Vibratory transducer

US7017424B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG · CH

Inventors

• Alfred Rieder · Landshut, DE
• Wolfgang Drahm · Erding, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 8, 2003
• Grant date: Mar 28, 2006
• Expiry date: Feb 11, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2203/0676
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

To conduct a fluid, the transducer has a flow tube which in operation is vibrated by an excitation assembly and whose inlet-side and outlet-side vibrations are sensed by means of a sensor arrangement. To produce shear forces in the fluid, the flow tube is at least intermittently excited into torsional vibrations about a longitudinal flow-tube axis. The transducer further comprises a torsional vibration absorber which is fixed to the flow tube and which in operation covibrates with the torsionally vibrating flow tube, thus producing reactive torques which at least partially balance torques developed in the vibrating flow tube. One of the advantages of the transducer disclosed is that it is dynamically balanced to a large extent even in the face of variations in fluid density or viscosity.