Abstract:
The invention relates to a vibration-type sensor (13), in particular for detecting and/or monitoring at least one processing variable of a flowable medium being conducted in a pipeline, said measuring sensor (13) comprising at least the following: a housing module (3), which is mechanically coupled to the pipeline via an inlet-side end and an outlet-side end, and a sensor module (7) with at least one measuring pipe (9a, 9b), which is held at least partly in the housing module (3) in a vibratable manner and which is at least temporarily vibrated, wherein at least one component of the housing module (3) and/or the sensor module (7) is produced by means of a generative method. The invention also relates to a method for producing at least one component of a vibration-type sensor (13), said method at least having the step of producing the at least one component using a digital data set, which specifies at least the shape and/or the material and/or the structure of the at least one component, by means of a primary forming process, in particular by placing and/or melting a powder in layers, in particular a metal powder.
Abstract:
The measuring system according to the invention comprises a vibration-type measuring transducer, through which the medium flows during operation and which is intended to generate oscillation signals that are dependent on a viscosity of the flowing medium and/or on a Reynolds number of the flowing medium, and transducer electronics which are electrically coupled to the measuring transducer and are intended to drive the measuring transducer and to evaluate oscillation signals provided by the measuring transducer. The measuring transducer has an inlet-side flow divider (20 1 ) with at least two flow openings (20 1A , 20 1B ) which are at a distance from one another, an outlet-side flow divider (20 2 ) with at least two flow openings (20 2A , 20 2B ) which are at a distance from one another, at least two straight measuring tubes (18 1 , 18 2 ) which are parallel to one another, are connected to the flow dividers (20 1 , 20 2 ) so as to form a tube arrangement with at least two flow paths connected in parallel in terms of flow technology and are intended to guide flowing medium, and an electromechanical exciter arrangement (4) for exciting and maintaining mechanical oscillations of the at least two measuring tubes (18 1 , 18 2 ). An inlet-side measuring tube end of each of the at least two measuring tubes opens into a flow opening (20 1A ) of the inlet-side flow divider (20 1 ) and an outlet-side, second measuring tube end of each of said measuring tubes opens into a flow opening (20 2A ) of the outlet-side flow divider (20 2 ). The transducer electronics use one of the electrical driver signals supplied to the exciter arrangement to feed electrical exciter power into the exciter arrangement, while the exciter arrangement at least proportionately converts electrical exciter power into mirror-image torsional oscillations of the at least two measuring tubes (18 1 , 18 2 ).