Patents by Inventor Claude Hollinger
Claude Hollinger 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).
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Patent number: 11953359Abstract: The invention relates to a coil apparatus of an oscillation sensor or exciter of a measuring transducer or a measuring device for measuring a density or mass flow of a medium flowing through a measuring tube of the measuring transducer or measuring device, comprising: a circuit board having a circuit board layer, at least one coil registering or producing a time varying magnetic field, wherein the coil has a winding region and a central region lacking turns of a winding, wherein the central region of a coil has a rectangular shape with oppositely lying, first sides and with oppositely lying, second sides, wherein the first sides have a first side length, and wherein the second sides have a second side length, wherein the electrically conductive trace has a trace breadth of at least 30 micrometer, wherein a ratio of first side length to second side length is greater than 3.25.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Severin Ramseyer, Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger, Martin Stucki
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Patent number: 11933806Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a measuring transducer of a measurement device for registering a mass flow or a density of a medium The measuring transducer includes a measuring tube, at least one exciter adapted to excite the measuring tube to execute oscillations, and two sensors adapted to register deflection of oscillations of the measuring tube. The exciter and the sensors each have a coil device including a circuit board with a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The coil device of the sensors or exciter are/is secured using a holder apparatus adapted to clamp the circuit board, wherein the circuit board is mechanically contacted by the holder apparatus using at least one holder element, wherein the holder element has a second coefficient of thermal expansion, wherein the first coefficient of thermal expansion and the second coefficient of thermal expansion differ from one another by less than 3*10?6/Kelvin.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger, Martin Stucki
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Patent number: 11906339Abstract: The invention relates to a Coriolis measuring transducer of a Coriolis measuring device comprising: at least one measuring tube; at least one exciter; at least two sensors; wherein at least one exciter or at least one sensor has a coil device and a magnet device, wherein the magnet device has a holder and at least a first magnet group and at least a second magnet group, wherein the holder has a body with a body length axis and a first end and a second end wherein the first end has an end surface, wherein the body has three recesses, wherein a central recess is separated, in each case, from an outer recess by, in each case, an intermediate wall, wherein each intermediate wall has an opening, and wherein the first magnet group is arranged in a first opening, and wherein the second magnet group is arranged in a second opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger, Gebhard Gschwend
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Publication number: 20240027249Abstract: A sensor includes an oscillator having a measuring tube for a medium, an exciter array having two exciter assemblies, an inlet-side and an outlet-side sensor array, and a measuring and operating circuit for driving the exciter array and detecting the sensor arrays. A first of the exciter assemblies is secured to a measuring tube, and the measuring tube is intended to be excited to vibrate in relation to a second of the exciter assemblies. A center of gravity of the first exciter assembly lies in a measuring tube transverse plane in relation to which the measuring tube runs mirror-symmetrically. The exciter array comprises an electrodynamic exciter and a compensating mass, where the electrodynamic exciter is designed to exert an exciter force, which acts between the first and the second exciter assembly, on the measuring tube. The effective center of the exciter force is located outside the measuring tube transverse plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Hao Zhu, Claude Hollinger
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Publication number: 20230411056Abstract: The coil comprises a coil carrier, a coil wire at least partially surrounded by an insulating layer and wound around the coil carrier, as well as a protective cover layer at least partially covering the coil wire wound around the coil carrier. The coil wire is composed, at least partially, of silver, the insulating layer surrounding the coil wire is composed, at least partially, of a ceramic material, and the protective cover layer is composed, at least partially, of a ceramic material and/or a glass.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Claude Hollinger, Marc Werner, Martin Stucki
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Patent number: 11835375Abstract: Disclosed is a measuring sensor of a measuring device for detecting a mass flow rate. The measuring sensor comprises a measuring tube, a vibration exciter, and at least two vibration sensors. The vibration exciter and the vibration sensors each have a coil apparatus having at least one coil and at least one magnetic apparatus. The coil apparatus comprises a printed circuit board having at least one printed circuit board layer, wherein the coil is formed by means of an electrically conductive conductor track, wherein the coil is arranged on the first side and/or second side of a printed circuit board layer, wherein the printed circuit board comprises at least two contact-making elements for connecting the coil to an electronic measuring and/or operating circuit of the measuring device by means of connection elements, and is characterized in that at least one contact-making element has a hole.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Martin Stucki, Claude Hollinger, Marc Werner
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Patent number: 11796364Abstract: The invention relates to a Coriolis measuring sensor for detecting a mass flow rate or a density of a medium flowing through a measurement tube of the Coriolis measuring instrument. The measurement tube has an inlet and an outlet designed to convey the medium between the inlet and the outlet; an exciter; and two sensors; the measuring sensor comprising a supporting element having a chamber designed to house the measurement tube at least in portions. The magnet device comprises a magnetically conductive holder for magnets and a first pair of magnets arranged on the holder on a first face of the coil device, with the magnets designed to cause a magnetic field perpendicularly to a cross-sectional plane of the coil, and the magnetic field of a first magnet of the pair is oriented so as to be opposite to the magnetic field of a second magnet of the pair.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger, Gebhard Gschwend
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Patent number: 11783976Abstract: The coil comprises a coil carrier, a coil wire at least partially surrounded by an insulating layer and wound around the coil carrier, as well as a protective cover layer at least partially covering the coil wire wound around the coil carrier. The coil wire is composed, at least partially, of silver, the insulating layer surrounding the coil wire is composed, at least partially, of a ceramic material, and the protective cover layer is composed, at least partially, of a ceramic material and/or a glass.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Claude Hollinger, Marc Werner, Martin Stucki
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Publication number: 20220316929Abstract: The invention relates to a Coriolis measuring transducer of a Coriolis measuring device comprising: at least one measuring tube; at least one exciter; at least two sensors; wherein at least one exciter or at least one sensor has a coil device and a magnet device, wherein the magnet device has a holder and at least a first magnet group and at least a second magnet group, wherein the holder has a body with a body length axis and a first end and a second end wherein the first end has an end surface, wherein the body has three recesses, wherein a central recess is separated, in each case, from an outer recess by, in each case, an intermediate wall, wherein each intermediate wall has an opening, and wherein the first magnet group is arranged in a first opening, and wherein the second magnet group is arranged in a second opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger, Gebhard Gschwend
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Publication number: 20220163362Abstract: A Coriolis sensor includes: a measurement tube having an inlet and an outlet; an exciter; and two sensor elements, wherein the exciter and/or the sensor element respectively have a coil arrangement and a magnet arrangement, wherein the magnet arrangement has a retainer for magnets, at least one first magnet group and at least one second magnet group, wherein the retainer is U-shaped with a first arm, a second arm and a base connecting the arms, wherein the retainer engages around the coil arrangement, wherein the first magnet group is retained on the first side of the coil arrangement by the retainer, and wherein the second magnet group is retained on the second side of the coil arrangement by the retainer, wherein the retainer has a cavity in a region of each of the arms for receiving a magnet group, wherein the retainer is manufactured using a 3D printing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger, Gebhard Gschwend
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Publication number: 20220146294Abstract: Disclosed is a measuring sensor of a measuring device for detecting a mass flow rate. The measuring sensor comprises a measuring tube, a vibration exciter, and at least two vibration sensors. The vibration exciter and the vibration sensors each have a coil apparatus having at least one coil and at least one magnetic apparatus. The coil apparatus comprises a printed circuit board having at least one printed circuit board layer, wherein the coil is formed by means of an electrically conductive conductor track, wherein the coil is arranged on the first side and/or second side of a printed circuit board layer, wherein the printed circuit board comprises at least two contact-making elements for connecting the coil to an electronic measuring and/or operating circuit of the measuring device by means of connection elements, and is characterized in that at least one contact-making element has a hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Martin Stucki, Claude Hollinger, Marc Werner
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Publication number: 20220074776Abstract: The invention relates to a Coriolis measuring sensor for detecting a mass flow rate or a density of a medium flowing through a measurement tube of the Coriolis measuring instrument. The measurement tube has an inlet and an outlet designed to convey the medium between the inlet and the outlet; an exciter; and two sensors; the measuring sensor comprising a supporting element having a chamber designed to house the measurement tube at least in portions. The magnet device comprises a magnetically conductive holder for magnets and a first pair of magnets arranged on the holder on a first face of the coil device, with the magnets designed to cause a magnetic field perpendicularly to a cross-sectional plane of the coil, and the magnetic field of a first magnet of the pair is oriented so as to be opposite to the magnetic field of a second magnet of the pair.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger, Gebhard Gschwend
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Publication number: 20210341326Abstract: The disclosure relates to a measuring transducer of a measuring device for registering a mass flow or a density of a medium flowing through a measuring tube of the measuring transducer. An exciter excites the measuring tube to execute oscillations. At least two sensors are adapted to register deflections of oscillations of the measuring tube. At least one exciter and the sensors each have a coil apparatus with, in each case, at least one coil, as well as, in each case, a magnet apparatus, wherein the magnet apparatuses are movable relative to their coil apparatuses. The magnet apparatus of a sensor or exciter has, in each case, at least one magnet, wherein the measuring transducer has a support body, which is adapted to hold the at least one measuring tube. The coil apparatuses of the sensors or the coil apparatus of the exciter are secured separately on the support body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Severin Ramseyer, Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger, Martin Stucki
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Publication number: 20210310842Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a coil apparatus of an oscillation sensor or exciter of a measuring transducer or a measuring instrument for measuring a density or a mass flow of a medium flowing through a measuring tube, comprising: a circuit board, at least one coil adapted for registering or producing a time varying magnetic field, wherein the at least one coil has a first coil end and a second coil end, wherein the coil apparatus has four contacting elements, wherein the circuit board has a cutting plane extending perpendicularly to the faces, wherein the cutting plane divides the faces into a first side and a second side, wherein one contacting element of a pair of contacting elements is arranged on the first side, and wherein one contacting element of a pair of contacting elements is arranged on the second side.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Claude Hollinger, Marc Werner
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Publication number: 20210310920Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a measuring transducer of a measurement device for registering a mass flow or a density of a medium The measuring transducer includes a measuring tube, at least one exciter adapted to excite the measuring tube to execute oscillations, and two sensors adapted to register deflection of oscillations of the measuring tube. The exciter and the sensors each have a coil device including a circuit board with a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The coil device of the sensors or exciter are/is secured using a holder apparatus adapted to clamp the circuit board, wherein the circuit board is mechanically contacted by the holder apparatus using at least one holder element, wherein the holder element has a second coefficient of thermal expansion, wherein the first coefficient of thermal expansion and the second coefficient of thermal expansion differ from one another by less than 3*10?6/Kelvin.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger, Martin Stucki
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Publication number: 20210310843Abstract: The invention relates to a coil apparatus of an oscillation sensor or exciter of a measuring transducer or a measuring device for measuring a density or mass flow of a medium flowing through a measuring tube of the measuring transducer or measuring device, comprising: a circuit board having a circuit board layer, at least one coil registering or producing a time varying magnetic field, wherein the coil has a winding region and a central region lacking turns of a winding, wherein the central region of a coil has a rectangular shape with oppositely lying, first sides and with oppositely lying, second sides, wherein the first sides have a first side length, and wherein the second sides have a second side length, wherein the electrically conductive trace has a trace breadth of at least 30 micrometer, wherein a ratio of first side length to second side length is greater than 3.25.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Severin Ramseyer, Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger, Martin Stucki
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Publication number: 20210313108Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of producing a coil device of an oscillation sensor or oscillation exciter of a measuring transducer or an instrument for measuring a density or a mass flow of a medium flowing through at least one measuring tube of the measuring transducer or instrument, to a coil device, to a measuring transducer, and to an instrument, wherein in a first method step a first end of an electrical connection line of the coil device is surrounded in a depression of a circuit board of the coil device with a metal microparticle paste, wherein in a second method step the metal microparticle paste is dried, wherein the drying process results in a hardening of the metal microparticle paste, so that a metal microparticle mass remains.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger
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Publication number: 20200251265Abstract: The coil comprises a coil carrier, a coil wire at least partially surrounded by an insulating layer and wound around the coil carrier, as well as a protective cover layer at least partially covering the coil wire wound around the coil carrier. The coil wire is composed, at least partially, of silver, the insulating layer surrounding the coil wire is composed, at least partially, of a ceramic material, and the protective cover layer is composed, at least partially, of a ceramic material and/or a glass.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Claude Hollinger, Marc Werner, Martin Stucki
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Patent number: 10533884Abstract: A measuring transducer for registering and/or monitoring at least one process variable of a flowable medium guided in a pipeline, which at least includes: a housing module, which is mechanically coupled with the pipeline via an inlet end and an outlet end, and a sensor module having at least one measuring tube held oscillatably at least partially in the housing module and caused, at least at times, to oscillate. The at least one component of the housing module and/or of the sensor module is manufactured by means of a generative method and method for manufacturing at least one component of a measuring transducer, which method includes manufacturing the at least one component by means of a primary forming process, especially by means of a layered applying and/or melting-on of a powder, especially a metal powder, based on a digital data set, which gives at least the shape and/or the material and/or the structure of the at least one component.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AGInventors: Martin Josef Anklin, Gerhard Eckert, Christian Schutze, Ennio Bitto, Christof Huber, Claude Hollinger, Alfred Rieder, Michael Kirst
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Publication number: 20170343404Abstract: A measuring transducer for registering and/or monitoring at least one process variable of a flowable medium guided in a pipeline, which at least includes: a housing module, which is mechanically coupled with the pipeline via an inlet end and an outlet end, and a sensor module having at least one measuring tube held oscillatably at least partially in the housing module and caused, at least at times, to oscillate. The at least one component of the housing module and/or of the sensor module is manufactured by means of a generative method and method for manufacturing at least one component of a measuring transducer, which method includes manufacturing the at least one component by means of a primary forming process, especially by means of a layered applying and/or melting-on of a powder, especially a metal powder, based on a digital data set, which gives at least the shape and/or the material and/or the structure of the at least one component.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2015Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Martin Josef Anklin, Gerhard Eckert, Christian Schutze, Ennio Bitto, Christof Huber, Claude Hollinger, Alfred Rieder, Michael Kirst