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20110094309 | METHOD AND MEASURING SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AND/OR MONITORING FLOW OF A MEASURED MEDIUM IN A MEASURING TUBE - Measuring system and method for determining and/or monitoring flow of a measured medium through a measuring tube with a first ultrasonic sensor and at least a second ultrasonic sensor, wherein the first ultrasonic sensor has at least one electromechanical ultrasonic transducer element and is placeable in a first region of the measuring tube, and wherein the second ultrasonic sensor has at least two electromechanical ultrasonic transducer elements and is placeable in a second region of the measuring tube in such a manner, that the ultrasonic signals transmittable through the measured medium from the first ultrasonic sensor are receivable by the second ultrasonic sensor, and that the ultrasonic signals transmittable through the measured medium from the second ultrasonic sensor are receivable by the first ultrasonic sensor, and with at least one control/evaluation unit, which, on the basis of the ultrasonic-measuring signals, or on the basis of measurement data, which are derived from the ultrasonic measuring signals, ascertains the volume flow and/or the mass flow of the measured medium flowing in the measuring tube by means of a travel-time difference method. During a diagnostic phase, ultrasonic signals are transmitted from the first ultrasonic sensor through the measured medium to the second ultrasonic sensor, and at least one process variable is ascertained and/or derived from the received ultrasonic signals for each electromechanical ultrasonic transducer element of the second ultrasonic sensor, and the electromechanical ultrasonic transducer elements of the second ultrasonic sensor which are to be active in a following measuring phase are selected on the basis of the process variable of the received ultrasonic signals. | 04-28-2011 |
20110118995 | Coupling element of a sensor of an ultrasonic, flow measuring device - A coupling element of a sensor of an ultrasonic, flow measuring device, which includes at least three rods having, in each case, a first rod end and a second rod end. The rods, in each case, have, on their respective first ends, first end faces, which, in each case, can be acoustically coupled with the sound-emitting and/or sound-receiving area of an ultrasonic transducer element. The respective first end faces of the rods together form a first coupling surface of the coupling element, and the rods, in each case, have, on their respective second ends, second end faces, which form a second coupling surface of the coupling element, wherein the rods, in each case, have a first rod cross section, which is different in shape and/or size from a respective second rod cross section. | 05-19-2011 |
20110120231 | ULTRASONIC SENSOR OF A MEASURING SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AND/OR MONITORING FLOW OF A MEASURED MEDIUM THROUGH A MEASURING TUBE - An sensor of a measuring system for determining and/or monitoring the flow of a measured medium through a measuring tube, wherein the ultrasonic sensor is seated in a shiftable manner in a sensor housing parallel to a first inner surface of the sensor housing. The ultrasonic sensor has a coupling element and an electromechanical ultrasound transducer element, wherein the ultrasonic sensor can, at least at times, at least partially, lie against the first inner surface of the sensor housing, and that a guide hanger at least partially lies against a second inner surface of the sensor housing lying opposite the first inner surface, wherein the ultrasonic sensor is seated in a shiftable manner essentially perpendicularly to the first inner surface in the guide hanger, and wherein a spring between the guide hanger and ultrasonic sensor acts essentially perpendicularly to the first inner surface. | 05-26-2011 |
20110174083 | METHOD AND MEASURING SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AND/OR MONITORING THE FLOW OF A MEASURED MEDIUM THROUGH A MEASURING TUBE - Measuring system ( | 07-21-2011 |
20120153777 | Ultrasonic, Flow Measuring Device - An ultrasonic transducer for an ultrasonic, flow measuring device comprising an electromechanical transducer element and an ultrasound window, wherein an adapting, or matching, layer liquid at operating conditions of the ultrasonic transducer is arranged between the electromechanical transducer element and the ultrasound window, wherein the ultrasonic transducer has holding means, which exert a releasable force toward the ultrasound window on the electromechanical transducer element, in order to hold the electromechanical transducer element in a predetermined position relative to the ultrasound window. | 06-21-2012 |
20120227496 | Measuring Device - A method for the manufacture of a measuring device, and a measuring device for registering at least one measured value of at least one process variable, wherein the measuring device includes a measuring tube, which has at least one necked out portion, on which at least one measuring transducer is arranged, wherein the measuring tube together with the necked out portion is monolithic, and wherein the necked out portion is manufacturable from the measuring tube at least partially by a deformation method. | 09-13-2012 |
20140083202 | Ultrasonic, Flow Measuring Device - Please replace the abstract that appears on page 32 of the specification with the following revised abstract which is submitted on a separate sheet. | 03-27-2014 |
20140144247 | Ultrasonic, Flow Measuring Device - An ultrasonic, flow measuring device, including a measuring tube a transmitter a receiver and at least a first reflection surface. An acoustic signal incident on a first reflection surface and an acoustic signal reflected on the first reflection surface travel, in each case, along a straight subsection of the first signal path. The transmitter, the receiver and the first reflection surface are so oriented with respect to one another and arranged in or on the measuring tube that the acoustic signal on the first signal path from the first transmitter to the first receiver is so reflected on the first reflection surface that the sum of all lengths of all subsections as projected on a measuring tube axis, extending in a first plane parallel to the measuring tube axis, and having a predetermined separation other than zero from the measuring tube axis has a predetermined value different from zero. | 05-29-2014 |
20150043612 | METHOD FOR HEAT QUANTITY MEASUREMENT WITH AN ULTRASONIC, FLOW MEASURING DEVICE - A method and apparatus for heat quantity measurement, wherein, with an ultrasonic, flow measuring device, which works according to the travel time difference principle, the flow of a fluid of known chemical composition through the lumen of a pipeline is ascertained, and wherein the temperature of the fluid before and after a heat transferer is ascertained, wherein, for a first ascertaining of the temperature of the fluid, the velocity of sound in the fluid is ascertained with the ultrasonic, flow measuring device and a temperature is ascertained outside of the lumen of the pipeline. | 02-12-2015 |
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20090211347 | Method and Apparatus for Ascertaining and/or Monitoring a Process Variable - A method for ascertaining and/or monitoring a process variable, wherein a time-limited, exciting signal, which is described by at least one desired quantity, or by a desired signal form, is applied to a first piezoelectric element, or to a first polarized zone of a piezoelectric element. The response signal, which is described by at least one actual quantity, or actual signal form, corresponding, respectively, to the desired quantity, or desired signal form, is registered by a second piezoelectric element, or by a second polarized zone of the piezoelectric element, wherein the actual quantity, or the actual signal form, of the response signal and the desired quantity, or the designed signal form, of the response signal are compared with one another, wherein, in the case of a deviation of the actual quantity, or actual signal form, of the response signal from the desired quantity, or desired signal form, of the response signal, the exciting signal is so modified, that the actual quantity, or actual signal form, transmitted from the first piezoelectric element, or from the first zone of the piezoelectric element, is at least approximately equal to the desired quantity, or desired signal form, of the response signal. On the basis of the ultrasonic measuring signal, which is describable by the defined desired quantity, or the defined, desired signal form, the process variable is ascertained via a sound-entrainment method or via an echo method. | 08-27-2009 |
20100024570 | Device for Determining or Monitoring a Medium Volume or Mass Flow Rate in a Conduit - An ultrasonic, flow measuring device having a plurality of measuring channels. At least one ultrasonic sensor is situated in a first region of a pipeline, or measuring tube; at least two ultrasonic sensors are situated in a second region of the pipeline ( | 02-04-2010 |
20100139415 | Method for Monitoring an Ultrasound Flowmeter System and/or Process - A method for system- and/or process-monitoring in the case of an ultrasound flow measuring device having a plurality of measuring channels, wherein a medium flows though a pipeline or measuring tube in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the pipeline or measuring tube. Ultrasonic measuring signals are coupled into the pipeline or measuring tube and coupled out of the pipeline or measuring tube in such a way that they travel through the medium along different sound paths. Following passage through the pipeline or measuring tube, the ultrasonic measuring signals are detected in the individual measuring channels, wherein at least one actual quantity describing the ultrasonic measuring signal of each measuring channel is ascertained. The actual quantity is compared with a desired quantity captured under predetermined system- or process-conditions, and a report is output in the case of a difference between the ascertained, actual quantity and the captured, desired quantity. | 06-10-2010 |
20100187392 | APPARATUS FOR SECURING A MEASURING OR DISPLAY UNIT ON AN OBJECT - An apparatus for securing a measuring or display unit on an object. Included is elongated guide element, on which an orientation aid and a holder for the measuring unit or for the display unit are arranged shiftably in the longitudinal direction of the guide element, wherein the orientation aid and the holder are so positionable relative to one another, that the object is held clamped between the orientation aid and the holder or a mounted sensor, and wherein a resilient tensioning apparatus is provided, with which the measuring or display unit is pressable with a defined clamping force onto the object. | 07-29-2010 |
20110023623 | Device for Determining and/or Monitoring the Volume or Mass Flow Rate of a Medium in a Pipe Conduit - An apparatus for ascertaining, and/or monitoring, volume- or mass-flow of a medium flowing through a pipeline in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the pipeline. The apparatus includes: at least one ultrasonic sensor, which radiates/receives ultrasonic measuring signals at an angle of incidence/emergence into/out-of the pipeline; and a control/evaluation unit which provides, based on the ultrasonic measuring signals, information concerning volume- and/or mass-flow of the medium through the pipeline. The ultrasonic sensor includes at least one sound-producing element, a coupling shoe and a coupling adapter. The end region of the coupling adapter facing the coupling shoe has a securement mechanism for releasable securement of the coupling adapter to the coupling shoe. The end region of the coupling adapter facing the pipeline is embodied as a function of the pipeline in such a manner that it is form-fittingly securable to the pipeline. | 02-03-2011 |
20110239780 | COUPLING ELEMENT FOR AN ULTRASONIC FLOW MEASURING DEVICE - A coupling element for an ultrasonic, flow measuring device, wherein the coupling element has a pedestal with a bearing surface, on which bearing surface a piezoelement is applied. The pedestal is an integral component of the coupling element. | 10-06-2011 |
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20090253748 | PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF PLEUROMUTILINS - A process for the preparation of 14-O-[(N-(3-methyl-2-amino-butyryl-piperidinyl)sulfanyl) acetyl]mutilins of formula (I) feasible for large-scale production of high purity products, and wherein the carbon atom at the piperidine ring attached to the sulphur atom is either in the (S)-configuration or in the (R)-configuration, and a new crystalline form of 14-O-[(N-3-methyl-2-(R)-amino-butyryl-piperidine-3(S)-yl)sulfanyl)acetyl]mutilin-hydrochloride. | 10-08-2009 |
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20110009648 | Carbonyl Asymmetric Alkylation - This invention relates to processes and intermediates for the stereoselective alkylation of carbonyl groups. The invention in particular allows the stereoselective preparation of the antidepressant drug escitalopram. It has been found that boric or boronic acid derivatives are useful bridging elements for the attachment of a chiral group to a compound containing a carbonyl group to be alkylated. The said borates and boronates are thus useful in a process for the asymmetric alkylation of a carbonyl group in a compound containing a carbonyl group and an anchor group capable of reacting with a boric or boronic acid derivative. The asymmetric alkylation can be carried out by admixing the compound containing a carbonyl group to be alkylated and the anchor group capable of reacting with a boric or boronic acid derivative with a boric or boronic acid derivative, adding a chiral alcohol, and adding an organometallic compound. After the alkylation reaction, the borate and boronate can be easily removed by hydrolysis. | 01-13-2011 |
20130053571 | PLEUROMUTILINS AND PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF PLEUROMUTILINS - A process for the preparation of 14-O—[(N-(3-methyl-2-amino-butyryl-piperidinyl)sulfanyl)acetyl]mutilins of formula | 02-28-2013 |
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20130167654 | REPLACEABLE ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER FOR AN ULTRASONIC FLOW MEASURING DEVICE - An ultrasonic transducer for an ultrasonic flow measuring device, comprising a first housing part and a second housing part. The second housing part is axially guided in the first housing part and is so biased relative to the first housing part that, in a first state of the ultrasonic transducer, a first axial stop of the second housing part rests on a first axial stop of the first housing part, wherein, by applying, counter to the bias, a predetermined force on a second axial stop of the second housing part, the second housing part is axially shiftable, so that, in a second state of the ultrasonic transducer, the first axial stop of the second housing part is moved out of the first state. | 07-04-2013 |
20130192386 | ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER FOR A FLOW MEASURING DEVICE - An ultrasonic transducer for an ultrasonic flow measuring device, comprising a first housing part having an ultrasonic window and adjoining, rotationally symmetric walls, wherein there adjoins on the walls of the first housing part, coaxially with the walls of the first housing part, a first ring as resonator, which forms an end of the first housing part. | 08-01-2013 |
20130205904 | ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER FOR AN ULTRASONIC FLOW MEASURING DEVICE - An ultrasonic transducer for an ultrasonic flow measuring device, comprising an electromechanical transducer element, which is prestressed against an ultrasonic window of the ultrasonic transducer by a suitable structure, wherein a first surface of the electromechanical transducer element faces the ultrasonic window, and wherein a second surface of the electromechanical transducer element lying opposite the first surface is divided into a plurality of segments, which are galvanically connected with the suitable structure for prestressing. | 08-15-2013 |