Patents Assigned to Vega Grieshaber KG
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Patent number: 11619536Abstract: A level radar device with adaptive, angle-dependent transmission power adjustment, which calculates the maximum permissible transmission power of the transmitted signal on the basis of the radiation direction of the transmitted signal and the radiation characteristic of an antenna.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventors: Roland Welle, Michael Fischer, Uwe Wegemann, Ralf Reimelt
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Publication number: 20230098780Abstract: A self-sustaining sensor is provided, being configured to detect a fill level, a limit level, or a pressure of a medium or to measure an interface of a mixture of media in a transport container, the sensor including: a closed housing configured to be submerged in the medium; and a sensor element arrangement including one or more sensor elements arranged in or on the housing, in which the sensor is configured to rest on a bottom of the container and/or to float on a separating layer of the mixture of media during measurement, without being fixed to the container. A self-sustaining fill level measurement system, limit level measurement system, or pressure measurement system is also provided. A method for detecting a fill level or a limit level or a pressure of a medium or for interface measurement of a mixture of media in a transport container is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: VEGA Grieshaber KGInventor: Roland WELLE
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Patent number: 11616285Abstract: A measuring device which detects a parameter includes at least one communication device which is arranged for wireless short-range communications with a mobile operating device. The communication device includes one or more two-dimensionally formed coil elements arranged for electromagnetic coupling with at least one coil element of the operating device. At least two regions are provided on a coil element or on different coil elements of the communication device, which have a different normal vector.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventors: Roland Welle, Levin Dieterle, Joerg Boersig, Steffen Waelde, Christian Weinzierle
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Publication number: 20230092883Abstract: A cloud-based measuring point registration system that registers a field device in a cloud-based field device control system. The cloud-based measuring point registration system includes a readout device on which an operating program is installed. The readout device logs into the cloud-based field device control system. Furthermore, the readout device verifies the identification feature of the field device and thereupon adds the field device to the cloud-based field device control system as a new field device and thus registers the field device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventors: Ralf HOELL, Juan GARCIA
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Patent number: 11594799Abstract: A waveguide arrangement for transmitting microwaves, and for measuring a limit level or a filling level, is provided, the waveguide arrangement for transmitting microwaves including a waveguide tube having a rectangular or elliptical inner cavity and an outer wall; and a jacket, an inner wall of which corresponds at least in sections with a shape of the outer wall of the waveguide tube.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: VEGA Grieshaber KGInventors: Klaus Kienzle, Fritz Lenk, Roland Baur
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Publication number: 20230048795Abstract: An electronic device for a level measurement probe for measuring a level of a medium is provided, including: at least one first excitation electronic device configured to emit a first excitation signal; and at least one second excitation electronic device configured to emit a second excitation signal, the first excitation signal and the second excitation signal being different, and the electronic unit being configured to emit the first excitation signal and the second excitation signal simultaneously to the level measurement probe.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventors: Karl GRIESSBAUM, Holger STAIGER, Siegbert WOEHRLE
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Publication number: 20230040598Abstract: A display device for an industrial sensor is provided, including an electronic display configured to display encoded information, the encoded information being information for retrieving device-related information about the sensor. An industrial sensor system, and a method for retrieving device-related information about a sensor of an industrial sensor, are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: VEGA Grieshaber KGInventor: Florian BURGERT
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Publication number: 20230030027Abstract: A field device having an integrated first chip card with a first set of parameters and an interface to a replaceable second chip card. The interface is arranged to receive a second set of parameters from the second chip card. The field device is arranged to establish a connection to a cloud service using the first and/or second set of parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventors: Manfred METZGER, Christian HOFERER, Dominik FEHRENBACH
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Publication number: 20230032016Abstract: A protective device for sealing a sensor device of an intermediate area outside a sensor device attached to a container, a measuring device, a container with a fastening device for fastening a protective device and the use of a protective device for sealing a sensor device of an intermediate area outside a sensor device attached to a container, in particular a level radar sensor arrangement. The protective device comprises a housing and a circumferential seal arranged on a side of the housing intended for abutment against the container or on an outer side of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventors: Roland WELLE, Levin DIETERLE
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Publication number: 20230030683Abstract: A measuring device for process automation in an industrial environment is provided, the measuring device including: a first sensor device configured to detect a process variable; a position detection device configured to detect a position of the measuring device; a second sensor device configured to acquire environmental data; and a controller configured to analyze the acquired environmental data, determine, based on the analysis, whether or not a current position of the measuring device should be detected, and instruct the position detection device to detect the current position of the measuring device when the analysis of the environmental data has determined that the current position should be detected. A method for determining a position of a measuring device is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2019Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventors: Christian HOFERER, Manuel KAUFMANN
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Publication number: 20230025839Abstract: A base sensor for process variable determination in an industrial environment. The base sensor includes first wireless communication circuitry that transmits signals to a first expansion device and/or receives signals from the first expansion device, and a first housing including a first receiving device that receives the first expansion device or a second housing, the first housing completely enclosing the base sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventors: Roland WELLE, Joerg BOERSIG, Steffen WAELDE
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Publication number: 20230024136Abstract: A sensor device for process variable determination in an industrial environment, comprising a sensor base and a first expansion module. The sensor base includes circuitry that determines the process variable, a first mechanical interface for mechanically accommodating a first expansion module and a first communication interface to the first expansion module for transmitting measurement and/or control data. In this case, the first expansion module has a second mechanical interface to the sensor base, a third mechanical interface for mechanically accommodating a second expansion module, a second communication interface to the sensor base for transmitting measurement and/or control data, and a third communication interface to the second expansion module for transmitting measurement and/or control data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: VEGA Grieshaber KGInventors: Karl GRIESSBAUM, Roland WELLE
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Patent number: 11561159Abstract: A radiometric measurement device is provided, including at least one at least partially bent source receiving tube configured to receive a radiation source; and at least one transmission tube configured to provide a guiding path within the transmission tube for at least a portion of radiation emitted by the radiation source, the source receiving tube and the transmission tube being arranged with respect to each other such that at least a portion of the radiation emitted by the radiation source is guidable in a straight line through a material disposable between the radiation source and a distal end of the transmission tube and the guide path, and the source receiving tube and the transmission tube being arranged adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: VEGA Grieshaber KGInventors: Roland Bonath, Matthias Harter, Winfried Rauer, Natalie Waldecker
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Patent number: 11557841Abstract: Described are a dielectric conductor arrangement, a method for producing the conductor arrangement, a level radar and a use of the conductor arrangement. The conductor arrangement has a dielectric conductor core made of a solid. Furthermore, the conductor arrangement has a coating 30 which, at least in sections, surrounds the entire circumference of the conductor core without a gap and which consists of a thin conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventors: Klaus Kienzle, Steffen Waelde
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Patent number: 11553341Abstract: A gateway for assigning an access authorization for a mobile operating device to a field device, including a first interface that wirelessly communicates with the mobile operating device, a second interface that communicates with an authorization assignment device, a memory device that stores an access authorization of the mobile operating device transmitted by the authorization assignment device, authorization assignment circuitry that reads the access authorization of the mobile operating device from the memory device and transmits the access authorization to the mobile operating device via the first interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventors: Juan Garcia, Ralf Hoell
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Patent number: 11549838Abstract: A fill level measuring device for measuring a fill level of a container including a fill level measuring circuit that measures a filling level of a container, at least one transmitter/receiver that communicates with data processing circuitry, at least one fastener that fastens the fill level measuring device to a surface of the container, at least one monitoring circuit that monitors a fastening of the fill level measuring device to the container by the at least one fastener, the monitoring circuit further transmits an alarm message to the data processing circuitry via the transmitter/receiver when the monitoring circuit detects a loosening of the fastening of the fill level measuring device from the container.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventors: Roland Welle, Joerg Boersig, Steffen Waelde
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Patent number: 11543317Abstract: A metallic pressure measuring cell having a base body, a metallic membrane situated and a pressure sensor situated in a sensor chamber of the base body, wherein the pressure on the membrane is transmitted to the pressure sensor by a connecting channel formed between a membrane chamber and a sensor chamber, wherein the chambers and connecting channel are filled with a pressure transmitting medium.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventors: Jochen Huber, Julian Epting
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Patent number: 11536595Abstract: A dual sensor is provided having a first circuit configured for autonomous operation of the sensor and a second circuit configured for non-autonomous operation of the sensor. The dual sensor can be supplied with energy from an external power supply. The first circuit and second circuit can vary in clock frequency, measurement accuracy, and power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: VEGA Grieshaber KGInventor: Clemens Hengstler
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Publication number: 20220390265Abstract: A method of adjusting a quantization accuracy of a fill level radar for detecting a fill level of a container is provided, the method including the steps of: acquiring amplitude values of an echo curve of the fill level radar by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC); determining a first amplitude value of a first echo having a highest amplitude or a highest local amplitude maximum of the echo curve; determining a second amplitude value of a second echo having a lowest local amplitude maximum of the echo curve; setting an adjusted quantization accuracy as a function of a quotient of the first amplitude value and the second amplitude value; and determining the fill level of the container with the adjusted quantization accuracy. A field device including a fill level radar and/or an ultrasonic measuring device configured to perform the method is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: VEGA Grieshaber KGInventors: Roland WELLE, Samuel KLEISER
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Patent number: 11516029Abstract: Described is a process measurement device having an interface for connecting a plug-in memory, in which a processing measurement device includes a memory operating device that can switch the process measurement device into a memory access mode when the memory is connected to the process measurement device. Also described is a power supply that ensures that the energy demand required for read access or write access to the process measurement device is automatically covered after the connection of the memory by increasing the amount of electrical energy that is freely available in the process measurement device. Undesired undersupply of the process measurement device can thereby be effectively avoided.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventors: Roland Welle, Karl Griessbaum, Joerg Boersig, Holger Staiger, Clemens Hengstler, Thomas Oehler, Manuel Harter