Patents by Inventor Aart Jan van Bekkum

Aart Jan van Bekkum has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8528382
    Abstract: A calibration device for mass flow meters including a test piece measuring section into which the mass flow meter test piece to be calibrated can be inserted, a device for creating a flow of a medium through the test piece measuring section and a temperature-measuring device positioned in the test piece measuring section for detecting the temperature of the medium. The temperature-measuring device is position in the flow such that the flow is disturbed as little as possible, while at the same time being capable of highly-accurate detection of the temperature of the flowing medium. In particular, the temperature-measuring device is an ultrasonic temperature-measuring device that is configured to emit an ultrasonic signal into the medium and determine the temperature of the medium by measuring a speed of the emitted ultrasonic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Pieter Cornelis Leendert van Brakel, Aart Jan van Bekkum
  • Publication number: 20110239730
    Abstract: A calibration device for mass flow meters including a test piece measuring section into which the mass flow meter test piece to be calibrated can be inserted, a device for creating a flow of a medium through the test piece measuring section and a temperature-measuring device positioned in the test piece measuring section for detecting the temperature of the medium. The temperature-measuring device is position in the flow such that the flow is disturbed as little as possible, while at the same time being capable of highly-accurate detection of the temperature of the flowing medium. In particular, the temperature-measuring device is an ultrasonic temperature-measuring device that is configured to emit an ultrasonic signal into the medium and determine the temperature of the medium by measuring a speed of the emitted ultrasonic signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: KROHNE AG
    Inventors: Pieter Cornelis Leendert van Brakel, Aart Jan van Bekkum
  • Patent number: 7992439
    Abstract: An ultrasonic probe head, in particular for an ultrasonic flow meter having a housing and an ultrasonic transducer in the housing, wherein ultrasonic signals can be created and/or detected by the ultrasonic transducer and the ultrasonic signals from the ultrasonic transducer can be emitted and/or received via an ultrasonic window. A thin, relatively flexible solid interface layer is provided between the ultrasonic transducer and the ultrasonic window, the surface of the ultrasonic window having contact with the solid interface layer has a specified roughness and the ultrasonic transducer is impacted with a force, wherein the material of the solid interface layer and the ultrasonic window, the specified roughness of the surface of the ultrasonic window and the force are attuned to one another so that the solid interface layer nestles into the ultrasonic window of the housing at least also by plastic deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Aart Jan van Bekkum, Jeoren Martin van Klooster
  • Publication number: 20090071252
    Abstract: An ultrasonic probe head, in particular for an ultrasonic flow meter having a housing and an ultrasonic transducer in the housing, wherein ultrasonic signals can be created and/or detected by the ultrasonic transducer and the ultrasonic signals from the ultrasonic transducer can be emitted and/or received via an ultrasonic window. A thin, relatively flexible solid interface layer is provided between the ultrasonic transducer and the ultrasonic window, the surface of the ultrasonic window having contact with the solid interface layer has a specified roughness and the ultrasonic transducer is impacted with a force, wherein the material of the solid interface layer and the ultrasonic window, the specified roughness of the surface of the ultrasonic window and the force are attuned to one another so that the solid interface layer nestles into the ultrasonic window of the housing at least also by plastic deformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Aart Jan van Bekkum, Jeoren Martin Van Klooster
  • Patent number: 5852362
    Abstract: A device and a method for its manufacture, for magnetic-inductive measurement of the quantity of mixture flowing through a pipeline into which the device has been incorporated. The device includes a housing having a measuring tube with an electrically insulating lining therein. The lining substantially consists of wear-resistant, insulating ceramic material in the form of tiles applied on a layer of plastic material having a thickness between 3 and 10 mm. The joints between the tiles are filled with plastic material. The housing contains magnetic coils. A pair of electrodes are mounted in the measuring tube and extend through the wall of the measuring tube and are insulated in relation to it. Within the housing, the electrodes are connected to lines leading to measuring members for measuring the voltage difference generated in the flowing medium by the magnetic field of the magnetic coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: FHC Systems B.V. and Krohne Altometer
    Inventors: Arie Cornelis Batenburg, Aart Jan Van Bekkum, Cornelis Hendrik Van Den Berg, Alexander Marnix Heijnsdijk, Casparus Henricus Marius Kramers, Teunis Visser, Antonie Cornelis Van Zutphen
  • Patent number: 5719340
    Abstract: A process for determining the phase portion of a medium in open and closed pipes, especially for use in connection with a process for determining the volume flow, with the help of at least three condenser plates extending basically over the entire height of the pipe and with the help of a control and evaluation circuit, in which at least one of the condenser plates has an alternating voltage applied to it by the control and evaluation circuit and the current flowing between the condenser plate with the voltage appled to it and at least one other condenser plate is recorded by the control and evaluation circuit. The process is designed so that the current between at least two condenser plates is recorded by the control and evaluation circuit from two different groups of condenser plates separated by the vertical line of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Boudewijn Jozef Poortmann, Heerke Nijboer, Aart Jan van Bekkum