Field device comprising a mounting bracket adapted for mounting to an attachment surface

US7770858B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VEGA Grieshaber KG · DE

Inventors

• Josef Fehrenbach · Lenzkirch, DE
• Klaus Kienzle · Zell am Harmersbach, DE
• Christian Sum · Wolfach, DE
• Juergen Motzer · Gengenbach, DE
• Thomas Deck · Wolfach, DE
• Juergen Skowaisa · Schiltach, DE
• Holger Sack · Schiltach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 23, 2007
• Grant date: Aug 10, 2010
• Expiry date: Feb 24, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16M2200/024
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A mounting bracket is adapted for mounting a field device, as well as to a field device that for the purpose of attachment to a mounting surface comprises such a mounting bracket. The mounting bracket comprises (a) a first bracket strap which includes a first rotary bearing, (b) a second bracket strap, spaced apart from the first bracket strap by a space, including a second rotary bearing and (c) at least one movable lock on one of the two bracket straps. The rotary bearings are designed to articulate on two opposing sides of a field device that may be arranged in the space so that the field device may be rotated, on an imaginary axis that extends through the space, from a first angle position to a second angle position. The lock is designed to engage the field device in order to in this way resist a torque of the field device in that the lock converts the torque to a pair of forces which is removable by way of one of the rotary bearings and by way of the lock itself.