Device and method for volume determination

US6601000B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Bartec Logistic Management GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Reinhold Barlian · Bad Mergentheim, DE
• Alfred Boehm · Naila, DE
• Gerd Boehm · Bad Kötzting, DE
• Johann Bretzendorfer · Deggendorf, DE
• Alfons Brueggemann · Spelle, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 13, 2001
• Grant date: Jul 29, 2003
• Expiry date: Feb 13, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01F23/72
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device for conveying a medium from a container to a tank and for determining the quantity of the medium, having a conduit between the container and the tank, a conveying device connected to the conduit and a device for separating gas from the medium, the device for separating the gas and the tank forming an integrated unit, a filling level measuring device being provided substantially in the interior of the tank for determining the position of at least one boundary surface of the medium in the tank and the filling level measuring device has at least one dipstick. Method for conveying a medium from a container into a tank and for determining the quantity of the medium, in which the medium is transported via a conveying device and a conduit and gas absorbed by the medium is separated, gas separation at least partly taking place in the tank and the filling level in the tank is measured by a filling level measuring device.