a first stimulation signal, wherein the indicator dye comprises an organic material and is sensitive to oxygen, and is suitable to emit a third luminescence signal upon stimulation with the first stimulation signal, wherein the substrate layer is transparent to the stimulation signal and to the second and third luminescence signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Löbbert
  • Patent number: 12061127
    Abstract: A method for producing a differential pressure sensor includes: a) Providing a sensor assembly; b) Providing a main body with a substantially rotationally symmetrical cavity for receiving the sensor assembly; c) Introducing the sensor assembly into the cavity of the main body; d) Welding the sensor assembly into the cavity of the main body by means of a resistance pulse welding method; e) Introducing, for example, by pressing in, a welding ring between the sensor assembly and the cavity of the main body in an opening region of the cavity; and f) Axial laser welding in the opening region of the cavity such that the main body is welded circumferentially to the sensor assembly by means of the welding ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG
    Inventors: Raimund Becher, Patrick Doria
  • Patent number: 12061105
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a flow measuring point for media having at least one liquid phase, the flow measuring point including: a Coriolis measuring device for measuring the mass flow rate and the density of a medium flowing through a pipeline; and a pressure-difference measuring apparatus for sensing the pressure difference between a flow region arranged upstream of the Coriolis measuring device and a flow region arranged downstream of the Coriolis measuring device, wherein a flow measurement based on measured values of the pressure difference is corrected by means of measured values acquired using the Coriolis measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventor: Hao Zhu
  • Patent number: 12055428
    Abstract: The measuring-device system comprises two measuring devices and an evaluating- and supply electronics. Each of the measuring devices has a measured variable transducer and a measurement transmitter. Each of the transducers is adapted to react to a measured variable and to provide a corresponding transducer signal. The first measurement transmitter includes an interface circuit both for wired energy supply and for wired signal transmission on a two-wire loop. The second measurement transmitter includes an interface circuit for wired energy supply and a radio unit. The evaluating- and supply electronics feeds electrical power into the two-wire loop during operation. Both measurement transmitters are adapted to draw electrical power from the electrical current loop. Additionally, the first measurement transmitter is adapted to transmit its measurement signal via the electrical current loop to the evaluating- and supply electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventor: Michael Kirst
  • Patent number: 12055422
    Abstract: A magnetically inductive flow measuring probe includes a housing; at least one measuring electrode for forming a galvanic contact with the medium and for tapping an induced voltage in the medium; a device for generating a magnetic field, wherein the device is arranged in the housing, wherein the device comprises a field guide assembly and a coil arrangement, wherein the field guide assembly functions as a sensor electrode for capacitively determining and/or monitoring a fill level of the medium in the tube line or the measuring tube. The present disclosure also relates to a method for determining a fill level of a medium in a measuring tube or in a tube line using the magnetically inductive flow measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Beat Tschudin, Thomas Bier
  • Patent number: 12055423
    Abstract: A method for ascertaining a physical parameter of a liquid, which has a gas charge using a measuring transducer having a measuring tube for conveying the medium. The measuring tube executes oscillations in bending oscillation mode. The method includes: exciting the measuring tube with an eigenfrequency of a bending oscillation mode—or f1-mode, ascertaining a suppressed excitation frequency, at which the oscillation amplitude of the measuring tube is minimum; identifying the frequency as the resonant frequency of the gas-charged liquid; ascertaining a density correction term as a function of the resonant frequency for correcting a preliminary density measured value and/or mass flow correction term as a function of the resonant frequency for correcting a preliminary mass flow rate measured value, and/or ascertaining the velocity of sound in the gas-charged liquid in the measuring tube as a function of the resonant frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Wolfgang Drahm, Alfred Rieder
  • Patent number: 12050145
    Abstract: A relative-pressure sensor for determining a pressure of a medium in relation to an atmospheric pressure includes a housing; a measuring element arranged in the housing, wherein the pressure to be measured acts upon an outer surface of the measuring element in contact with the medium; a reference-pressure supply, which supplies an inner surface of the measuring element with atmospheric pressure in the form of ambient air, an evaluation unit, which determines the pressure of the medium from a variable determined using the measuring element; and at least one drying chamber arranged in the housing for taking up atmospheric humidity from the ambient air supplied through the reference-pressure supply. A bushing can be pressed into the housing and has a capillary-type groove, which is helical at least in sections and runs around the bushing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: ENDRESS+HAUSER SE+CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Hügel, Nils Ponath, Armin Rupp, Frank Volz
  • Patent number: 12045191
    Abstract: An electronic unit comprises a microcontroller with a control input, a control output, and a signal input; and an interface circuit with a connection terminal, a control output, a control input, and a signal output. Both the microcontroller and the interface circuit each have a first operating mode and a second operating mode. The microcontroller is designed to cause the interface circuit to operate in its first operating mode. The interface circuit is designed to convert an input signal into a derivation signal representing a derivation of the input signal over time and to generate a control signal from the derivation signal. The microcontroller is designed to cause the interface circuit to operate in its second operating mode and to receive and convert a digital input signal and to output an output signal to the microcontroller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Dominik Voglgsang, André Schaubhut, Christian Knapp, Thomas Küng