公开(公告)号：US20250067379A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-27

申请号：US18725955

申请日：2022-12-12

Applicant: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG

Inventor： Benjamin Schwenter ,  Severin Ramseyer ,  Christian Schütze ,  Marc Werner

IPC: F16L41/00 ,  G01F15/18 ,  G01K13/02 ,  G01N9/24 ,  G01N11/00

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.

公开(公告)号：US20240410731A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-12

申请号：US18690356

申请日：2022-08-10

Applicant: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG

Inventor： Benjamin Schwenter ,  Christian Schütze ,  Marc Werner ,  Ennio Bitto ,  Dieter Mundschin

IPC: G01F1/84

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.

公开(公告)号：US20230408315A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-21

申请号：US18254779

申请日：2021-10-28

Applicant: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG

Inventor： Benjamin Schwenter ,  Ennio Bitto

IPC: G01F1/84

CPC classification number: G01F1/8422 ,  G01F1/8427

Abstract: A Coriolis flow meter, includes: a measuring tube arrangement with at least one measuring tube and a fixing body arrangement; at least one oscillation exciter and at least one oscillation sensor; a support apparatus with seat and fixing apparatus, wherein the fixing apparatus has at least one swingable fixing element, wherein the fixing apparatus is adapted to connect the measuring tube arrangement, for example, the at least one measuring tube, via the fixing body arrangement mechanically releasably with the support apparatus body, wherein the at least one fixing element is adapted in the case of connecting the measuring tube arrangement with the support apparatus body to exert a bending force on the fixing body arrangement for elastically bending the fixing body arrangement.

公开(公告)号：US11796364B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-24

申请号：US17413449

申请日：2019-11-21

Applicant: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG

Inventor： Benjamin Schwenter ,  Marc Werner ,  Claude Hollinger ,  Gebhard Gschwend

IPC: G01F1/84

CPC classification number: G01F1/8427 ,  G01F1/8422 ,  G01F1/8431 ,  G01F1/8477

Abstract: The invention relates to a Coriolis measuring sensor for detecting a mass flow rate or a density of a medium flowing through a measurement tube of the Coriolis measuring instrument. The measurement tube has an inlet and an outlet designed to convey the medium between the inlet and the outlet; an exciter; and two sensors; the measuring sensor comprising a supporting element having a chamber designed to house the measurement tube at least in portions. The magnet device comprises a magnetically conductive holder for magnets and a first pair of magnets arranged on the holder on a first face of the coil device, with the magnets designed to cause a magnetic field perpendicularly to a cross-sectional plane of the coil, and the magnetic field of a first magnet of the pair is oriented so as to be opposite to the magnetic field of a second magnet of the pair.

公开(公告)号：US20220316929A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-06

申请号：US17599270

申请日：2020-02-14

Applicant: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG

Inventor： Benjamin Schwenter ,  Marc Werner ,  Claude Hollinger ,  Gebhard Gschwend

IPC: G01F1/84

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.

公开(公告)号：US11365997B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-21

申请号：US16978212

申请日：2019-03-06

Applicant: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG

Inventor： Severin Ramseyer ,  Benjamin Schwenter

IPC: G01F1/84 ,  G01N9/32

Abstract: A Coriolis measuring device for measuring volume flow or density of a medium flowing through a measuring tube is disclosed, the device comprising: the measuring tube for conveying the medium; at least one exciter, which is adapted to excite the measuring tube to execute oscillations; at least one sensor, which is adapted to register the oscillations of the measuring tube; an electronic measuring/operating circuit, which is adapted to operate the exciter as well as the sensor and to determine and to output flow and/or density measurement values; wherein the electronic measuring/operating circuit has an electronics board, wherein at least one exciter has a stationary exciter element, and/or wherein at least one sensor has a stationary sensor element, wherein at least one stationary exciter element and/or at least one stationary sensor element is integrated into the electronics board.

公开(公告)号：US20200340841A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-29

申请号：US16958942

申请日：2018-12-17

Applicant: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG

Inventor： Benjamin Schwenter ,  Christof Huber ,  Christian Schütze ,  Achim Wiest

IPC: G01F1/84 ,  G01N9/00

Abstract: A vibratory measuring device for determining a mass flow rate or a density of a flowable medium comprises: a vibratory measuring tube which is curved when in the idle position thereof; a support body; a first bearing body on the inlet side; a second bearing body on the outlet side; two exciter units and two sensor units; and an operation and evaluation circuit. The bearing bodies are connected to the support body, wherein the measuring tube is supported on the bearing bodies in such a way that flexural vibration modes of the measuring tube have vibration nodes on the bearing bodies, wherein the exciter units are each configured, according to excitation signals, to excite flexural vibrations of the measuring tube both in the measuring tube plane and perpendicular to the measuring tube plane, wherein the sensor units are each configured to detect flexural vibrations of the measuring tube both in the measuring tube plane and perpendicular to the measuring tube plane and to output vibration-dependent sensor signals, wherein the operation and evaluation circuit is configured to output excitation signals to the excitation units for the selective excitation of flexural vibration modes and to receive the sensor signals of the sensor units.

公开(公告)号：US10801870B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-13

申请号：US16618707

申请日：2018-05-08

Applicant: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG

Inventor： Christof Huber ,  Christian Schütze ,  Dieter Mundschin ,  Benjamin Schwenter ,  Severin Ramseyer ,  Marc Werner

IPC: G01F1/84 ,  G01F15/18 ,  G01F25/00

Abstract: A mass flow sensor includes: a vibratory measurement tube bent in a tube plane; a vibration exciter for exciting bending vibrations in a bending vibration use-mode; two vibration sensors for sensing vibrations; a support system having a support plate, bearing bodies on the inlet and sides; and a sensor housing, wherein: the support system has support system vibration modes which include elastic deformations of the support plate; the measurement tube is connected fixedly to the support plate by the bearing body on the inlet side and by the bearing body on the outlet side; and the support plate has a number of spring-loaded bearings exposed through cut-outs in the support plate by which the support plate is mounted on the sensor housing with degrees of vibrational freedom, the natural frequencies of which are lower than a use-mode natural frequency of the bending vibration use-mode.

公开(公告)号：US12009143B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-11

申请号：US17266980

申请日：2019-07-30

Applicant: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG

Inventor： Benjamin Schwenter ,  Marc Werner ,  Claude Hollinger

IPC: H01F27/28 ,  G01F1/84 ,  G01N9/00 ,  H01F41/04

CPC classification number: H01F27/2804 ,  G01F1/8422 ,  G01F1/8427 ,  G01N9/002 ,  H01F41/043

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.

公开(公告)号：US11953359B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-09

申请号：US17268878

申请日：2019-07-30

Applicant: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG

Inventor： Severin Ramseyer ,  Benjamin Schwenter ,  Marc Werner ,  Claude Hollinger ,  Martin Stucki

IPC: G01F1/84 ,  G01N9/00 ,  H01F27/28

CPC classification number: G01F1/8422 ,  G01F1/8427 ,  G01N9/002 ,  H01F27/2804 ,  G01N2009/006 ,  H01F2027/2809

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.