Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vibration-type fluid flow-rate measuring system having temperature compensation
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Application No.: US16315826Application Date: 2017-06-26
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Publication No.: US10942058B2Publication Date: 2021-03-09
- Inventor: Alfred Rieder , Gerhard Eckert , Ennio Bitto , Hao Zhu
- Applicant: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
- Applicant Address: CH Reinach
- Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
- Current Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
- Current Assignee Address: CH Reinach
- Agency: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC
- Priority: DE102016112599.7 20160708
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/065625 WO 20170626
- International Announcement: WO2018/007176 WO 20180111
- Main IPC: G01F1/84
- IPC: G01F1/84 ; G01F25/00 ; G01F15/02 ; G01N11/16 ; G01N9/00

Abstract:
The measuring system comprises a transducer apparatus with two tubes, each having a lumen surrounded by a wall. A fluid flows through each tube, while the tube is vibrated. An electromechanical-exciter mechanism 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 a respective one of the tubes and adapted to register a measuring point temperature and to convert such into a temperature measurement signal. A measuring- and operating electronics is adapted, with application of the temperature measurement signals, to generate a transducer temperature measured value, which represents a transducer apparatus temperature, which deviates both from each of the measuring point temperatures, such that a magnitude of the transducer temperature measured value is between the measuring point temperatures.
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