Abstract: This mass flow/density sensor (10), which can be installed in a pipe and through which a fluid to be measured flows during operation, is to be balanced over a wide density range, so that accurate measurements are possible. A single straight measuring tube (13) having a longitudinal axis (131) extends between its inlet end (11) and the outlet end (12) and is fixed to a support, e.g., a cylindrical tube (14, 14′). The support has a longitudinal centroidal line (141) which is parallel to, but does not coincide with, the longitudinal axis (131) of the measuring tube. A cantilever (15) is fixed to the measuring tube (13) midway between the inlet and outlet ends (11, 12) and in operation causes the measuring tube to vibrate either in a first fundamental flexural mode or in a second fundamental flexural mode having a higher frequency than this first mode. An excitation arrangement (16) disposed midway between the end pieces excites the measuring tube (13) in the second mode.

Abstract: A Coriolis mass flow/density sensor which can be installed in a pipe and through which a fluid to be measured flows during operation is balanced over a wide density range so that accurate measurements are possible. The Coriolis mass flow/density sensor includes a measuring tube, an excitation arrangement for exciting the measuring tube to vibrate in a second fundamental flexural mode of vibration; and a counterbalance member attached to the measuring tube which counterbalances the vibration of the measuring tube. A cantilever can be attached to the measuring tube midway between the inlet end and the outlet end of the measuring tube. First and second sensors sense the measuring tube vibration on the inlet and outlet sides of the measuring tube, respectively.

Abstract: This sensor (10) generates accurate measuring results, for example with an error in the order of 0.5% of the measuring value, hat has mimimized production costs as well as a shorter overall length compared to that of conventional sensors. The sensor has two parallel V shaped measuring tubes (1, 2) each being of one-piece construction. Each tube has a straight inlet portion (11, 21), a straight outlet portion (12, 22), an inlet bend (13, 23) connected with the inlet portion, an outlet bend (14, 24) connected with the outlet portion, a straight tube portion (15, 25) connected with the inlet bend, a straight tube portion (16, 26) connected with the outlet bend, and a vertex bend (17, 27) connected with the first and second straight tube portions. The inlet portions (11, 21) are fixed in an inlet manifold (18) and the outlet portions in an outlet manifold (19); the manifolds (18, 19) are mounted in a support frame (30) which forms part of a housing (3).

Abstract: This method of fastening a metal body to a an outer circumference of a single straight measuring tube, consisting of titanium or zirconium, of a Coriolis-type mass flow sensor does not need any heating, for example soldering, welding or brazing, process. The metal body has a circumferential surface and a bore adapted to the outer circumference. The metal body cooperates with an exciter arrangement or with a sensor arrangement or serves as a cantilever mass or as an end piece of the measuring tube. The metal body is pushed on to the measuring tube and is subsequently pressed on to the latter at ambient temperature. A pressure sufficient for fastening but not reducing substantially the lumen of the measuring tube at the fastening position is exerted on at least part of the circumferential surface.

Abstract: This mass flow/density sensor (10), which can be installed in a pipe and through which a fluid to be measured flows during operation, is to be balanced over a wide density range, so that accurate measurements are possible. A single straight measuring tube (13) having a longitudinal axis (131) extends between its inlet end (11) and the outlet end (12) and is fixed to a support, e.g., a cylindrical tube (14, 14'). The support has a longitudinal centroidal line (141) which is parallel to, but does not coincide with, the longitudinal axis (131) of the measuring tube. A cantilever (15) is fixed to the measuring tube (13) midway between the inlet and outlet ends (11, 12) and in operation causes the measuring tube to vibrate either in a first fundamental flexural mode or in a second fundamental flexural mode having a higher frequency than this first mode. An excitation arrangement (16) disposed midway between the end pieces excites the measuring tube (13) in the second mode.

Abstract: This mass flow sensor, which can be mounted by means of end parts, in particular flanges, in a conduit of a given diameter through which flows a fluid to be measured, has two parallel, circular-arc-segment-shaped measuring tubes which are fixed at their ends in respective flanges. The measuring tubes have the same inner diameter D and the same wall thickness w. The circular-arc segment has a height h, an arc radius R, and a chord length L. The inner diameter D is chosen as a function of the maximum permissible pressure loss in the measuring tubes, and the wall thickness w as a function of the maximum permissible pressure of the fluid. The stress .sigma..sub.T resulting from a maximum permissible temperature change .delta.T of the fluid is chosen to be less than the .sigma..sub.0.2 -value of the material of the measuring tubes. Under these conditions and for a given arc radius R, the segment height h is chosen as small as possible to become h.sub.min.

Abstract: A mass flowmeter (1) based on the Coriolis principle is disclosed whose susceptibility to disturbances originating from the conduit, such as vibrations of the conduit or wide pressure variations of the fluid, and to other disturbances, such as impacts on the casing (11), is greatly reduced by mechanical means.

Abstract: This mass flow sensor, which can be installed in a fluid-carrying conduit of a given diameter so as to be axially aligned with the conduit, and whose production costs are drastically reduced, has an inlet tube and an outlet tube which serve to connect the mass flow sensor with the conduit, an inlet manifold and an outlet manifold, an external support tube whose end portions are fixed with their inside surfaces to the inlet manifold and outlet manifold, respectively, and with their faces to the inlet tube and outlet tube, respectively, two parallel, straight measuring tubes of the same inside diameter and the same wall thickness each having its two end portions fixed in parallel bores of the inlet manifold in alignment with the inlet tube and in parallel bores of the outlet manifold in alignment with the outlet tube, respectively, two node plates interconnecting the two measuring tubes near the inlet manifold and the outlet manifold, respectively, two vibration exciters, one per measuring tube, which excite th

Abstract: This mass flow sensor has a vibration-body arrangement through which flows a fluid to be measured and which comprises the following parts: two plane, congruent tube loops each consisting of a straight inlet tube with an inlet end, a straight outlet tube with an outlet end, which ends are fixed in a common mount, and a tube bend interconnecting the respective inlet tube and the respective outlet tube. Mounted at the junctions of the respective inlet and outlet tubes and the associated tube bends is a plate with holes which correspond to the outside diameter of the straight tubes and the tube bends and in which the latter are fixed to determine a respective vibration node. A vibration exciter sets the two tube bends into opposite sympathetic vibrations perpendicular to their respective planes, and two sensors are spaced along the straight tubes for sensing the vibrations of the latter.

Abstract: A Coriolis principle mass flow meter is provided which is insertable into a conduit of a given diameter so as to be axially aligned with the conduit and through which flows a fluid to be measured. The flow meter includes two measuring tubes each having the same inner diameter and the same wall thickness. The two measuring tubes are coupled to an inlet manifold and an outlet manifold. The inlet and outlet manifolds are coupled to an external support tube. The flow meter also includes an internal supporting element that is parallel to the measuring tubes. Opposite ends of the internal supporting element are coupled to the inlet manifold and outlet manifold, respectively. The internal supporting element has a thermal transition resistance to the fluid which is lower than the thermal transition resistance of the external support tube to the fluid.