Patents by Inventor Marc WERNER

Marc WERNER 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: 20250067379
    Abstract: A fluid line system includes a fitting having a lumen extending from first and second flow openings to a third flow opening located in a remote fitting end; first and second fluid lines, each having a lumen; and a flow-conditioner element inserted into the lumen of the fitting and non-detachably connected thereto and has first and second flow channels connected fluidically in parallel. Each of the two flow channels of the flow-conditioner element extends from a first flow opening located in a region of its element end to a second flow opening located in a region of its opposite element end, and the flow-conditioner element is positioned and oriented in the fitting such that a first flow path includes both the first flow channel and the first fluid line, and a second flow path includes both the second flow channel and the second fluid line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Severin Ramseyer, Christian Schütze, Marc Werner
  • Patent number: 12228442
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a Coriolis measuring transmitter of a Coriolis measuring device for measuring a mass flow or a density of a medium flowing through a pipe, which includes: at least one pair of measuring tubes arranged to oscillate relative to each other, wherein each measuring tube includes a centrally arranged bend, at least one driver and at least two vibration sensors; two guiding devices, each including a fluid chamber with a first opening for connection with the pipe and second openings for each measuring tube for connection with the measuring tubes, wherein the guiding devices are each formed from multiple parts, for example, formed from two parts, wherein a first part forms a pipe connecting part, and wherein at least one second part forms a measuring tube connecting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Markus Schütz, Vivek Kumar, Mattia Alioli
  • Publication number: 20250012693
    Abstract: A connection unit for at least one vibration-tube module of a modular measuring device for determining the density of a measurement medium includes: a measurement-medium inlet, which extends along a first axis; a measurement-medium outlet, which extends along a second axis; at least a first vibration-tube inlet, which is fluidically connected to the measurement-medium inlet; and at least a first vibration-tube outlet, which is fluidically connected to the measurement-medium outlet, wherein the measurement-medium inlet and the measurement-medium outlet are opposite each other such that they are separated with respect to a first plane and are mechanically connected to each other by at least one support unit, and wherein the first axis and the second axis each form an angle of greater than 45° to the first plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Markus Schütz
  • Publication number: 20240410731
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Christian Schütze, Marc Werner, Ennio Bitto, Dieter Mundschin
  • Patent number: 12163614
    Abstract: A flow divider comprises a lumen having perpendicular, symmetry planes intersecting in an axis of inertia connecting the ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Mattia Alioli, Vivek Kumar, Marc Werner, Natalie Schlachter
  • Patent number: 12009143
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of producing a coil device of an oscillation sensor or oscillation exciter of a measuring transducer or an instrument for measuring a density or a mass flow of a medium flowing through at least one measuring tube of the measuring transducer or instrument, to a coil device, to a measuring transducer, and to an instrument, wherein in a first method step a first end of an electrical connection line of the coil device is surrounded in a depression of a circuit board of the coil device with a metal microparticle paste, wherein in a second method step the metal microparticle paste is dried, wherein the drying process results in a hardening of the metal microparticle paste, so that a metal microparticle mass remains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger
  • Publication number: 20240151621
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner
  • Patent number: 11971283
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a coil apparatus of an oscillation sensor or exciter of a measuring transducer or a measuring instrument for measuring a density or a mass flow of a medium flowing through a measuring tube, comprising: a circuit board, at least one coil adapted for registering or producing a time varying magnetic field, wherein the at least one coil has a first coil end and a second coil end, wherein the coil apparatus has four contacting elements, wherein the circuit board has a cutting plane extending perpendicularly to the faces, wherein the cutting plane divides the faces into a first side and a second side, wherein one contacting element of a pair of contacting elements is arranged on the first side, and wherein one contacting element of a pair of contacting elements is arranged on the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Claude Hollinger, Marc Werner
  • Patent number: 11953359
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coil apparatus of an oscillation sensor or exciter of a measuring transducer or a measuring device for measuring a density or mass flow of a medium flowing through a measuring tube of the measuring transducer or measuring device, comprising: a circuit board having a circuit board layer, at least one coil registering or producing a time varying magnetic field, wherein the coil has a winding region and a central region lacking turns of a winding, wherein the central region of a coil has a rectangular shape with oppositely lying, first sides and with oppositely lying, second sides, wherein the first sides have a first side length, and wherein the second sides have a second side length, wherein the electrically conductive trace has a trace breadth of at least 30 micrometer, wherein a ratio of first side length to second side length is greater than 3.25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Severin Ramseyer, Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger, Martin Stucki
  • Patent number: 11933806
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a measuring transducer of a measurement device for registering a mass flow or a density of a medium The measuring transducer includes a measuring tube, at least one exciter adapted to excite the measuring tube to execute oscillations, and two sensors adapted to register deflection of oscillations of the measuring tube. The exciter and the sensors each have a coil device including a circuit board with a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The coil device of the sensors or exciter are/is secured using a holder apparatus adapted to clamp the circuit board, wherein the circuit board is mechanically contacted by the holder apparatus using at least one holder element, wherein the holder element has a second coefficient of thermal expansion, wherein the first coefficient of thermal expansion and the second coefficient of thermal expansion differ from one another by less than 3*10?6/Kelvin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger, Martin Stucki
  • Patent number: 11906339
    Abstract: The invention relates to a Coriolis measuring transducer of a Coriolis measuring device comprising: at least one measuring tube; at least one exciter; at least two sensors; wherein at least one exciter or at least one sensor has a coil device and a magnet device, wherein the magnet device has a holder and at least a first magnet group and at least a second magnet group, wherein the holder has a body with a body length axis and a first end and a second end wherein the first end has an end surface, wherein the body has three recesses, wherein a central recess is separated, in each case, from an outer recess by, in each case, an intermediate wall, wherein each intermediate wall has an opening, and wherein the first magnet group is arranged in a first opening, and wherein the second magnet group is arranged in a second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Claude Hollinger, Gebhard Gschwend
  • Publication number: 20240053182
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Ennio Bitto, Marc Werner
  • Publication number: 20240027251
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Johan Pohl
  • Publication number: 20240027250
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Ennio Bitto, Walter Kamber, Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner
  • Publication number: 20240027248
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Robert Lalla, Samuel Neeser, Martin Josef Anklin, Ennio Bitto, Ruben Kiefer, Marc Werner
  • Publication number: 20240003726
    Abstract: A measuring transducer includes: a measuring tube arrangement having at least one measuring tube for conveying a flowable medium; at least a first exciter component of an oscillation exciter for exciting the at least one measuring tube to execute oscillations; at least a first sensor component of an oscillation sensor for registering oscillations of the at least one measuring tube; a fixing body arrangement, which is connected with the at least one measuring tube and via which a releasable connection with a support apparatus can be made; a connecting apparatus for releasable connecting of the measuring tube arrangement with a process line; and a fastener apparatus for forming a shape-interlocking and/or force-interlocking connection between the connecting apparatus and the fixing body arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner, Markus Schütz
  • Publication number: 20230408314
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a modular measuring device including: a measuring tube module, wherein the measuring tube module includes a fixing body arrangement; an oscillation exciter; at least one oscillation sensor; and a support module including a seat, wherein the measuring tube module is arrangeable in the seat of the support module, wherein the support module includes a fixing apparatus, wherein the fixing apparatus includes an at least sectionally eccentrically embodied shaft, wherein the fixing apparatus, especially the shaft, is adapted to clamp the measuring tube module via the fixing body arrangement in the seat and to connect the measuring tube module mechanically releasably with the support module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Christian Schütze, Benjamin Schwenter, Marc Werner
  • Publication number: 20230411056
    Abstract: The coil comprises a coil carrier, a coil wire at least partially surrounded by an insulating layer and wound around the coil carrier, as well as a protective cover layer at least partially covering the coil wire wound around the coil carrier. The coil wire is composed, at least partially, of silver, the insulating layer surrounding the coil wire is composed, at least partially, of a ceramic material, and the protective cover layer is composed, at least partially, of a ceramic material and/or a glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Claude Hollinger, Marc Werner, Martin Stucki
  • Publication number: 20230408013
    Abstract: A flow divider comprises a lumen having perpendicular, symmetry planes intersecting in an axis of inertia connecting the ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Mattia Alioli, Vivek Kumar, Marc Werner, Natalie Schlachter
  • Patent number: 11835375
    Abstract: Disclosed is a measuring sensor of a measuring device for detecting a mass flow rate. The measuring sensor comprises a measuring tube, a vibration exciter, and at least two vibration sensors. The vibration exciter and the vibration sensors each have a coil apparatus having at least one coil and at least one magnetic apparatus. The coil apparatus comprises a printed circuit board having at least one printed circuit board layer, wherein the coil is formed by means of an electrically conductive conductor track, wherein the coil is arranged on the first side and/or second side of a printed circuit board layer, wherein the printed circuit board comprises at least two contact-making elements for connecting the coil to an electronic measuring and/or operating circuit of the measuring device by means of connection elements, and is characterized in that at least one contact-making element has a hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwenter, Martin Stucki, Claude Hollinger, Marc Werner