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).

  • Patent number: 11592133
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Holger Bernhard, Michael Lambrigger, Gebhard Gschwend, Christian Matt
  • Publication number: 20210285588
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Holger Bernhard, Michael Lambrigger, Gebhard Gschwend, Christian Matt
  • Patent number: 11028953
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Holger Bernhard, Michael Lambrigger, Gebhard Gschwend, Christian Matt
  • Patent number: 10620083
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Holger Bernhard
  • Patent number: 10429218
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Holger Bernhard, Michael Lammbrigger, Gebhard Gschwend, Christian Matt
  • Patent number: 10309866
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: ENDRESS + HAUSER FLOWTEC AG
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Holger Bernhard
  • Publication number: 20180313487
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Holger Bernhard, Michael Lambrigger, Gebhard Gschwend, Christian Matt
  • Publication number: 20170219398
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Holger Bernhard, Michael Lammbrigger, Gebhard Gschwend, Christian Matt
  • Publication number: 20160138997
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Holger Bernhard
  • Publication number: 20160123836
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Hao Zhu, Alfred Rieder, Holger Bernhard
  • Patent number: 8099850
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard
  • Patent number: 7631561
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard
  • Patent number: 7610795
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Holger Bernhard, Christian Schuetze
  • Publication number: 20090235759
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard
  • Patent number: 7555962
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard
  • Patent number: 7546777
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard
  • Patent number: 7350422
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Holger Bernhard
  • Publication number: 20070234823
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard
  • Publication number: 20070234822
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard
  • Publication number: 20070234824
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Rainer Lorenz, Holger Bernhard