PROCESS MONITORING DEVICE
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240053182A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-15

    申请号:US18258167

    申请日:2021-11-26

    IPC分类号: G01F1/84

    CPC分类号: G01F1/8413 G01F1/8477

    摘要: 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%.

    PROCESS MONITORING DEVICE
    2.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240027248A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-25

    申请号:US18256279

    申请日:2021-11-26

    IPC分类号: G01F1/84

    CPC分类号: G01F1/8418

    摘要: 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.

    CORIOLIS MEASURING TRANSDUCER, AND CORIOLIS MEASURING DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20230384135A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-30

    申请号:US18250118

    申请日:2021-09-23

    IPC分类号: G01F1/84

    CPC分类号: G01F1/8413 G01F1/8477

    摘要: A Coriolis measuring transducer comprises a pair of measuring tubes; an exciter; at least two sensors; and two manifolds. Each measuring tube has a first outer measuring tube bend and a second outer measuring tube bend. Each measuring tube pair has a first group of at least two fixing elements and a second group of at least two fixing elements. The fixing elements have, along the measuring tube centerline, a first separation from outer ends of the measuring tube bends of at most 0.7 bend length. The outer measuring tube bends have, in each case, at least one stiffening element, wherein the stiffening elements are arranged between the groups of fixing elements, wherein the stiffening elements have, in each case, a second separation from an inner end of their measuring tube bend of at least 0.2 bend length.

    Measuring transducer of vibration-type

    公开(公告)号:US11073499B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-27

    申请号:US16302769

    申请日:2017-04-17

    摘要: A measuring transducer includes a support body, a curved oscillatable measuring tube, an electrodynamic exciter, at least one sensor for registering oscillations of the measuring tube, and an operating circuit. The measuring tube has first and second bending oscillation modes, which are mirror symmetric to a measuring tube transverse plane and have first and second media density dependent eigenfrequencies f1, f3 with f3>f1. The measuring tube has a peak secant with an oscillation node in the second mirror symmetric bending oscillation mode. The operating circuit is adapted to drive the exciter conductor loop with a signal exciting the second mirror symmetric bending oscillation mode. The exciter conductor loop has an ohmic resistance RΩ and a mode dependent mutual induction reactance Rg3 which depends on the position of the exciter. The exciter is so positioned that a dimensionless power factor pc 3 = 4 · R Ω · R g ⁢ ⁢ 3 ( R Ω + R g ⁢ ⁢ 3 ) 2 has a value of not less than 0.2.

    MODULAR MEASURING DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE DENSITY OF A MEASUREMENT MEDIUM

    公开(公告)号:US20240151621A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-09

    申请号:US18548943

    申请日:2022-02-21

    IPC分类号: G01N9/32

    CPC分类号: G01N9/32

    摘要: 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.

    METHOD FOR PUTTING A CORIOLIS FLOW METER INTO OPERATION

    公开(公告)号:US20230221157A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-13

    申请号:US17997888

    申请日:2021-04-19

    IPC分类号: G01F1/84

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to a method for putting a Coriolis flow meter into operation, in particular a Coriolis flow meter for pharmaceutical bioprocess applications, the method comprising the method steps of: inserting the measuring tube arrangement into the receptacle of the carrier device; causing the measuring tube to vibrate by means of the excitation signal arriving at the vibration exciter and provided by the operating circuit; determining a measurement value of a state variable that is used as a measure for checking whether the measuring tube in the carrier device is in a steady state; and determining the mass flow rate measurement value when a difference between the measurement value of the state variable and a reference value of a reference variable lies below an upper limit value and exceeds a lower limit value.

    Flow measuring system having transducer temperatures that deviate from measuring point temperatures

    公开(公告)号:US11573111B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-07

    申请号:US16315834

    申请日:2017-06-26

    IPC分类号: G01F1/84 G01F1/86 G01N11/16

    摘要: The measuring system includes a transducer apparatus with two tubes. Each tube is adapted to be flowed through by a fluid from an inlet end toward an outlet end and to be caused to vibrate. An electromechanical exciter mechanism excites and maintains mechanical oscillations of each of the tubes, and a sensor arrangement registers mechanical oscillations of at least one of the tubes. The transducer apparatus includes two temperature sensors each being mechanically and thermally conductively coupled with a wall of the tube, wherein each of the temperature sensors registers a measuring point temperature, and converts such into a temperature measurement signal temperature. A measuring and operating electronics (ME) generates a transducer temperature measured value representing a transducer apparatus temperature so that a magnitude of the transducer temperature measured value is greater than a magnitude of the measuring point temperature and less than a magnitude of the measuring point temperature.

    METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MEASUREMENT TUBE ASSEMBLY FOR A CORIOLIS FLOW METER

    公开(公告)号:US20230012765A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17757297

    申请日:2020-12-01

    IPC分类号: G01F1/84

    摘要: A method for producing a measurement tube assembly for a Coriolis flow meter includes: providing a core assembly and a mold, which define a cavity therebetween, the core assembly a core that includes a core body of a first material; filling the cavity with a second material to form a measurement tube body of the measurement tube assembly, the second material having a higher melting temperature than the first material; separating the mold and the core assembly from the measurement tube assembly melting the at a melting temperature that is below the melting temperature of the second material and above the melting temperature of the first material. The present disclosure further includes a Coriolis flow meter and to a use of a lost-core method to produce a measurement tube assembly.

    VIBRONIC MEASURING SYSTEM FOR MEASURING A MASS FLOW RATE OF A FLUID MEASUREMENT MEDIUM

    公开(公告)号:US20220412785A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-29

    申请号:US17757120

    申请日:2020-11-20

    IPC分类号: G01F1/84 G01R33/00 G01R33/07

    摘要: The measuring system comprises a vibration-type measuring sensor, a sensor housing, a magnetic-field detector, and measuring-system electronics electrically coupled both to an oscillation exciter and to oscillation-sensing devices of the measuring sensor. The measuring sensor is inside the sensor housing and the magnetic-field detector is outside the sensor housing. The magnetic-field detector is designed to convert changes in the magnetic field into a magnetic-field signal having an amplitude dependent on a magnetic flux through the magnetic-field detector and/or on an area density of said magnetic flux. The measuring-system electronics are designed to determine, on the basis of oscillation measurement signals of the measuring sensor, the mass-flow-rate measurement values representing the mass flow rate and to at least qualitatively determine, on the basis of the magnetic-field signal, whether an external magnetic field is established inside the measuring sensor.

    Transducer for a vibronic measuring system and vibronic measuring system formed therewith

    公开(公告)号:US11530967B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-20

    申请号:US16754107

    申请日:2018-09-27

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to a transducer comprising a tube, a converter unit, an electromechanical exciter arrangement for stimulating and sustaining forced mechanical vibrations of the converter unit, and a sensor arrangement for detecting mechanical vibrations of the converter unit and for generating a vibration signal representing mechanical vibrations of the converter unit. The converter unit includes two connection elements connected to a displacer element and is inserted into the tube and connected thereto. The converter unit is configured as to be contacted by a fluid flowing through the tube and enabled to vibrate such that the connection elements and the displacer elements are proportionately elastically deformed. The transducer can be a constituent of a measuring system adapted to measure and/or monitor a flow parameter of the flowing fluid and further includes an electronic measuring and operating system coupled to the exciter arrangement and the sensor arrangement of the transducer.