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).

  • Publication number: 20210164822
    Abstract: The invention relates to a Coriolis measuring transducer (10), comprising: at least one measuring tube; at least one exciter mechanism (12.1); at least two sensor groups of sensor arrangements with, in each case, at least one sensor arrangement, wherein the at least one measuring tube is at least sectionally bent, wherein the measuring tube is clamped in the regions of the inlet and the outlet by, in each case, a securement apparatus, wherein the measuring tube has an inner side (IS) facing a longitudinal axis as well as an outer side (OS) facing away from the longitudinal axis, wherein the exciter mechanism is arranged in a midlength region of the measuring tube, wherein a first sensor group is arranged in an inlet side intermediate region of the measuring tube, and wherein a second sensor group is arranged in an outlet side intermediate region of the measuring tube, wherein at least one sensor group (13) is a supplemented sensor group (13.1) and includes at least two sensor arrangements (13.2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Hao ZHU, Martin Josef ANKLIN, Ennio BITTO
  • 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 10845227
    Abstract: A Coriolis mass flow measuring device and/or density measuring device, comprising: at least two measuring tubes which extend mirror symmetrically to a first mirror plane; at least one exciter mechanism and at least one sensor arrangement for exciting and registering measuring tube oscillations; two terminally located collectors for joining the measuring tubes; a support body for connecting the collectors; and a number of plate-shaped couplers for pairwise connecting of the measuring tubes for forming an oscillator. The measuring tube centerlines of the measuring tubes have two oppositely bent sections and an intermediately lying straight section. The second bent section is arranged on the side of the straight section away from the second mirror plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Gerhard Eckert, Ennio Bitto
  • Publication number: 20200333229
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a transducer comprising a tube, a converter unit, an electromechanical exciter arrangement for stimulating and sustaining forced mechanical vibrations of the converter unit, and a sensor arrangement for detecting mechanical vibrations of the converter unit and for generating a vibration signal representing mechanical vibrations of the converter unit. The converter unit includes two connection elements connected to a displacer element and is inserted into the tube and connected thereto. The converter unit is configured as to be contacted by a fluid flowing through the tube and enabled to vibrate such that the connection elements and the displacer elements are proportionately elastically deformed. The transducer can be a constituent of a measuring system adapted to measure and/or monitor a flow parameter of the flowing fluid and further includes an electronic measuring and operating system coupled to the exciter arrangement and the sensor arrangement of the transducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Alfred Rieder, Yaoying Lin, Martin Josef Anklin
  • Patent number: 10768034
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a measurement sensor of the vibrational type for measuring the density and/or the mass flow of a medium, including: two oscillators; an exciter for stimulating oscillator vibrations; and two vibration sensors, wherein the first oscillator includes first and second measuring tubes and a first resilient vibration coupler for coupling the measuring tubes, wherein the second oscillator includes third and fourth measuring tubes and a second resilient vibration coupler for coupling the third and fourth measuring tubes, wherein perpendicularly to a measuring tube transverse plane a measurement sensor longitudinal plane extends between the third and the fourth measuring tube, wherein the first and third measuring tube relative to a measurement sensor longitudinal plane are in mirror symmetry relative to one another, and wherein the second and fourth measuring tube relative to the measurement sensor longitudinal plane are in mirror symmetry relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Ennio Bitto, Gerhard Eckert
  • Publication number: 20200124452
    Abstract: The invention relates to a measuring system comprising a measuring and operation electronic unit (ME) and a transducer device electrically coupled thereto. The transducer device (MW) has at least one tube, through which fluid flows during operation and which is caused to vibrate meanwhile, a vibration exciter (41), two vibration sensors (51, 52), on the inlet and outlet sides, respectively, for generating vibration signals (s1, s2), and two temperature sensors (71, 72), on the inlet and outlet sides, respectively, for generating temperature measurement signals (81, 82), said temperature sensors being coupled to a wall of the tube in a thermally conductive manner. The measuring and operation electronic unit (ME) is electrically connected to each of the vibration sensors (51, 52) and to each of the temperature sensors (71, 72) and also to the at least one vibration exciter (41).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Ennio BITTO, Christof HUBER, Alfred RIEDER
  • Patent number: 10591335
    Abstract: A Coriolis mass flow measuring device and/or density measuring device includes two bent measuring tubes, which extend mirror symmetrically to a first mirror plane between the measuring tubes, an actuator arrangement and at least one sensor arrangement. At the inlet end and at the outlet end, a collector, with which the measuring tubes are joined, wherein the collectors each fulfill the functionality of a node plate. A support body, which connects the collectors rigidly with one another; and inlet end and outlet end, in each case, at least one plate-shaped coupler, which connect the measuring tubes pairwise with one another, in order to form an oscillator. The couplers have tube openings for measuring tubes, wherein the measuring tubes are connected at least sectionally with the couplers, wherein inlet end and outlet end, in each case, at least one coupler has, between the measuring tubes, a tuning opening for influencing the oscillation characteristics of the oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Ennio Bitto
  • Publication number: 20200049543
    Abstract: The measuring system comprises a transducer apparatus (MT) with two tubes (11, 12), each of which has a lumen (11?) surrounded by a wall, especially a metal wall and extends from an inlet side end (11a, 12a) to an outlet side end (11b, 12b) Each of the two tubes is adapted to be flowed through by a fluid, starting from an inlet side end and proceeding toward an outlet side end, and, during that, to be caused to vibrate. An electromechanical- exciter mechanism formed by means of at least one oscillation exciter (41) serves for exciting and maintaining mechanical oscillations of each of the tubes about their associated static resting positions and a sensor arrangement (S) formed by means of at least one oscillation sensor (51) serves for registering mechanical oscillations of at least one of the tubes (11, 12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Alfred RIEDER, Gerhard ECKERT, Ennio BITTO, Hao ZHU
  • Patent number: 10533884
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Martin Josef Anklin, Gerhard Eckert, Christian Schutze, Ennio Bitto, Christof Huber, Claude Hollinger, Alfred Rieder, Michael Kirst
  • Publication number: 20190383656
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a measurement sensor of the vibrational type for measuring the density and/or the mass flow of a medium, including: two oscillators; an exciter for stimulating oscillator vibrations; and two vibration sensors, wherein the first oscillator includes first and second measuring tubes and a first resilient vibration coupler for coupling the measuring tubes, wherein the second oscillator includes third and fourth measuring tubes and a second resilient vibration coupler for coupling the third and fourth measuring tubes, wherein perpendicularly to a measuring tube transverse plane a measurement sensor longitudinal plane extends between the third and the fourth measuring tube, wherein the first and third measuring tube relative to a measurement sensor longitudinal plane are in mirror symmetry relative to one another, and wherein the second and fourth measuring tube relative to the measurement sensor longitudinal plane are in mirror symmetry relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Ennio Bitto, Gerhard Eckert
  • Publication number: 20190383658
    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: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Ennio Bitto, Gerhard Eckert
  • Publication number: 20190376831
    Abstract: The measuring system comprises a transducer apparatus (MT) with two tubes (11, 12), each of which has a lumen (11?) surrounded by a wall, especially a metal wall and extends from an inlet side end (11a, 12a) to an outlet side end (11b, 12b) Each of the two tubes is adapted to be flowed through by a fluid, starting from an inlet side end and proceeding toward an outlet side end, and, during that, to be caused to vibrate. An electromechanical-exciter mechanism formed by means of at least one oscillation exciter (41) serves for exciting and maintaining mechanical oscillations of each of the tubes (11, 12) about their associated static resting positions and a sensor arrangement (S) formed by means of at least one oscillation sensor (51) serves for registering mechanical oscillations of at least one of the tubes (11, 12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Alfred RIEDER, Gerhard ECKERT, Ennio BITTO, Hao ZHU
  • Publication number: 20190323873
    Abstract: The invention relates to a measuring system comprising a measuring and operation electronic unit (ME) and a transducer device electrically coupled thereto. The transducer device (MW) has two tubes (11, 12), through which fluid flows during operation and in the process are caused to vibrate, a vibration exciter (41), two vibration sensors (51, 52), on the inlet and outlet sides, respectively, for generating vibration signals (s1, s2), and an inlet-side temperature sensor (71) coupled to a wall of the tube (11) for thermal conduction and an outlet-side temperature sensor (72) coupled to a wall of the tube (12) for generating temperature measurement signals (?1, ?2). The measuring and operation electronic unit (ME) is electrically connected to each of the vibration sensors (51, 52) and to each of the temperature sensors (71, 72) and also to the at least one vibration exciter (41).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Ennio BITTO, Christof HUBER, Alfred RIEDER
  • Publication number: 20190242738
    Abstract: A Coriolis mass flow measuring device and/or density measuring device, comprising: at least two measuring tubes which extend mirror symmetrically to a first mirror plane; at least one exciter mechanism and at least one sensor arrangement for exciting and registering measuring tube oscillations; two terminally located collectors for joining the measuring tubes; a support body for connecting the collectors; and a number of plate-shaped couplers for pairwise connecting of the measuring tubes for forming an oscillator. The measuring tube centerlines of the measuring tubes have two oppositely bent sections and an intermediately lying straight section. The second bent section is arranged on the side of the straight section away from the second mirror plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Hao ZHU, Alfred RIEDER, Gerhard ECKERT, Ennio BITTO
  • Patent number: 10371553
    Abstract: transducer apparatus comprises a transducer housing, a tube, a temperature sensor as well as a temperature sensor. The tube is arranged within a cavity of the transducer housing, in such a manner that an intermediate space is formed between a wall of the transducer housing facing the cavity inner surface and an outer surface of a wall of the tube facing the cavity. Furthermore, the tube is adapted to guide a fluid in its lumen, in such a manner that an inner surface of the wall of the tube facing the lumen is contacted by fluid guided in the lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Alfred Rieder, Hao Zhu, Ennio Bitto, Gerhard Eckert, Josef Hubensteiner, Michael Wiesmann, Yaoing Lin
  • Publication number: 20190162702
    Abstract: A measuring transducer includes a support body, a curved oscillatable measuring tube, an electrodynamic exciter, at least one sensor for registering oscillations of the measuring tube, and an operating circuit. The measuring tube has first and second bending oscillation modes, which are mirror symmetric to a measuring tube transverse plane and have first and second media density dependent eigenfrequencies f1, f3 with f3>f1. The measuring tube has a peak secant with an oscillation node in the second mirror symmetric bending oscillation mode. The operating circuit is adapted to drive the exciter conductor loop with a signal exciting the second mirror symmetric bending oscillation mode. The exciter conductor loop has an ohmic resistance R? and a mode dependent mutual induction reactance Rg3 which depends on the position of the exciter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Alfred Rieder, Gerhard Eckert, Ennio Bitto, Hao Zhu
  • Publication number: 20180364075
    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: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Andreas Gunzenhauser