Patents Assigned to Flowtec AG
  • Patent number: 11003169
    Abstract: The invention relates to a field device of measuring and automation technology. The field device has a radio module for providing access to an operating electronics of the field device. Such access enables the exchange of information between the operating electronics and a user. The radio module can be turned on by a first input signal sequence composed of accelerations of the field device housing and can be turned off by a second input signal sequence. A field device of the invention is shown schematically in FIG. 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Steffen Weiss, Beat Tschudin, Bruno Worreth, Thomas Bier, Christian Matt
  • Patent number: 11002580
    Abstract: A method for ascertaining a physical parameter of a liquid containing gas in the form of suspended bubbles by means of a measuring transducer with an excitable measuring tube serving for guiding the liquid in bending oscillation modes of various eigenfrequencies, includes steps as follows: ascertaining the eigenfrequencies of the f1-mode and the f3-mode; ascertaining preliminary density values for the gas-containing liquid guided in the measuring tube based on the eigenfrequencies of the f1-mode and the f3-mode; ascertaining a value for the velocity of sound of the gas-containing liquid guided in the measuring tube, and/or ascertaining, as a function of the velocity of sound and the eigenfrequency of a mode, at least one correction term and/or density error for the preliminary density value, which was ascertained based on the eigenfrequency of the mode, for determining a corrected density measured value; and/or a correction term for a preliminary mass flow value for determining a corrected mass flow measured
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder
  • Patent number: 10996088
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a magneto inductive flow measuring device and to a magneto inductive flow measuring device, wherein at least one magnet system having at least one coil produces a periodically polarity changing magnetic field extending essentially perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the measuring tube for inducing a flow dependent voltage in the medium, wherein in a measuring phase for registering at least one voltage value for ascertaining flow velocity or volume flow an essentially constant magnetic field is produced, which is reverse poled in a polarity reversal phase, wherein energy supply during the polarity reversal phase occurs completely from a capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Andre Spahlinger, Martin Binzer, Timo Kretzler
  • Patent number: 10989577
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrasonic transducer comprising an acoustic transformer, wherein the acoustic transformer has a transformer body having a hollow space, and there lies between the hollow space and the medium a membrane, whose center oscillates freely. Furthermore, the invention relates to methods for manufacturing such an acoustic transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Michal Bezdek, Pierre Ueberschlag, Andreas Berger, Frank Wandeler
  • Patent number: 10989581
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sensor of a thermal, flow measuring device. The sensor includes a sensor cup having at least one protrusion on the floor of the cup that assures a constant spacing of a sensor element from the cup floor so that a good temperature transfer between the sensor element and a medium flowing around the sensor is assured. Also disclosed is a thermal, flow measuring device employing such a sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Stephan Gaberthüel, Alexander Grün, Hanno Schultheis, Tobias Baur
  • Patent number: 10989766
    Abstract: A test system for checking electrical connections, especially solder connections, between electronic components with a circuit board to be checked, characterized in that the test system includes a communication interface with at least three electrically-conductive contact tips, which by contact with a contacting arrangement on the circuit board having a number of contacting locations enable a data exchange with a data memory and/or a communication module of a circuit board, wherein the data exchange occurs according to a communication protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Thomas Böhler, Matthias Brudermann, Christoph Werle, Markus Wucher, Daniel Kollmer, Ludovic Adam
  • Patent number: 10989570
    Abstract: A connection apparatus comprises: a connecting nozzle having a lumen surrounded by a nozzle wall; as well as a tubular cable duct with a lumen surrounded by a duct wall and extending from a duct end to a duct end remote therefrom for guiding electrical connecting lines. The nozzle wall, or the connecting nozzle formed therewith, has an opening and an opening remote therefrom. The cable duct and the connecting nozzle are additionally so arranged that the cable duct is partially located in the lumen of the connecting nozzle and partially accommodated both by the opening of the nozzle wall as well as also the opening of the nozzle wall, and that a cavity is formed between an inner surface of the nozzle wall facing the lumen and an outer surface of the duct wall facing the lumen. Moreover, the cable duct and the connecting nozzle are so connected together that the cavity is closed gas tightly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Andreas Gunzenhauser
  • Patent number: 10976188
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a probe of a thermal, flow measuring device for measuring mass flow of a liquid in a measuring tube, wherein the method includes: introducing a probe core including a hard solder and a core element into a first probe sleeve, wherein the first probe sleeve has an open first end and a closed second end away from the first end; melting the hard solder; affixing the core element by cooling the hard solder to a temperature less than the solidification temperature; and applying a thermoelement to a contact area of the core element or of the solidified hard solder. The present disclosure relates, furthermore, to a probe resulting from the manufacturing process as well as to a flow measuring device having at least one probe of the-present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Stephan Gaberthüel, Alexander Grün, Hanno Schultheis, Tobias Baur, Martin Barth, Anastasios Badarlis, Lars Neyerlin, Martin Arnold, Oliver Popp
  • Patent number: 10955492
    Abstract: A test system for testing electric connections, in particular soldered connections, between electronic components and a printed circuit board to be tested, characterized in that the test system includes a subassembly, which is movably mounted in a housing of the test system, and a current and/or voltage source for energizing the circuit board to be tested, the current and/or voltage source being arranged in the housing of the test system in such a way as to be movable in at least two directions in space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Thomas Böhler, Matthias Brudermann, Christoph Werle, Markus Wucher, Daniel Kollmer, Ludovic Adam
  • Publication number: 20210080303
    Abstract: A clamp-on ultrasonic flowmeter includes a measuring tube, a pair of ultrasonic contact transducers, and an electronic measuring/operating circuit for operating the transducers. Each transducer includes a transducer element for generating and detecting ultrasonic signals and a coupling element. The transducer element is located on one side of the coupling element facing away from the measuring tube, and is designed to be acoustically coupled to the measuring tube via another side of the coupling element facing the measuring tube, and designed to transmit ultrasonic signals between the transducer element and measuring tube. The ultrasonic flowmeter comprises an adjusting device for at least one transducer for adjusting the transducer. The adjusting device is arranged and configured to modify at least one angle of the signal path with respect to the coupling face or a signal path length, wherein the adjusting device has at least two degrees of freedom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Achim WIEST, Oliver BRUMBERG, Andreas BERGER
  • Patent number: 10948321
    Abstract: The sensor assembly comprises: a bowl shaped, namely at least sectionally dished, membrane, with a curved surface and an oppositely lying surface; and a sensor blade extending from curved surface of the membrane. The membrane is so formed that at least one region of the curved surface adjoining the sensor blade is convex. A sensor formed by means of such a sensor assembly and by means of a transducer element coupled therewith and serving for generating a sensor signal representing movements of the sensor blade changing as a function of time and/or deformations of the membrane changing as a function of time, or a measuring system formed by means of the sensor and a measuring electronics connected thereto, can be used for registering pressure fluctuations in a flowing fluid, such as, for instance, a 400 C hot steam, for instance, in order to measure a flow parameter of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Christian Lais, Andreas Strub, Dominique Wiederkehr
  • Patent number: 10948322
    Abstract: In a sensor assembly, a deformation body has two oppositely lying surfaces, an outer edge segment and a sensor blade extending from a surface outward. A protective apparatus protects the deformation body from pressure surges or abrupt changes of temperature on its surface. The protective apparatus includes at least one plate, extending radially inwardly so that a cavity is formed, which accommodates a region of the sensor blade adjoining the deformation body and remote from the distal end of the sensor blade, forming a gap between the plate and sensor blade. A sensor formed by the sensor assembly and a transducer element coupled therewith can be used for registering pressure fluctuations in a flowing fluid, such as steam having a temperature of 400 C and/or, a pressure of greater than 140 bar in order to measure flow parameters of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Christian Lais, Andreas Strub, Dominique Wiederkehr
  • Patent number: 10944413
    Abstract: Disclosed is a field device of automation technology, comprising: a housing having a wall; a data transmission means arranged on an outside of the housing wall; and an electronic operating circuit arranged in a housing chamber and is adapted to operate the data transmission means, wherein the data transmission means and the electronic operating circuit are connected via an electrical signal line having a plurality of electrical conductors, wherein a first electrical conductor is adapted to lead a data signal and wherein at least a second electrical conductor is adapted to shield the first electrical conductor, wherein the signal line has an isolation device adapted to isolate a first signal line section galvanically from a second signal line section, wherein the isolation device includes an electromagnetically transparent plate having a first lateral surface and a second lateral surface parallel to the first lateral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Lukas Tanner, Daniel Kollmer, Werner Tanner, Marita Paetzold, Lüder Bosse
  • Patent number: 10942058
    Abstract: The measuring system comprises a transducer apparatus with two tubes, each having a lumen surrounded by a wall. A fluid flows through each tube, while the tube is vibrated. An electromechanical-exciter mechanism maintains mechanical oscillations of each of the tubes, and a sensor arrangement registers mechanical oscillations of at least one of the tubes. The transducer apparatus includes two temperature sensors, each being mechanically and thermally conductively coupled with a wall of a respective one of the tubes and adapted to register a measuring point temperature and to convert such into a temperature measurement signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Alfred Rieder, Gerhard Eckert, Ennio Bitto, Hao Zhu
  • Patent number: 10937406
    Abstract: Ultrasonic transducer (1) comprising a coupling element (3) and a piezo element (2), wherein a metal disk (4) is arranged between the coupling element (3) and the piezo element (2), wherein the metal disk (4) is connected with the piezo element (2) or with the coupling element (3) by means of an adhesive layer (5 or 6), characterized in that the adhesive layer (5 or 6) is producible, at least in certain regions, by means of a photochemically curable adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: ENDRESS+HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Achim Wiest, Andreas Berger
  • Patent number: 10928233
    Abstract: A measuring system comprises a measuring and operation electronic unit (ME) and a transducer device electrically coupled thereto. The transducer device has two tubes through which a fluid flows and causes to vibrate, a vibration exciter, two vibration sensors on the inlet and outlet sides, respectively, for generating vibration signals, and an inlet-side temperature sensor coupled to a wall of the tube for thermal conduction and an outlet-side temperature sensor coupled to a wall of the tube for generating temperature measurement signals. The measuring and operation electronic unit feeds electrical power into the vibration exciter in order to effect mechanical vibrations of the tube. Furthermore, the ME generates a mass flow sequence, by means of each of the vibration signals and each of the temperature measurement signals in such a way that mass flow measurement values are independent of the temperature difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Christof Huber, Alfred Rieder
  • Patent number: 10914791
    Abstract: A test system for testing electrical connections, especially soldered connections, between electronic components and a circuit board to be tested, characterized in that the test system has a communication interface, which by contacting the circuit board enables a data exchange with a data memory or a communication module of the circuit board to be tested, wherein the communication interface is arranged within a housing of the test system freely movably in at least two spatial directions, preferably three spatial directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Thomas Böhler, Matthias Brudermann, Christoph Werle, Markus Wucher, Daniel Kollmer, Ludovic Adam
  • Patent number: 10895479
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an ultrasonic flowmeter including: a measuring tube with a measuring tube wall and at least one pair of housings extending to an outer side of the measuring tube wall; a pair of ultrasonic transducers, each with a transducing element for generating and/or sensing ultrasonic pulses and a transducer body, wherein each of the housings is arranged to house one of the transducers, and wherein the housings have an inner first diameter; wherein transducer body includes a circumferential surface, and wherein the transducer body includes an end face, wherein the end face has a second diameter, and wherein the transducer includes at least one first protrusion protruding from the circumferential surface into a gap between the transducer body and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Panagiotis Papathanasiou, Michal Bezdek, Vivek Kumar, Oliver Berberig
  • Patent number: 10884052
    Abstract: Disclosed is a test system for testing electric connections, in particular soldered connections, between electronic components and a printed circuit board to be tested, characterized in that the test system includes a subassembly, which is movably mounted in a housing of the test system, and a current and/or voltage source for energizing the circuit board to be tested, the current and/or voltage source being arranged in the housing of the test system in such a way as to be movable in at least two directions in space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Thomas Böhler, Matthias Brudermann, Christoph Werle, Markus Wucher, Daniel Kollmer, Ludovic Adam
  • Patent number: 10866129
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vibration-type sensor for measuring the density and/or the mass flow rate of a medium, having at least one first oscillator, the sensor including: a curved first measuring tube; a curved second measuring tube; at least one first elastic vibration coupler that couples the first measuring tube and the second measuring tube to each; and at least one exciter for exciting oscillator vibrations in a bending vibration mode. The oscillator has a first oscillator resonant frequency for when the measuring tubes vibrate approximately in phase in the bending vibration mode and a greater second oscillator resonant frequency for when the measuring tubes vibrate approximately in counterphase in the bending vibration mode. The first and second measuring tubes have resonant frequencies differing from their arithmetic mean by no more than 8%, no more than 4%, no more than 2% or no more than 1%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Ennio Bitto, Gerhard Eckert