In-line measuring device

US7296484B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG · CH

Inventors

• Alfred Rieder · Landshut, DE
• Wolfgang Drahm · Erding, DE
• Michael Fuchs · Bad Wörishofen, DE
• Hans-Jörg Sprich · Schopfheim, DE
• Ibho Itin · Liestal, CH
• Samuel Wyss · Basel, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 2006
• Grant date: Nov 20, 2007
• Expiry date: Oct 31, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2009/006
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An inline measuring device includes a vibration-type measurement pickup having at least one measuring tube, which has a medium to be measured flowing through it during operation. The measuring tube is made by means of an exciter arrangement to execute, at least at times and/or at least in part, lateral oscillations and, at least at times and/or at least in part, torsional oscillations about an imaginary measuring tube longitudinal axis. The torsional oscillations alternate with the lateral oscillations or are, at times, superimposed thereon. Also included is a sensor arrangement for producing oscillation measurement signals correspondingly representing oscillations of the measuring tube. Measuring device electronics controlling the exciter arrangement generates, by means of at least one of the oscillation measurement signals and/or by means of the exciter current, at least at times, at least one measured value, which represents the at least one physical quantity to be measured. Additionally, the measuring device electronics also determines a first intermediate value, which corresponds to the lateral current component of the exciter current serving to maintain the lateral oscillatio…