Patents by Inventor Holger Bernhard
Holger Bernhard 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: 11592133Abstract: An adapter includes several connecting nozzles. Free nozzle ends of the connecting nozzles are adapted to be connected to line ends of fluid lines. The adapter includes, for guiding flowing fluid in and then out, two mutually separated, tubular flow channels. Moreover, the adapter includes a projection, which extends from the nozzle end with a length to a free projection end remote therefrom. A fluid line system formed by means of the adapter comprises, furthermore, a fluid line with, enveloped by a wall, a lumen. The fluid line can be connected with its line end to the connecting nozzle of the adapter in such a manner that the projection protrudes inwardly into the lumen of the fluid line to form two tubular chambers of the fluid line mutually separated by the projection and adapted for guiding through flowing fluid.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Holger Bernhard, Michael Lambrigger, Gebhard Gschwend, Christian Matt
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Publication number: 20210285588Abstract: An adapter includes several connecting nozzles. Free nozzle ends of the connecting nozzles are adapted to be connected to line ends of fluid lines. The adapter includes, for guiding flowing fluid in and then out, two mutually separated, tubular flow channels. Moreover, the adapter includes a projection, which extends from the nozzle end with a length to a free projection end remote therefrom. A fluid line system formed by means of the adapter comprises, furthermore, a fluid line with, enveloped by a wall, a lumen. The fluid line can be connected with its line end to the connecting nozzle of the adapter in such a manner that the projection protrudes inwardly into the lumen of the fluid line to form two tubular chambers of the fluid line mutually separated by the projection and adapted for guiding through flowing fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Holger Bernhard, Michael Lambrigger, Gebhard Gschwend, Christian Matt
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Patent number: 11028953Abstract: An adapter includes several connecting nozzles. Free nozzle ends of the connecting nozzles are adapted to be connected to line ends of fluid lines. The adapter includes, for guiding flowing fluid in and then out, two mutually separated, tubular flow channels. Moreover, the adapter includes a projection, which extends from the nozzle end with a length to a free projection end remote therefrom. A fluid line system formed by means of the adapter comprises, furthermore, a fluid line with, enveloped by a wall, a lumen. The fluid line can be connected with its line end to the connecting nozzle of the adapter in such a manner that the projection protrudes inwardly into the lumen of the fluid line to form two tubular chambers of the fluid line mutually separated by the projection and adapted for guiding through flowing fluid.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Holger Bernhard, Michael Lambrigger, Gebhard Gschwend, Christian Matt
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Patent number: 10620083Abstract: Method for monitoring and/or checking a pressure device having a lumen surrounded by a wall for conveying and/or storing a fluid. For such purpose, the method comprises a step of registering a strain, of the wall, by means of a strain gage, respectively a strain sensor formed therewith, affixed outwardly on the wall, for ascertaining a strain value representing the strain of the wall, as well as a step of using the strain value for ascertaining damage to the wall, as a result of plastic deformation of the wall and/or as a result of wear of the wall. A measuring system of the invention comprises supplementally to the pressure device at least one strain sensor affixed on a wall segment of the wall for producing a strain signal dependent on a time variable strain, of the wall segment as well as a transmitter electronics electrically coupled with the strain sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AGInventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Holger Bernhard
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Patent number: 10429218Abstract: A measuring system for measuring at least one measured variable of a flowing fluid, comprises a fluid supply line, a transducer apparatus, which has a tube and at least one other tube and is adapted to deliver at least one measurement signal corresponding to the at least one measured variable, a fluid return line, and a fluid withdrawal line. To open a first flow path, which leads from the lumen of the fluid supply line to the lumen of the tube, further to the lumen of the tube and further to the lumen of the fluid return line, equally as well not to the lumen of the fluid withdrawal line, and thereafter to allow fluid to flow along the flow path for the maintaining the temperature and/or for cleaning of parts of the measuring system and/or for conditioning fluid.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AGInventors: Holger Bernhard, Michael Lammbrigger, Gebhard Gschwend, Christian Matt
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Patent number: 10309866Abstract: The method serves for monitoring and/or checking a pressure device having a lumen surrounded by a wall for conveying and/or storing a fluid. To this end, the method comprises a step of registering both a strain of a first wall segment as well as also a strain of at least a second wall segment spaced from the first wall segment, for ascertaining a strain deviation value representing a difference between the strain of the first wall segment and the strain of the second wall segment, as well as a step of using the strain deviation value for ascertaining damage to the wall, as a result of plastic deformation of the wall and/or as a result of wear of the wall.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AGInventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Holger Bernhard
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Publication number: 20180313487Abstract: An adapter comprises a connecting nozzle, a connecting nozzle as well as a connecting nozzle. The free nozzle ends of the connecting nozzles are adapted to be connected to line ends of fluid lines. The adapter includes, for guiding flowing fluid in and then out, two mutually separated, tubular flow channels, of which a flow channel extends from a flow opening located in the free nozzle end of the connecting nozzle to a flow opening located in the free nozzle end of the connecting nozzle and a flow channel extends from a flow opening located in the free nozzle end of the connecting nozzle to a flow opening located in the free nozzle end. Moreover, the adapter includes, bordering on a region of the free nozzle end located between the flow openings a projection, which extends from the nozzle end with a length to a free projection end remote therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2016Publication date: November 1, 2018Inventors: Holger Bernhard, Michael Lambrigger, Gebhard Gschwend, Christian Matt
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Publication number: 20170219398Abstract: A measuring system for measuring at least one measured variable of a flowing fluid, comprises a fluid supply line, a transducer apparatus, which has a tube and at least one other tube and is adapted to deliver at least one measurement signal corresponding to the at least one measured variable, a fluid return line, and a fluid withdrawal line. To open a first flow path, which leads from the lumen of the fluid supply line to the lumen of the tube, further to the lumen of the tube and further to the lumen of the fluid return line, equally as well not to the lumen of the fluid withdrawal line, and thereafter to allow fluid to flow along the flow path for the maintaining the temperature and/or for cleaning of parts of the measuring system and/or for conditioning fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventors: Holger Bernhard, Michael Lammbrigger, Gebhard Gschwend, Christian Matt
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Publication number: 20160138997Abstract: The method serves for monitoring and/or checking a pressure device having a lumen surrounded by a wall for conveying and/or storing a fluid. To this end, the method comprises a step of registering both a strain of a first wall segment as well as also a strain of at least a second wall segment spaced from the first wall segment, for ascertaining a strain deviation value representing a difference between the strain of the first wall segment and the strain of the second wall segment, as well as a step of using the strain deviation value for ascertaining damage to the wall, as a result of plastic deformation of the wall and/or as a result of wear of the wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Holger Bernhard
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Publication number: 20160123836Abstract: Method for monitoring and/or checking a pressure device having a lumen surrounded by a wall for conveying and/or storing a fluid. For such purpose, the method comprises a step of registering a strain, of the wall, by means of a strain gage, respectively a strain sensor formed therewith, affixed outwardly on the wall, for ascertaining a strain value representing the strain of the wall, as well as a step of using the strain value for ascertaining damage to the wall, as a result of plastic deformation of the wall and/or as a result of wear of the wall. A measuring system of the invention comprises supplementally to the pressure device at least one strain sensor affixed on a wall segment of the wall for producing a strain signal dependent on a time variable strain, of the wall segment as well as a transmitter electronics electrically coupled with the strain sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Holger Bernhard
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Patent number: 8099850Abstract: The measuring transducer includes at least one measuring tube communicating with a line connected during operation for conveying a medium to be measured, and a support element oscillatably holding the at least one measuring tube. Additionally, it is provided that the support element contains at least two passageways, via which the at least one measuring tube communicates with the line, and that the at least one measuring tube is affixed, especially releasably, at least one end to the support element by means of a screwed-fitting at one of the passageways. Alternatively or in supplementation thereof, it is further provided that the at least one measuring tube is, at least in part, made of cold-strengthened, for instance cold-stretched or autofrettaged, material.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2009Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard
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Patent number: 7631561Abstract: The measuring transducer includes at least one measuring tube communicating with a line connected during operation for conveying a medium to be measured, and a support element oscillatably holding the at least one measuring tube. Additionally, it is provided that the support element contains at least two passageways, via which the at least one measuring tube communicates with the line, and that the at least one measuring tube is affixed, especially releasably, at at least one end to the support element by means of a screwed-fitting at one of the passageways. Alternatively or in supplementation thereof, it is further provided that the at least one measuring tube is, at least in part, made of cold-strengthened, for instance cold-stretched or autofrettaged, material.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2007Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard
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Patent number: 7610795Abstract: A method serves to adjust a mechanical natural frequency of a hollow body which at least partly comprises a ductile material, in particular a pickup housing of a measurement pickup or a measurement pipe of a measurement pickup. A static external pressure of an atmosphere surrounding the hollow body and/or a static internal pressure prevailing in a lumen of the hollow body, the lumen being sealed off substantially in a pressuretight fashion, is varied in order to generate a pressure difference between the lumen and the atmosphere surrounding the hollow body. The pressure difference is adjusted to a value that causes the material of the hollow body to expand, and at least a proportion of the material of the hollow body is made to flow under the influence of the pressure difference for plastically deforming the material. The method can readily be integrated into already-established pressure tests for measurement pickups of the vibrational type.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2004Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Holger Bernhard, Christian Schuetze
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Publication number: 20090235759Abstract: The measuring transducer includes at least one measuring tube communicating with a line connected during operation for conveying a medium to be measured, and a support element oscillatably holding the at least one measuring tube. Additionally, it is provided that the support element contains at least two passageways, via which the at least one measuring tube communicates with the line, and that the at least one measuring tube is affixed, especially releasably, at least one end to the support element by means of a screwed-fitting at one of the passageways. Alternatively or in supplementation thereof, it is further provided that the at least one measuring tube is, at least in part, made of cold-strengthened, for instance cold-stretched or autofrettaged, material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2009Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard
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Patent number: 7555962Abstract: The measuring transducer includes at least one measuring tube communicating with a line connected during operation for conveying a medium to be measured, and a support element oscillatably holding the at least one measuring tube. Additionally, it is provided that the support element contains at least two passageways, via which the at least one measuring tube communicates with the line, and that the at least one measuring tube is affixed, especially releasably, at at least one end to the support element by means of a screwed-fitting at one of the passageways. Alternatively or in supplementation thereof, it is further provided that the at least one measuring tube is, at least in part, made of cold-strengthened, for instance cold-stretched or autofrettaged, material.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2007Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard
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Patent number: 7546777Abstract: The measuring transducer includes at least one measuring tube communicating with a line connected during operation for conveying a medium to be measured, and a support element oscillatably holding the at least one measuring tube. Additionally, it is provided that the support element contains at least two passageways, via which the at least one measuring tube communicates with the line, and that the at least one measuring tube is affixed, especially releasably, at at least one end to the support element by means of a screwed-fitting at one of the passageways. Alternatively or in supplementation thereof, it is further provided that the at least one measuring tube is, at least in part, made of cold-strengthened, for instance cold-stretched or autofrettaged, material.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2007Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard
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Patent number: 7350422Abstract: A measurement pickup includes at least four measuring tubes for conveying media to be measured. Each measuring tube has a first in-/outlet end and a second in-/outlet end. During operation, the measuring tubes vibrate, at least at times, especially simultaneously. The measurement pickup further includes an electromechanical exciter mechanism causing the measuring tube to vibrate, as well as a sensor arrangement reacting at least to local vibrations of the measuring tubes for producing at least one measurement signal influenced by vibrations of the measuring tubes.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2006Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Holger Bernhard
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Publication number: 20070234823Abstract: The measuring transducer includes at least one measuring tube communicating with a line connected during operation for conveying a medium to be measured, and a support element oscillatably holding the at least one measuring tube. Additionally, it is provided that the support element contains at least two passageways, via which the at least one measuring tube communicates with the line, and that the at least one measuring tube is affixed, especially releasably, at at least one end to the support element by means of a screwed-fitting at one of the passageways. Alternatively or in supplementation thereof, it is further provided that the at least one measuring tube is, at least in part, made of cold-strengthened, for instance cold-stretched or autofrettaged, material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2007Publication date: October 11, 2007Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard
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Publication number: 20070234822Abstract: The measuring transducer includes at least one measuring tube communicating with a line connected during operation for conveying a medium to be measured, and a support element oscillatably holding the at least one measuring tube. Additionally, it is provided that the support element contains at least two passageways, via which the at least one measuring tube communicates with the line, and that the at least one measuring tube is affixed, especially releasably, at at least one end to the support element by means of a screwed-fitting at one of the passageways. Alternatively or in supplementation thereof, it is further provided that the at least one measuring tube is, at least in part, made of cold-strengthened, for instance cold-stretched or autofrettaged, material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2007Publication date: October 11, 2007Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard
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Publication number: 20070234824Abstract: The measuring transducer includes at least one measuring tube communicating with a line connected during operation for conveying a medium to be measured, and a support element oscillatably holding the at least one measuring tube. Additionally, it is provided that the support element contains at least two passageways, via which the at least one measuring tube communicates with the line, and that the at least one measuring tube is affixed, especially releasably, at at least one end to the support element by means of a screwed-fitting at one of the passageways. Alternatively or in supplementation thereof, it is further provided that the at least one measuring tube is, at least in part, made of cold-strengthened, for instance cold-stretched or autofrettaged, material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2007Publication date: October 11, 2007Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard