Patents Assigned to Flowtec AG
  • Patent number: 12117322
    Abstract: A magnetic-inductive flowmeter includes: a housing having first and second housing parts connected via a guide element, which is configured to enable a distance between the first and second housing parts to be linearly adjustable; an exchangeable measurement tube for guiding a flowable medium; two measurement electrodes mounted in the measurement tube; a magnetic field-generating device for generating a magnetic field permeating the measurement tube; and at least two connection contacts, each electrically connected to a measurement circuit, wherein the measurement tube is reversibly interlockingly and/or frictionally arranged between the first housing part and the second housing part of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Frank Voigt, Steffen Ziegler
  • Patent number: 12117325
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a measuring device for characterizing a non-homogeneous, flowable medium, and for determining the density, the mass flow rate and/or the viscosity of the medium measuring tube for guiding the medium. includes at least one mode of oscillation, the natural frequency of which depends on the density of the medium An exciter for exciting the mode of oscillation and an operation and evaluation circuit designed to apply an excitation signal to the exciter, to capture signals from the oscillation sensor, to determine current values of the natural frequency of the oscillator and fluctuations of the natural frequency on the basis of the signals from the oscillation sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Yaoying Lin
  • Patent number: 12114449
    Abstract: A housing module includes a housing including a housing wall, a first housing chamber and a second housing chamber separated by a partition wall, wherein: the partition wall has a through-opening for an electrical feedthrough for connecting measurement/operating electronics to interface electronics; the feedthrough satisfying requirements of an Ex-d standard; the feedthrough having an electrically insulating carrier body and a plurality of electrically conductive connecting devices for providing the electrical connection, which connecting devices extend through holes in the carrier body; the holes each having a first dimension along a hole axis and each having an inner diameter; the connecting devices each having an outer diameter; the carrier body being inserted into the through-opening from a side of the partition wall facing the first housing chamber, and forming a flame arrestor according to the Ex-d standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Markus Beissert, Harald Müller, Marc Fiedler
  • Patent number: 12111192
    Abstract: A magnetic-inductive flow meter includes: a measuring tube for conducting a flowable medium, the measuring tube having a wall; at least three measuring electrodes arranged in the wall to form a galvanic contact with the flowing medium; a magnetic field-generating device for generating a magnetic field that passes through the medium; a measuring circuit designed to ascertain at least one first measurement variable, wherein measured values of the first measurement variable are ascertained at a first measuring electrode pair; and an analysis circuit designed to ascertain a Reynolds number and/or a kinematic viscosity value of the medium in the measuring tube using measured values for the first measurement variable and a second measurement variable, which differs from the first measurement variable, the measured values of the second measurement variable being ascertained at a second measuring electrode pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventor: Simon Mariager
  • 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: 12104939
    Abstract: A method for the measurement of a physical parameter of a liquid by means of a sensor having at least one measuring tube for conducting the liquid, wherein the measuring tube can be excited to vibrate in at least one flexural vibration mode, comprises: determining at least one current value of a vibration parameter of the flexural vibration mode; determining a measurement value of the physical parameter according to the current value of the vibration parameter, wherein the measurement value is compensated in respect of the resonator effect according to a current value for the natural frequency of the flexural vibration mode and according to the sound velocity of the liquid conducted in the measuring tube, wherein the value for the sound velocity is provided independently of the vibrations of the measuring tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Martin Josef Anklin, Reinhard Huber, Yaoying Lin
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 12044559
    Abstract: A method for monitoring flow of a medium by means of a pressure difference measuring device and a Coriolis mass flowmeter having two oscillators, which comprise, in each case, a bent measuring tube pair, which are arranged on top of one another and connected for parallel flow between the two pressure measuring points of the pressure difference measuring device, comprising steps as follows: Registering a pressure difference between the first pressure measuring point and the second pressure measuring point; registering a first density measured value based on at least a first oscillation frequency of the first oscillator; registering a second density measured value based on at least a second oscillation frequency of the second oscillator; ascertaining a flow measured value based on the pressure difference, when a difference between the first density measured value and the second density measured value is less than a density difference limit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Josef Hubensteiner
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12025479
    Abstract: The method comprises producing a measurement signal (s1) having a signal parameter, followed with a temporal change (?x1/?t; ?x1?/?t) of a primary measured variable (x1) and a temporal change (?y1/?t) of a disturbing variable (?1), and producing a measurement signal (s2) having a signal parameter, followed by a temporal change (?x2/?t; ?x2?/?t) of a primary measured variable (x2). The method comprises ascertaining measured values (XI) of first type representing the primary measured variable (x1) or a secondary measured variable (f(x1) ?x1?) of measured values (XII) of second type representing the primary measured variable (x2) or a secondary measured variable (f(x2) ?x2?). The method comprises using measured values (XI) of first type and measured values (XII) of second type for ascertaining an error characterizing number (Err) representing a velocity error (?XI/?XII) caused by a change of the disturbing variable (y1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventor: Peter Tschabold
  • Patent number: 12018966
    Abstract: The flow measuring system comprises a measuring transducer having a tube arrangement to convey a flowing fluid, an exciter arrangement for forced mechanical oscillations of the tube arrangement, and a sensor arrangement for registering mechanical oscillations of the tube arrangement. The measuring system further comprises a measuring and operating electronics electrically coupled with the exciter arrangement and the sensor arrangement. The measuring system has two driver circuits and two measurement transmitter circuits. The tube arrangement includes two flow dividers and four connected tubes adapted to be flowed through by the measured substance. The exciter arrangement includes two oscillation exciters, and the sensor arrangement includes four oscillation sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Reinhard Huber, Gerhard Eckert, Marco Oliver Scherrer
  • Patent number: 12013275
    Abstract: A method for determining a viscosity of a medium based on damping of an oscillation mode of a measurement tube comprises exciting oscillations of an oscillation mode; detecting a sequence of provisional damping measurement values for the measurement tube oscillation mode; and calculating target measurement values. The influence of the cross-sensitivity of the damping for the flow rate of the medium is corrected by determining rectified damping measurement values that correspond to damping when the medium is at rest and determining viscosity on the basis of the rectified damping measurement values, or correcting the influence of the cross-sensitivity of the damping for the flow rate of the medium by determining provisional intermediate values of a damping-dependent variable, determining rectified intermediate values that correspond to the intermediate values when the medium is at rest, and determining the target measurement values on the basis of the rectified intermediate values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Alfred Rieder, Vivek Kumar, Mattia Alioli
  • Patent number: D1050176
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Johannes Sprenger, Markus Hoh, Daniel Wagner, Andreas Wiedmer, Kevin Martin