Patents by Inventor Ennio Bitto
Ennio Bitto 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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Publication number: 20260133060Abstract: A process monitoring device includes: a measuring tube module having at least one measuring tube through which a medium can flow; a receptacle module having a receptacle, wherein the measuring tube module can be inserted into the receptacle, wherein the measuring tube module can be mechanically separably connected to the receptacle module; and an installation for biotechnological applications, wherein the installation includes a cabinet, wherein the cabinet has a cabinet wall, which delimits a cabinet interior, wherein the cabinet wall has a cover, wherein the cover includes an opening, wherein the receptacle module, in particular the receptacle, extends through the opening into the cabinet interior.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2025Publication date: May 14, 2026Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Robert Lalla, Samuel Neeser, Martin Josef Anklin, Ennio Bitto, Ruben Kiefer, Marc Werner
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Patent number: 12584776Abstract: A process monitoring device includes: a measuring tube arrangement including a measuring tube; a receptacle module including a receptacle, wherein the measuring tube module is insertable into the receptacle and releasably mechanically connectable to the receptacle module; and a system for biotechnological applications, wherein the system includes a housing with a wall delimiting an interior, the wall having a cover with an opening, wherein the receptacle extends through the opening into the interior in a receiving direction, wherein the receptacle module is arranged in the opening that the receiving direction has a vector component opposite to the direction of gravity, such that a dead volume in the measuring tube and/or in a distributor piece which is attached to the measuring tube, when the measuring tube module is empty, is less than 20%.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Ennio Bitto, Marc Werner
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Patent number: 12546638Abstract: A measuring transducer includes a tube assembly including two pair of structurally identical tubes, each connected at their respective ends to each of two flow dividers, thereby forming four parallel flow paths, and each including alternating, adjoining straight and arcuate segments, wherein each of the first and third arcuate segments has a segment length corresponding to an extended length of a virtual center line of the segment, an arc radius corresponding to a radius of the virtual center line and a center point angle corresponding to a ratio between the segment length and the arc radius, such that each of the first arcuate segments are identical in both shape and size, and such that each of the third arcuate segments are identical in both shape and size, wherein the measuring transducer further includes an exciter assembly and a sensor assembly, each connected to the tube assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Hao Zhu, Gerhard Eckert, Ennio Bitto, Alfred Rieder, Marc Werner
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Patent number: 12535350Abstract: A measuring transducer includes: a transducer module including a housing and a coil within and connected with the housing; and, set in the transducer module, a transducer module including a tube and a magnet secured on a middle segment of the tube. The tube wall is so formed that a directrix of a channel surface of the middle segment extends outside a first reference plane of the measuring transducer defined by first and fourth reference axes, and the magnet is secured on the middle segment such that a second reference plane of the measuring transducer defined by second and fourth reference axes is parallel to a third reference plane defined by third and fifth reference axes or that the second and third reference planes intersect one another to form an angle of intersection of no more than 1°.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Walter Kamber, Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner
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Patent number: 12529587Abstract: A process monitoring device includes: a measuring tube module having at least one measuring tube through which a medium can flow; a receptacle module having a receptacle, wherein the measuring tube module can be inserted into the receptacle, wherein the measuring tube module can be mechanically separably connected to the receptacle module; and a system for biotechnological applications, wherein the system has a housing, wherein the housing has a housing wall, which delimits a housing interior, wherein the housing wall has a cover, wherein the cover has an opening, wherein the receptacle module, in particular the receptacle, extends through the opening into the housing interior.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 20, 2026Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Robert Lalla, Samuel Neeser, Martin Josef Anklin, Ennio Bitto, Ruben Kiefer, Marc Werner
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Patent number: 12523587Abstract: A modular measuring device for determining a density of a measurement medium includes a support module, a first measuring tube module and at least one further measuring tube module, wherein the support module has a receptacle for detachably fastening the measuring tube modules, a contactless temperature sensor, a primary exciter component along with a primary sensor component, wherein each measuring tube module has a restraint complementary to the receptacle of the support module, a vibrating tube, a secondary exciter component complementary to the primary exciter component, and a secondary sensor component complementary to the primary sensor component, wherein each vibrating tube of the measuring tube modules has a different tube diameter, a straight first tube leg, a straight second tube leg, a curved first tube bend and a curved second tube bend.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 13, 2026Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner
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Patent number: 12480795Abstract: A Coriolis flow meter, includes: a measuring tube arrangement with at least one measuring tube and a fixing body arrangement; at least one oscillation exciter and at least one oscillation sensor; a support apparatus with seat and fixing apparatus, wherein the fixing apparatus has at least one swingable fixing element, wherein the fixing apparatus is adapted to connect the measuring tube arrangement, for example, the at least one measuring tube, via the fixing body arrangement mechanically releasably with the support apparatus body, wherein the at least one fixing element is adapted in the case of connecting the measuring tube arrangement with the support apparatus body to exert a bending force on the fixing body arrangement for elastically bending the fixing body arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 25, 2025Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Ennio Bitto
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Patent number: 12449292Abstract: A method for determining variables influencing a total zero point error of a Coriolis mass flow meter comprises: exciting a vibration of a bending vibration mode; measuring a first total zero point error T at a flow of zero; ascertaining a first damping value D of the vibration of the bending vibration mode; measuring an exciter-independent zero point error I during a decaying vibration of the bending vibration mode at a flow of zero; ascertaining a first exciter-dependent contribution E to the first total zero point error T based on the first total zero point error T and based on the exciter-independent zero point error I; and ascertaining a sensitivity factor S for the bending vibration mode based on the first exciter-dependent contribution E to the total zero point error T and based on the first damping value D.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 21, 2025Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Hao Zhu, Ennio Bitto
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Patent number: 12436013Abstract: A modular Coriolis flowmeter includes: a measuring tube module, including a measuring tube for guiding the medium, an excitation magnet on a vibration exciter for exciting the measuring tube, and a sensor magnet on a vibration sensor for detecting a vibration of the measuring tube; a receiving module including a receptacle for receiving the measuring tube module, an excitation coil on the vibration exciter, a sensor coil on the vibration sensor, and a receiving module body, including a ferromagnetic material and an opening, wherein a coil holder for the excitation coil and/or sensor coil is disposed in the opening, the coil holder including a coil holder body including an electrically insulating material.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 7, 2025Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Johan Pohl
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Patent number: 12392649Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for putting a Coriolis flow meter into operation, in particular a Coriolis flow meter for pharmaceutical bioprocess applications, the method comprising the method steps of: inserting the measuring tube arrangement into the receptacle of the carrier device; causing the measuring tube to vibrate by means of the excitation signal arriving at the vibration exciter and provided by the operating circuit; determining a measurement value of a state variable that is used as a measure for checking whether the measuring tube in the carrier device is in a steady state; and determining the mass flow rate measurement value when a difference between the measurement value of the state variable and a reference value of a reference variable lies below an upper limit value and exceeds a lower limit value.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 19, 2025Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Martin Josef Anklin, Benjamin Schwenter
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Patent number: 12287349Abstract: A measuring transducer includes a tube arrangement having a bent tube, an equally embodied tube, a bent tube and a tube embodied equally to the tube, and two flow dividers each having four flow openings. The measuring transducer includes an exciter for exciting and maintaining mechanical oscillations of the tube arrangement and a sensor for registering mechanical oscillations of the tube arrangement and for producing oscillation measuring signals. Each tube is connected to each flow divider to form four parallel flow paths, having a straight segment connected with the flow divider, an arc shaped segment following such straight segment, a straight segment following such arc shaped segment, an arc shaped segment following such straight segment, a straight segment following such arc shaped segment, an arc shaped segment following such straight segment, and a straight segment following such arc shaped segment and is connected with the flow divider.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Ennio Bitto, Gerhard Eckert
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Patent number: 12281924Abstract: The measuring system comprises a vibration-type measuring sensor, a sensor housing, a magnetic-field detector, and measuring-system electronics electrically coupled both to an oscillation exciter and to oscillation-sensing devices of the measuring sensor. The measuring sensor is inside the sensor housing and the magnetic-field detector is outside the sensor housing. The magnetic-field detector is designed to convert changes in the magnetic field into a magnetic-field signal having an amplitude dependent on a magnetic flux through the magnetic-field detector and/or on an area density of said magnetic flux. The measuring-system electronics are designed to determine, on the basis of oscillation measurement signals of the measuring sensor, the mass-flow-rate measurement values representing the mass flow rate and to at least qualitatively determine, on the basis of the magnetic-field signal, whether an external magnetic field is established inside the measuring sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Alfred Rieder, Robert Lalla, Marcel Braun, Ennio Bitto, Johan Pohl
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Publication number: 20240418553Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Hao Zhu, Martin Josef Anklin, Wolfgang Drahm
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Publication number: 20240410731Abstract: A vibronic sensor for measuring mass flow rate, includes a measurement pipe, an excitation magnet and a sensor magnet, an excitation coil and a sensor coils, each having an elongated basic shape. The basic shape has a center of gravity through which a largest diameter having a length d1 and a smallest diameter having a length d2 extend, wherein the excitation coil or the sensor coil has a first coil axis and a second coil axis in a cross-sectional plane. The largest diameter d is in the first coil axis, wherein the smallest diameter d2 is in the second coil axis. For a quotient d1/d2, the following applies: 1.15?d1/d2, where, when the measurement pipe vibrates in an in-plane mode, a deflection direction of the measurement pipe is oriented in parallel with the first coil axis in a region of the excitation magnet or the sensor magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2022Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Christian Schütze, Marc Werner, Ennio Bitto, Dieter Mundschin
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Patent number: 12152920Abstract: The Coriolis mass flowmeter comprises a measuring transducer having a vibration element, an exciter arrangement, and a sensor arrangement The flowmeter further includes an electronic transmitter circuit coupled with the exciter arrangement and the sensor arrangement. The transmitter circuit supplies power to the exciter arrangement to force mechanical oscillations having a wanted frequency. The sensor arrangement includes two electrodynamic oscillation sensors to convert oscillatory movements of the vibration element into an electrical signal having an alternating voltage having an amplitude dependent on the wanted frequency and on a magnetic flux of its oscillation sensor. The sensor arrangement includes a magnetic field detector adapted to convert changes of the magnetic field into a magnetic field signal having an amplitude dependent on a magnetic flux and/or an areal density of the magnetic flux.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Robert Lalla, Alfred Rieder, Ennio Bitto, Marcel Braun
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Publication number: 20240344868Abstract: A Coriolis mass flow meter includes: a measuring tube for guiding a medium; a support body connected to the measuring tube on the inlet side and on the outlet side; an exciter for exciting bending vibrations of the measuring tube; at least two vibration sensors for detecting vibrations of the measuring tube; and a reinforcing body fastened to a lateral surface of the measuring tube and surrounds the measuring tube, the reinforcing body including, at least in sections, a helical course with a plurality of windings, a distance between two adjacent windings of the reinforcing body being not less than twice, for example, not less than four times or not less than eight times, a material thickness of the reinforcing body in the region of the windings.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Hao Zhu, Dirk Butzbach
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Patent number: 12098939Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Hao Zhu, Martin Josef Anklin, Wolfgang Drahm
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Publication number: 20240151621Abstract: A modular measuring device for determining a density of a measurement medium includes a support module, a first measuring tube module and at least one further measuring tube module, wherein the support module has a receptacle for detachably fastening the measuring tube modules, a contactless temperature sensor, a primary exciter component along with a primary sensor component, wherein each measuring tube module has a restraint complementary to the receptacle of the support module, a vibrating tube, a secondary exciter component complementary to the primary exciter component, and a secondary sensor component complementary to the primary sensor component, wherein each vibrating tube of the measuring tube modules has a different tube diameter, a straight first tube leg, a straight second tube leg, a curved first tube bend and a curved second tube bend.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner
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Publication number: 20240053182Abstract: A process monitoring device includes: a measuring tube arrangement including a measuring tube; a receptacle module including a receptacle, wherein the measuring tube module is insertable into the receptacle and releasably mechanically connectable to the receptacle module; and a system for biotechnological applications, wherein the system includes a housing with a wall delimiting an interior, the wall having a cover with an opening, wherein the receptacle extends through the opening into the interior in a receiving direction, wherein the receptacle module is arranged in the opening that the receiving direction has a vector component opposite to the direction of gravity, such that a dead volume in the measuring tube and/or in a distributor piece which is attached to the measuring tube, when the measuring tube module is empty, is less than 20%.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Ennio Bitto, Marc Werner
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Publication number: 20240044686Abstract: A method for determining variables influencing a total zero point error of a Coriolis mass flow meter comprises: exciting a vibration of a bending vibration mode; measuring a first total zero point error T at a flow of zero; ascertaining a first damping value D of the vibration of the bending vibration mode; measuring an exciter-independent zero point error I during a decaying vibration of the bending vibration mode at a flow of zero; ascertaining a first exciter-dependent contribution E to the first total zero point error T based on the first total zero point error T and based on the exciter-independent zero point error I; and ascertaining a sensitivity factor S for the bending vibration mode based on the first exciter-dependent contribution E to the total zero point error T and based on the first damping value D.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Hao Zhu, Ennio Bitto