The invention relates to a magnetic-inductive flow meter (1) in which the measuring electrodes (10) comprise at least a main body (11) and an electrode head (12), which is in contact with the medium and has a conical outer contour directed towards the medium. For hygienically reliable sealing of the measuring electrodes (10), it is proposed that the liner (20), with which the measuring tube (2) is lined, extends into the opening (3) in the wall of the measuring tube (2) such that the liner (20) functions as a sealing element acting between the electrode head (12) and the wall of the measuring tube (2), wherein, in the wall opening (3), the outer contour of the electrode head (12) and the inner contour of the liner (20) are at an angle to one another such that maximum compression of the liner (20) takes place exclusively in a quasi-linear sealing region facing the medium.
G01F 1/58 - Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow by using electric or magnetic effects by electromagnetic flowmeters
2.
MEASURING ARRANGEMENT HAVING AT LEAST ONE MECHATRONIC FLOW SENSOR, AND A COOLANT LUBRICANT SYSTEM
The invention relates to a measuring arrangement having at least one mechatronic flow sensor (12a,12b) connected to a fluid line (14), wherein the at least one flow sensor (12a, 12b) has a lifting body (16a,16b) with restoring means (18a,18b). In an initial state, the lifting body rests on a valve seat (20) in a sensor housing and is movable along a guide axis (M) in the direction of a sensor element (22) in order to determine a volume flow of a fluid in the fluid line (14). The measuring arrangement (10) has a first mechatronic flow sensor (12a) with an associated first measuring region (M1) and at least one second mechatronic flow sensor (12b) which is arranged in series along a flow direction (F) and has an associated second measuring region (M2). The invention further relates to a coolant lubricant system for a machine tool, to a method for workpiece machining and to a workpiece.
G01F 1/28 - Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow by using mechanical effects by detection of dynamic effects of the flow by drag-force, e.g. vane type or impact flowmeter
G01F 7/00 - Volume-flow measuring devices with two or more measuring rangesCompound meters
G01F 15/00 - Details of, or accessories for, apparatus of groups insofar as such details or appliances are not adapted to particular types of such apparatus
3.
NON-INVASIVE TEMPERATURE SENSOR WITH INSULATING SYSTEM
A non-invasive temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of a fluid in a pipe (2), comprising a sensor body (1), a sensing tip (12) configured to contact the surface of the pipe (2), wherein the outer contour of the sensing tip (12) defines a sensing zone (8), a shroud (3) fixed around the sensor body (1) and shaped to conform to the pipe (2) surface, the shroud (3) extending lengthwise and circumferentially along the pipe (2), a confined air chamber (4) formed between the shroud (3) and the surface of the pipe (2) due to the lengthwise and circumferential extension of the shroud (3), the confined air chamber (4) insulating the pipe (2) in an area around the sensing zone (8) from temperature influences or heat loss, a clamping system (5) holding the sensor against the pipe (2) and applying constant and uniform pressure on the shroud (3) to maintain contact between the sensing tip (12) and the pipe (2) surface.
The invention relates to a system (1) for detecting objects, comprising a photovoltaic element (10), an energy store (20), an energy management unit (30), a radio unit (40), a sensor controller (50), and an optical sensor unit (60), wherein the sensor unit (60) is designed as an optical proximity switch, and wherein the sensor controller (50) is designed such that object detections of the sensor unit (60) are evaluated and transmitted to the radio unit (40) for further communication.
G01V 8/10 - Detecting, e.g. by using light barriers
G05B 19/418 - Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM]
G01V 8/20 - Detecting, e.g. by using light barriers using multiple transmitters or receivers
5.
MEASURING DEVICE FOR PROCESS AND AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY AND METHOD FOR STARTING UP SUCH A MEASURING DEVICE
The invention relates to a measuring device (1) for process and automation technology for recording a physical variable and to a method for starting up said measuring device, comprising a sensor unit, an electronic unit, a communication unit and a radio unit, wherein the electronic unit is arranged in a housing (2) and is suitable for evaluating and/or processing measurement signals generated by the sensor element, wherein the communication unit is suitable for transmitting the evaluated and/or processed measurement signals to a superordinate control unit, and wherein the radio unit is part of the sensor unit and/or the communication unit. For a simple and at the same time error-free or tamper-proof manner of setting the measuring device with regard to country-specific requirements, provision is made for the operation of the measuring device (1) to require a coding element (3) which can be inserted into an area (2a) of the housing (2) provided for this purpose, wherein the coding element (3) comprises at least one country-specific piece of information which is queried by the measuring device (1) after the insertion of the coding element (3) and as a result of which the radio unit is configured.
ELECTRONIC DEVICE USED IN AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY, COMPRISING AN ELECTRONICS CIRCUIT BOARD WHICH IS DOUBLY OVERMOLDED WITH PLASTICS MATERIAL, AND A METHOD
The invention relates to an electronic device used in automation technology, comprising an electronics circuit board (EP) which is doubly overmolded with plastics material and on which at least one plug connector (12) and a plurality of light sources (14) are arranged, wherein the electronics circuit board (EP), in a first production state (16a), is embedded in a first plastics injection-molded part (T1), and wherein, in a second production state (16b), the first plastics injection-molded part (T1) is at least partly encased by a second plastics injection-molded part (T2). A plurality of recesses (20) are formed between the electronics circuit board (EP) and an upper face (18) of the first plastics injection-molded part (T1), wherein the electronic device (10) comprises a plurality of light-guiding elements (22) which in the first production state (16a) are selectively insertable or inserted, for the purposes of light guidance, into the recesses (20) in order to form light-guiding portions above the light sources (14). The invention also relates to a production method.
H05K 7/14 - Mounting supporting structure in casing or on frame or rack
B29C 45/16 - Making multilayered or multicoloured articles
B29C 44/12 - Incorporating or moulding on preformed parts, e.g. inserts or reinforcements
B29C 45/14 - Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a nozzle into a closed mouldApparatus therefor incorporating preformed parts or layers, e.g. injection moulding around inserts or for coating articles
G02B 6/42 - Coupling light guides with opto-electronic elements
The invention relates to a light propagation time camera comprising an illumination means for emitting a structured light in the form of a plurality of light spots or light structures - and comprising a light propagation time sensor for detecting the light emitted and reflected by a scene, - comprising an evaluation unit which is designed such that the following steps are provided for determining an exposure time and/or light intensity: - detecting a brightness pattern by means of the light propagation time sensor, - dividing the brightness pattern into tile-shaped pixel groups, wherein a dimension of the pixel groups is defined such that the centre points of the pixel groups have a distance which is equal to or greater than a minimum distance of the received light structures, - ascertaining a brightness maximum value within the pixel groups, - forming a brightness sequence or determining a brightness distribution starting from the ascertained brightness maximum values - determining an exposure time and/or light intensity of the emitted light on the basis of the brightness sequence or brightness distribution.
The invention relates to an illumination device (1) for a light-based time-of-flight camera system (41), comprising: at least one current source (8, 8a, 8b); a light-emitting unit (3) having at least two light sources (5) for emitting transmitted light (42a); and a modulator (11) for modulating the transmitted light (42a) emitted by the light sources (5). The illumination device (1) comprises at least two parallel illumination paths (7a, 7b), each of the illumination paths (7a, 7b) having at least one light source (5) and a choke circuit comprising at least one inductor (La, Lb), and the illumination device also comprises a synchronous driver (9) for controlling the two illumination paths.
G01S 17/894 - 3D imaging with simultaneous measurement of time-of-flight at a 2D array of receiver pixels, e.g. time-of-flight cameras or flash lidar
G01S 17/36 - Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only using transmission of continuous waves, whether amplitude-, frequency-, or phase-modulated, or unmodulated with phase comparison between the received signal and the contemporaneously transmitted signal
12.
Display Unit for a Measuring Device for Process and Automation Technology and Measuring Device for Process and Automation Technology
The invention relates to a display unit for a measuring device, comprising a housing (10) with an opening (11) for a display (2). The display (2) is covered by a front panel (20), and a molded seal (30) with a bead-type main part (31) and a seal lip (32) is arranged between the housing (10) and the front panel (20), said seal lip being formed by two limbs which are arranged at an angle to each other and having a shape which complements the contour of the recess of the front panel (20). The bead-type main part (31) is arranged between the inner face of the housing (10) and the front panel (20) in order to achieve a pressing or holding function for the front panel (20), and the seal lip (32) extends into the free area (3) between the housing (10) and the front panel (20) in order to achieve a radial seal effect, wherein the front panel (20) is set back relative to the surface of the housing (10), and the housing (10) inner edge which covers the recess (21) of the front panel (20) has an embossed section (12) in the vertical direction of the front panel (20).
A camera system includes a sensor having a plurality of pixels sensitive to electromagnetic radiation; and an evaluator. The sensor is arranged behind a semi-transparent layer. The evaluator is configured to suppress an interference pattern occurring on the sensor by a pixel-by-pixel correction.
H04N 25/617 - Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise for reducing electromagnetic interference, e.g. clocking noise
H04N 23/52 - Elements optimising image sensor operation, e.g. for electromagnetic interference [EMI] protection or temperature control by heat transfer or cooling elements
The invention relates to a time-of-flight camera comprising an illumination means for emitting a pulsed and/or modulated light, wherein the light is emitted in the form of a dot pattern or a plurality of spots, comprising a receiving sensor with multiple pixels for receiving the emitted dot pattern or the emitted spots, wherein the size of the pixels is smaller than the extension of an individual received spot, and wherein the extension of the spot is determined such that the received spot illuminates multiple pixels, and comprising an evaluation unit which is designed in such a way that, for a distance measurement, only those pixels in the area of the received spot are evaluated which lie within a predefined value range of a pixel measurement variable, and the remaining pixels are omitted or given a negligible weighting.
The invention relates to a camera with an illumination means which emits light in the form of a dot pattern or a plurality of spots, comprising a receiving sensor with multiple pixels for receiving the emitted dot pattern or the emitted spots, wherein the size of the pixels is smaller than the extension of an individual spot and wherein the extension of the spot is determined such that the received spot illuminates multiple pixels, in which at least one measured value is output for at least some of the spots, and comprising an evaluation unit which is designed in such a way that it can be decided on the basis of the pixels in the area of the received spots whether a spot lies on at least one object edge.
G01S 17/36 - Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only using transmission of continuous waves, whether amplitude-, frequency-, or phase-modulated, or unmodulated with phase comparison between the received signal and the contemporaneously transmitted signal
G01S 17/894 - 3D imaging with simultaneous measurement of time-of-flight at a 2D array of receiver pixels, e.g. time-of-flight cameras or flash lidar
G01S 17/10 - Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only using transmission of interrupted, pulse-modulated waves
The invention relates to a sensor for process and automation engineering, consisting of individual modules (10, 20), which are releasably connected to each other, wherein a sensor unit is arranged in a first module (10) and an electronics unit is arranged in a second module (20), wherein the housings (11, 21) of both modules are designed with congruent bases such that they can be connected at the front side to a sensor (1) with a compact contour. The base of a first housing has an annular protrusion (12) with at least one radially outwardly arranged bulge (13), and the base of a second housing (21) has a complementary annular recess (22) with an indentation (23) complementary to the bulge, which has an undercut, in which the radial bulge (13) engages by twisting the two housings (11, 21) towards each other, thereby creating a releasable locking mechanism. An elastic sealing element (25) is arranged in the annular recess (22) of the second housing (21) to seal both housings (11, 21), which sealing element is also designed to be preloaded by contact with the annular protrusion (12) of the first housing (11) as a result of the push-and-twist movement, whereby the at least one bulge (13) is pressed in the axial direction against the wall of the indentation (23), such that the push-and-twist movement allows both housings (11, 21) to be connected to one another simultaneously in a form-fitting and frictionally engaged manner.
A laser device includes a semiconductor laser component. The semiconductor laser component includes a laser array. The laser array includes a plurality of semiconductor lasers emitting a laser light vertically. The laser device further includes an optics device. The optics device includes at least a second optics element, and a first optics element arranged between the second optics element and the laser array along an optical axis. The optics device is configured for expanding the laser light emitted from the semiconductor lasers, collimating the expanded laser light, and for shaping a beam profile of the collimated laser light.
H01S 5/183 - Surface-emitting [SE] lasers, e.g. having both horizontal and vertical cavities having only vertical cavities, e.g. vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers [VCSEL]
The invention relates to a machine tool (1000) for machining workpieces using a machining fluid. The machine tool (1000) comprises a working space (1) in which the workpiece machining takes place, at least one fluid consumer (2) via which a machining fluid for the workpiece machining can be supplied to the working space (1), a hydraulic device (3) which is configured to supply the at least one fluid consumer (2) with the machining fluid, and a control device (4) for controlling the machine tool. The hydraulic device (3) comprises a pump (32) for conveying the machining fluid, an inlet (35), via which the machining fluid conveyed by the pump (32) is fed to the at least one fluid consumer (2), and a flow measuring unit (351), which is associated with the inlet and which comprises at least a first measuring unit (351a) and a second measuring unit (351b), which are each configured to detect a flow rate of the machining fluid in the inlet (35). The control device (4) is set up to control the machine tool (1000) as a function of a first actual value detected by the first measuring unit (351a) and/or of a second actual value detected by the second measuring unit (351b) of the flow rate of the machining fluid in the inlet (35).
A method for compensating a temperature shock at a capacitive pressure measuring cell is disclosed, the method employs a measuring capacitor and a reference capacitor, wherein in an evaluation unit a pressure measurement value p is obtained by forming the quotient Q from the capacitance values of the reference capacitor and the measuring capacitor and a pressure measurement value pM is obtained by use of the measuring capacitor, wherein the temperature shock is detected by comparing the pressure measurement values p and pM with each other and monitoring the gradient dD of the difference value D of the two values with respect to exceeding a predetermined threshold value. The intensity of the temperature shock is determined based on the gradient dD of the difference value D, whereby the influence of error can be counteracted very quickly and the duration of the influence of error is also very short.
G01L 9/12 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means by making use of variations in capacitance
G01L 27/00 - Testing or calibrating of apparatus for measuring fluid pressure
20.
PRESSURE SENSOR HAVING SENSOR ELECTRONICS, AND A METHOD
The invention relates to a pressure sensor having sensor electronics (12) comprising a laser light source (14) and a detection unit (16) in order to irradiate a membrane surface (20) of a pressure-dependently deflectable membrane (18) using coherent laser light (22) and receive reflected light (23). In this case, the sensor electronics (12) and the membrane (18) are arranged in a sensor housing (30), wherein the laser light source (14) emits the laser light (22) divergently, and the detection unit (16) is designed as an image sensor (17) with a plurality of pixels for detecting the reflected light (23) as a pressure-dependent interference pattern (24), wherein the pressure sensor (10) comprises an evaluation unit (26) with a storage unit which determines a measured pressure value (P) acting on the membrane (18) by comparing a measured interference pattern with a plurality of stored reference interference patterns for a plurality of reference pressure values (Pr). Furthermore, the invention also relates to a method for operating a pressure sensor.
G01L 11/02 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by means not provided for in group or by optical means
G01L 9/00 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means
G01B 11/24 - Measuring arrangements characterised by the use of optical techniques for measuring contours or curvatures
21.
MAGNETICALLY INDUCTIVE FLOWMETER, TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT ARRANGEMENT, AND FLOWMETER HAVING A TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT ARRANGEMENT OF THIS KIND
The invention relates to a magnetically inductive flowmeter (1), in which the measurement electrodes (10) comprise at least a main body (11) and an electrode head (12), which is in contact with the medium and has a conical outer contour directed to the medium. According to the invention, for hygienically reliable sealing of the measurement electrodes (10), the electrode head (12) of each measurement electrode (10) is arranged in an opening (3) in the wall of the measurement tube (2) and a sealing element (20) having a conical inner contour is located between the electrode head (12) and the wall of the measurement tube, wherein the outer contour of the electrode head (12) and the inner contour of the sealing element (20) are at an angle to one another, so that maximum compaction of the sealing element (20) takes place exclusively in a quasi-linear sealing region facing the medium. The invention also relates to a temperature measurement assembly and to a flowmeter having a temperature measurement assembly.
G01F 1/58 - Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow by using electric or magnetic effects by electromagnetic flowmeters
G01L 9/00 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means
G01L 9/12 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means by making use of variations in capacitance
23.
VIBRATION MONITORING IN ORDER TO DETECT AN ERROR DURING A PROCESS AUTOMATION
The invention relates to a computer-implemented monitoring method (1) for analyzing vibrations in order to detect a machine error during a process automation, said method being more reliable in the detection of errors, comprising a statistical analysis (4) of the at least one series or at least one section thereof in order to ascertain a respective deviation of the measured sensor data (5) according to at least three criteria (K, I, II, III), wherein the statistical analysis provides a null hypothesis and an expected value and calculates the statistical significance with respect to a deviation from a specified null hypothesis in order to output a warning if the statistical significance deviates from the null hypothesis, and/or for a specified significance level α, the probability of a deviation from the null hypothesis is greater than the significance level α.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Measuring apparatus, in particular for status monitoring and diagnosis of machines and installations; Sensors, In particular vibration detectors; Electronic and optoelectronic evaluation apparatus, Especially Signal evaluation apparatus; Monitoring systems for machines and installations, in particular consisting of the following goods: Sensors, Calculators, Monitors and Software; Software for data collection, evaluation, and processing of measurement values; Software for monitoring and analysing physical world processes, Especially, Software for the monitoring and analysis of vibrations of machines. Technical consultancy, Relating to the following sectors: Installation and configuration of monitoring systems for machines and installations; Measurement evaluation services.
25.
LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND TURBIDITY SENSOR COMPRISING SUCH A LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE
The invention relates to a light-emitting diode (5a), in particular for a turbidity sensor, comprising an LED chip (5) as radiation emitter, wherein the LED chip (5) is hermetically enclosed by a base (13), a housing and a converging lens, wherein a photodiode (8) as radiation receiver is arranged next to the LED chip (5) and as reference receiver detects the radiation intensity of the LED chip (5), wherein the LED chip (5) and the photodiode (8) are enclosed by a stop element (10), which has a through-hole (11) for forwarding the beams emitted by the LED chip (5) into the surroundings, but for the rest forms a reflection plane that causes the beams from the LED chip (5) to pass to the photodiode (8) and at the same time limits the intrusion of stray light from the surroundings. The invention additionally relates to a turbidity sensor comprising such a light-emitting diode.
The invention relates to a radiation receiving unit (6a), in particular for a turbidity sensor, comprising a base (13) with a light-sensitive radiation receiver (6), a sleeve (14) placed on the base (13), a converging lens (12), a wavelength filter (16) arranged within the sleeve (14), and a plane window element (17), which is arranged within the sleeve (14) and on the inner side of which the wavelength filter (16) is arranged and on the outer side of which the converging lens (12) is arranged, wherein the sleeve (14) is hermetically tightly sealed on both sides by the window element (17) and the base (13) and the converging lens (12) is configured such that it focuses incident light through the wavelength filter (16) onto the radiation receiver (6); the invention also relates to a turbidity sensor (1) comprising such a radiation receiving unit (6a).
The invention relates to a round plug (1) for industrial applications of the automation industry. The round plug (1) comprises a circuit board (20) in the interior of the round plug (1), together with: a sensor element (21) disposed on the circuit board (20); an evaluation circuit (22) applied to the circuit board (20); an interface (S); a collar surface (30) on the periphery of the round plug (1); an axis of rotation (31); and a sleeve-type adjustment element (10), which partly rotates about the axis of rotation (31); wherein: the adjustment element (10) consists of an inner sleeve (11), an outer sleeve (12), a spring wire (13) and a magnet (14), and the magnet (14) is inserted into the outer sleeve (12); the adjustment element (10) is pressed onto the round plug (1) such that the inner sleeve (11) is fixedly and interlockingly connected to the collar surface (30) of the round plug (1); an initial position (G) is assumed by—the movable parts of the adjustment element (10), —the outer sleeve (12) and—the magnet (14) when the spring wire (13) is in spring equilibrium; the sensor element (21) can detect the initial position (G) and, when the adjustment element (10) is rotated out of the initial position (G), can distinguish a first direction of rotation (A) from a second, opposite direction of rotation (B).
A light time-of-flight pixel comprising at least one modulation gate (GA, GB) having a mixing and a transfer region (TA, TB), and comprising at least one storage region (SGA, SGB), the transfer region (TA, TB) being arranged between the mixing region and the storage region (SGA, SGB), the transfer region being doped in such a way that a modulation gate voltage present at the modulation gate (GA, GB) opens or closes charge transfer to the storage region (SGA, SGB).
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Measuring apparatus and evaluating apparatus for process monitoring of machines and installations; Sensor actuator boxes; Gateways; Active and passive power distributors; Sensors, Including position sensors and Process sensors, Especially Inductive sensors, Capacitive sensors, Optical-Electric Sensors, Magnetic sensors, Pressure sensors, Flowmeters, Sensors to gauge, fluid flow sensors, Temperature sensors, Rotary transducers, rotation rate sensors, Incline sensor, Vibration sensors; Displays, Especially, Displays, for use in relation to the following goods: Sensors; Electric and electronic plug connectors and distributors, Cable boxes and cable connectors, Electrical plugs, Interconnects, Central distributors; bus wires, Especially, Bus lines for connecting electric and electronic actuators and sensors; Computer software for operational data recording, evaluation, processing and storage, Software for monitoring, analysing, controlling and running physical world operations.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Measuring apparatus and evaluating apparatus for process monitoring of machines and installations; Sensors, Especially Process sensors and Fluid sensors, Such as Sensors to gauge, Flowmeters, Pressure sensors, fluid flow sensors, Temperature sensors and Vacuum sensors; Radar sensors, Especially Radar level sensors; Software for data recording, evaluating, processing and storage of measurement values recorded by the aforesaid sensors; Apps for monitoring levels with the aforesaid sensors.
31.
Method For Monitoring The Operation of a Capacitive Pressure Measuring Cell
A method for monitoring the operation of a capacitive pressure measuring cell which has a measuring capacitor (CM) and a reference capacitor (CR) is disclosed, where an internal excitation voltage UE0 is applied in the form of an alternating square-wave signal, and the pressure measured value p is obtained from the capacitance values of the measuring capacitor (CM) and the reference capacitor (CR). The excitation voltage UE0 is converted into a voltage signal UCOM by integration, with additional voltage values being acquired over time such that the value of the voltage signal UCOM is indicative of an external influence of either an electromagnetic and/or low-frequency nature or a resistive interfering influence caused by moisture.
G01L 9/00 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means
The invention relates to a PMD light transit time sensor (22) for an optical distance measurement system, comprising an array of PMD light transit time pixels (21), said light transit time pixels having diode nodes (Ga, Gb) for an A channel and a B channel (A, B) and being connectable to a corresponding column line (cola, colb) via a first switch (S1) and to a reset potential (vreset) via a second switch (S2). The PMD light transit time sensor comprises multiple shift registers, which are constructed and connected to the pixels such that the two switches (S1, S2) can be switched in an alternating manner on the basis of register entries of the individual registers (FF), wherein multiple columns or rows are at least partly assigned to a shift register; and a switch matrix (80), which is designed such that the column lines (cola, colb) can be connected to one of a plurality of amplifiers (100) and multiple column lines (cola, colb) can be connected to a common amplifier (100). The light transit time sensor (22) is designed such that during an integration time period, the charges photogenerated on the light transit time pixel are accumulated on the diode nodes (diode a, diode b) and the connected column lines (cola, colb).
The invention relates to a pressure measurement device (1) for detecting the pressure of a medium within a container or a pipeline in an explosive environment, comprising a pressure measurement cell (3) having a membrane (3a), a process connection (2) receiving the pressure measurement cell (3), and a housing (4) placed on the process connection (2) for receiving means for electronic signal processing, wherein a metal partition (5, 5a) is arranged in the interior of the housing (4), which partition extends perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the pressure measurement device and by means of which the housing interior is divided into two regions and a first zone at the process end is thus separated from a second zone within the context of the ATEX Guidelines, wherein means (7) for inductive energy and signal transmission are arranged on the partition, which means comprise at least two coils and are suitable for transmitting, through the partition, energy for operating the pressure measurement cell (3) and a pressure detected by the pressure measurement cell (3) as an electrical signal.
G01L 9/00 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means
G01L 19/08 - Means for indicating or recording, e.g. for remote indication
G01L 19/06 - Means for preventing overload or deleterious influence of the measured medium on the measuring device or vice versa
G01L 13/02 - Devices or apparatus for measuring differences of two or more fluid pressure values using elastically-deformable members or pistons as sensing elements
34.
PRESSURE MEASUREMENT DEVICE FOR USE IN A POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE ENVIRONMENT
The invention relates to a pressure measurement device for detecting the pressure of a medium within a container or a pipeline in an potentially explosive environment, having: a pressure measurement cell (3) comprising a membrane (3a); a process connection (2) which receives the pressure measurement cell (3); a housing (4), placed on the process connection (2), for receiving means for electronic signal processing; and a flame-arresting air passage (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d) which, for the purposes of measuring relative pressure, permits a pressure compensation between the pressure measurement cell (3) and the environment, wherein a separating wall (5, 5a) which is arranged in the interior of the housing (4) and extends perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the pressure measurement device (1) divides the housing interior into two regions and thus a first zone, facing the process, is separated from a second zone in accordance with the ATEX guidelines, wherein the pressure measurement cell (3) is arranged in the first zone, wherein the separating wall (5, 5a) either has a peripherally arranged outer thread into which thread a housing (4) having a corresponding inner thread is screwed or has a longitudinally oriented through bore (9a) having an inner thread into which bore a threaded pin (9) is screwed, wherein the flame-arresting property of the air passage (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d) is achieved in that the air passage (6a, 6b, 6c) extends at least partially via the threaded connection (6b) formed between the separating wall (5, 5a) and the housing inner side.
G01L 9/00 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means
G01L 19/00 - Details of, or accessories for, apparatus for measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluent medium insofar as such details or accessories are not special to particular types of pressure gauges
G01L 19/06 - Means for preventing overload or deleterious influence of the measured medium on the measuring device or vice versa
G01L 13/02 - Devices or apparatus for measuring differences of two or more fluid pressure values using elastically-deformable members or pistons as sensing elements
The invention relates to a light transit time pixel comprising —at least one modulation gate (GA, GB) which has a photoactive region (FAB) and a storage region (MA, MB), said storage region (MA, MB) having a locally increased n-type doping below the modulation gate (GA, GB) and delimiting the photoactive region (FAB) of the modulation gate (GA, GB), —at least one transfer gate (TXA, TXB) which adjoins the storage region (MA, MB) of the modulation gate (GA, GB), —at least one reading diode (DA, DB) which follows the transfer gate (TXA, TXB), —at least one drain gate (DG) which adjoins one side of the light-sensitive region (FAB) of the modulation gate (GA, GB), and —at least one drain diode (DD) which follows the drain gate (DG).
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
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Goods & Services
Sensors, In particular position sensors and Distance sensors; Inductive sensors, security sensors; Test units; Software for the data recording, evaluation, processing and storage of measurement values recorded by sensors; apps. Engineering services; Technical project studies; Technical consultancy Relating to the following sectors: Installation and set-up of sensors in process, methods and plant engineering.
The invention relates to a weld-in adapter for connecting a sensor (1) or actuator to a container (2) containing a medium, comprising a cylindrical through-opening (4) for receiving the sensor (1) or actuator and a transition region (3a) arranged concentrically around the through-opening (4) and with an outer edge region (3b) that is suitable for welding (6) to the container (2), wherein, at one end, the through-opening (4) has a circumferential sealing edge (5) tapering the through-opening (4), which is suited for being part of a sealing concept for the media-tight connection between the sensor (1) or actuator and the weld-in adapter (3). According to the invention, the sealing edge (5) is offset in parallel by a distance relative to the outer edge region (3b) of the transition region (3a), and the transition region (3a) has a curved structure with an angle of attack α for compensating for this offset.
F16L 41/00 - Branching pipesJoining pipes to walls
G01L 19/00 - Details of, or accessories for, apparatus for measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluent medium insofar as such details or accessories are not special to particular types of pressure gauges
39.
ULTRASONIC THROUGH-FLOW MEASUREMENT DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A THROUGH-FLOW OF A FLUIDIC MEDIUM THROUGH A PIPELINE
11) dependent on a wall thickness (s) of the pipeline (1), and wherein the first calibration converter (4.1) is designed and arranged to couple-in the calibration signal (8) in a radial direction (R) of the pipeline (1) at the wall (1.1) and to couple-out a first component (8.1) of the calibration signal (8) reflected by a pipe internal face of the wall (1.1). The invention also relates to a further ultrasonic through-flow measurement device (2) and to a method for calibrating such an ultrasonic through-flow measurement device (2).
G01F 1/66 - Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow by measuring frequency, phase shift or propagation time of electromagnetic or other waves, e.g. using ultrasonic flowmeters
G01F 1/667 - Arrangements of transducers for ultrasonic flowmetersCircuits for operating ultrasonic flowmeters
G01F 1/663 - Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow by measuring frequency, phase shift or propagation time of electromagnetic or other waves, e.g. using ultrasonic flowmeters by measuring Doppler frequency shift
G01F 25/10 - Testing or calibration of apparatus for measuring volume, volume flow or liquid level or for metering by volume of flowmeters
40.
Method for Detecting Coatings and/or Adhesions on the Outside of a Measurement Membrane of a Pressure Measuring Device
A method for recognizing deposits and/or adhesions on the outside of a measurement membrane of a pressure measuring device within a process facility is disclosed. The pressure measuring device includes a pressure measuring cell comprising a measurement membrane to detect pressure of a medium in a container. The outside of the measurement membrane is at least partially in contact with the medium its second side facing away from the medium includes means for detecting deflection of the measurement membrane. The pressure measuring device detects a micropulsation superimposed on the static pressure as an actual value. Micropulsations result from specific operating states of the process facility. Micropulsation conditions typical of specific operating states have been stored beforehand as setpoint values in an equalization procedure. The detected actual values are compared to the specified setpoint values, and an alarm signal is generated if they exceed and/or fall below the specified values.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Measuring apparatus and evaluating apparatus for process monitoring of machines and installations; Sensors for monitoring liquids or bulk goods, for example Sensors to gauge, Flowmeters, Pressure sensors, fluid flow sensors, Temperature sensors and Vacuum sensors; Software for the data recording, evaluation, processing and storage of measurement values recorded by sensors for monitoring liquids or bulk goods; Apps for monitoring liquids or bulk goods using the aforesaid goods.
42.
Method for monitoring the function of a capacitive pressure measuring cell
G01L 27/00 - Testing or calibrating of apparatus for measuring fluid pressure
G01L 9/00 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means
G01L 9/12 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means by making use of variations in capacitance
G01L 19/00 - Details of, or accessories for, apparatus for measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluent medium insofar as such details or accessories are not special to particular types of pressure gauges
G01L 19/04 - Means for compensating for effects of changes of temperature
43.
Method for operating a pressure measuring cell of a capacitive pressure sensor
A method for operating a pressure measuring cell of a capacitive pressure sensor. The pressure measuring cell includes a pressure-dependent measuring capacitor and a reference capacitor, with an internal alternating square wave excitation voltage applied. The pressure measured value is obtained from capacitance values of the measuring capacitor and the reference capacitor. The measurement signal is an alternating square-wave signal supplied to an evaluation unit. The alternating square-wave signal is supplied to an amplifier unit where signal amplification is performed by amplitude adjustment for the internal excitation voltage and offset compensation is performed by a further square-wave signal and gain correction is performed by multiplicative influencing of the quotient of the capacitance values of the reference capacitor and the measuring capacitor, and the offset correction is performed by virtue of the square-wave signal being supplied to the amplifier unit and thus being added to the square-wave signal.
G01L 27/02 - Testing or calibrating of apparatus for measuring fluid pressure of indicators
G01L 9/12 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means by making use of variations in capacitance
G01L 27/00 - Testing or calibrating of apparatus for measuring fluid pressure
44.
DISPLAY UNIT FOR A MEASURING DEVICE FOR PROCESSING AND AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY, AND MEASURING DEVICE FOR PROCESSING AND AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY
The invention relates to a display unit for a measuring device, comprising a housing (10) with an opening (11) for a display (2). The display (2) is covered by a front panel (20), and a molded seal (30) with a bead-type main part (31) and a seal lip (32) is arranged between the housing (10) and the front panel (20), said seal lip being formed by two limbs which are arranged at an angle to each other and having a shape which complements the contour of the recess of the front panel (20). The bead-type main part (31) is arranged between the inner face of the housing (10) and the front panel (20) in order to achieve a pressing or holding function for the front panel (20), and the seal lip (32) extends into the free area (3) between the housing (10) and the front panel (20) in order to achieve a radial seal effect, wherein the front panel (20) is set back relative to the surface of the housing (10), and the housing (10) inner edge which covers the recess (21) of the front panel (20) has an embossed section (12) in the vertical direction of the front panel (20).
The invention relates to a method for the dynamic extension of raw phase images of a time-of-flight camera or time-of-flight camera system, in which method at least two depth images are taken using different exposure times.
The invention relates to a laser device (10) having a semiconductor laser component (12) comprising a laser array (14) with a plurality of semiconductor lasers (13) which emit laser light (16) vertically, and having an optics apparatus (19) comprising at least one second optics element and one first optics element (21) arranged between the second optics element (22) and the laser array (14), said optics elements being arranged along an optical axis (24), wherein the optics apparatus (19) is provided to expand the laser light (16) emitted by the semiconductor lasers (18), to collimate the laser light (16) expanded by the first optics element (21) and to shape the beam profile of the collimated laser light (16).
A camera system that comprises a sensor, consisting of one or more pixels sensitive to electromagnetic radiation; a lighting device; and an evaluation unit; the sensor and the lighting device being located behind a semi-transparent layer that reflects some of the radiation of the lighting device back to the sensor, characterized in that in the memory of the evaluation unit a reference signal is stored which characterizes the cross-talk signal to be expected for a recording and the reference signal is subtracted from the signal of the recording.
G01S 17/36 - Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only using transmission of continuous waves, whether amplitude-, frequency-, or phase-modulated, or unmodulated with phase comparison between the received signal and the contemporaneously transmitted signal
G01S 17/894 - 3D imaging with simultaneous measurement of time-of-flight at a 2D array of receiver pixels, e.g. time-of-flight cameras or flash lidar
The invention relates to a magnetic-inductive flowmeter for measuring the flow of a flowing, conductive medium. The flowmeter has a measuring tube, a magnetic field generating device, two pin shaped measuring electrodes, insertion parts each having a through-hole through which the two measuring electrodes respectively extend, the measuring electrodes have at least in sections a non-circular cross section and the through-holes of the two insertion parts have a contour complementary thereto. The pin shaped measuring electrodes are at least partially provided with an external thread and a nut is respectively screwed thereon, by means of which the measuring electrodes and the associated insertion parts are respectively firmly connected to the measuring tube.
G01F 1/58 - Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow by using electric or magnetic effects by electromagnetic flowmeters
49.
CAMERA SYSTEM WITH INTERFERENCE PATTERN SUPPRESSION
The invention relates to a camera system having a sensor which has a multiplicity of pixels that are sensitive to electromagnetic radiation, a semitransparent layer being applied to a receiving side of the sensor, an evaluation unit of the camera system being designed in such a way that an interference pattern occurring on the receiving side of the sensor is suppressed by a correction which is carried out pixel by pixel.
The invention relates to a housing comprising a venting device (10) which is arranged on the housing (2) and which allows an ambient pressure to be supplied to the interior of the housing (2). The venting device (10) is made of a sleeve-like protective cap (11) with lateral openings (12) and a liquid-repellant membrane, and a cavity for receiving the membrane is formed in the interior of the venting device (10). The membrane is arranged such that an opening, which is provided for the pressure supply, in the wall of the housing (2) is covered. In order to prevent the so-called teapot effect and therefore allow a light dripping of a liquid on the venting device (10), the sleeve-like protective cap (11) has a narrow circumferential expansion (14) in the region of the lateral surface of the protective cap such that a defined dripping edge is formed.
The invention relates to a method for fastening a housing for a measuring device of process or automation technology to a wall, which method is characterized by the following method steps: - drilling at least two holes (6) in the wall (2) corresponding to the pattern of holes on the housing rear side (11); - screwing one hexagon socket screw (4) into each of these holes (6), with a spacing between wall and screw head corresponding at least to the thickness of the housing rear side (11); - placing the measuring device housing (10) onto the wall (2) such that the screw heads of the screws (4) located in the wall are each guided through the wide regions of at least two keyhole-like cutouts (12) in the housing rear side (11); - pushing the measuring device housing (11) downwards such that the screw stems of the at least two screws (4) are in each case located in the narrow region of the at least two keyhole-like cutouts (12); - introducing a hexagon key (5) with a spherical head into at least two obliquely running bores (13) such that the ball head engages in the hexagon socket of the screw head and the respective screw (4) is tightened.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Motion measurement apparatus, Distance measuring apparatus; Optical sensors, 2D sensors, 3D sensors, Distance sensors, Position sensors, Radar sensors, Light barriers, Light sensors; Cameras [photography]; Image processing systems; 3D image sensor and System components for 3D image sensors; 2D and 3D measuring systems; Image scanning apparatus; Steering apparatus, automatic, for vehicles; Controls for production monitoring; Computer software for data collection, evaluation, processing and storage; Software for monitoring, analysing, controlling and running physical world operations; apps. Engineering services; Industrial analysis and research services; Technical measurement and testing.
53.
Method for monitoring the function of a capacitive pressure measurement cell
2 are used to determine a linear equation U=f(t), wherein the linear equation U=f(t)
x is used to define a hypothetical switchover point of the comparator-oscillator (SG), from which a hypothetical working frequency is calculated, and an error signal is generated if there is significant deviation of said hypothetical working frequency from the actual working frequency of the comparator-oscillator (SG).
G01L 1/14 - Measuring force or stress, in general by measuring variations in capacitance or inductance of electrical elements, e.g. by measuring variations of frequency of electrical oscillators
G01D 1/16 - Measuring arrangements giving results other than momentary value of variable, of general application giving a value which is a function of two or more values, e.g. product or ratio
G01L 7/08 - Measuring the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by mechanical or fluid pressure-sensitive elements in the form of elastically-deformable gauges of the flexible-diaphragm type
54.
TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERA HAVING A SPAD LIGHT TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSOR
The invention relates to a time-of-flight camera, comprising an illumination means (10) for emitting light pulses and a SPAD light time-of-flight sensor (20) having at least one SPAD pixel, wherein: the at least one SPAD pixel is free of distortion; in order to determine distance, light events occurring at the SPAD pixel are counted with temporal resolution in predefined time intervals; light events are assigned to an object if the number of light events exceeds an evaluation threshold value (AS); an object distance is determined using a time difference between an emitted light pulse and a received light pulse; the SPAD pixel has a first and a second memory; the first memory is used for storing, with temporal resolution, the number of light events, which are detected in order to form a histogram for determining distance; the second memory is used to store a number of background-light events; the histogram events are detected in a histogram interval and the background-light events are detected in a background-light interval; for a distance measurement, both intervals are run through multiple times during a predefined measurement duration; the time-of-flight camera is designed such that the counting of the light events in a light time-of-flight pixel is stopped if either the predefined measurement duration is reached or the number of detected background-light events exceeds a preset background-light threshold value (HS).
The invention relates to a round plug (1) for industrial applications of the automation industry. The round plug (1) comprises a circuit board (20) in the interior of the round plug (1), together with: a sensor element (21) disposed on the circuit board (20); an evaluation circuit (22) applied to the circuit board (20); an interface (S); a collar surface (30) on the periphery of the round plug (1); an axis of rotation (31); and a sleeve-type adjustment element (10), which partly rotates about the axis of rotation (31); wherein: the adjustment element (10) consists of an inner sleeve (11), an outer sleeve (12), a spring wire (13) and a magnet (14), and the magnet (14) is inserted into the outer sleeve (12); the adjustment element (10) is pressed onto the round plug (1) such that the inner sleeve (11) is fixedly and interlockingly connected to the collar surface (30) of the round plug (1); an initial position (G) is assumed by - the movable parts of the adjustment element (10), - the outer sleeve (12) and - the magnet (14) when the spring wire (13) is in spring equilibrium; the sensor element (21) can detect the initial position (G) and, when the adjustment element (10) is rotated out of the initial position (G), can distinguish a first direction of rotation (A) from a second, opposite direction of rotation (B).
G01D 5/14 - Mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing memberMeans for converting the output of a sensing member to another variable where the form or nature of the sensing member does not constrain the means for convertingTransducers not specially adapted for a specific variable using electric or magnetic means influencing the magnitude of a current or voltage
G05G 1/00 - Controlling members, e.g. knobs or handlesAssemblies or arrangements thereofIndicating position of controlling members
H01R 13/66 - Structural association with built-in electrical component
H01R 29/00 - Coupling parts for selective co-operation with a counterpart in different ways to establish different circuits, e.g. for voltage selection, for series/parallel selection
H01R 24/86 - Parallel contacts arranged about a common axis
Operator control unit for a measuring instrument for process or automation engineering, and measuring instrument having an operator control unit of this kind
A light time-of-flight pixel comprising at least one modulation gate (GA, GB) having a mixing and a transfer region (TA, TB), and comprising at least one storage region (SGA, SGB), the transfer region (TA, TB) being arranged between the mixing region and the storage region (SGA, SGB), the transfer region being doped in such a way that a modulation gate voltage present at the modulation gate (GA, GB) opens or closes charge transfer to the storage region (SGA, SGB).
G01S 7/4863 - Detector arrays, e.g. charge-transfer gates
G01S 17/36 - Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only using transmission of continuous waves, whether amplitude-, frequency-, or phase-modulated, or unmodulated with phase comparison between the received signal and the contemporaneously transmitted signal
G01S 7/4914 - Detector arrays, e.g. charge-transfer gates
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Electronic controllers, especially for production
monitoring; computer hardware; network and computer
interfaces; gateways; routers; connectors; repeaters; all
aforesaid goods in particular for recording, evaluating,
selecting, storing and transmitting digital data and as a
link between the transmitters in an OT network and the
receivers in an IT network; gateways and sensors for the
internet of things (IoT); software, especially for
production monitoring and production control; communication
software and network software; interface software; data
collection software; maintenance software; software for data
analysis, data processing and data storage; parameterization
software and operating software; apps. Engineering services; IT programming services; design and
development of computer hardware and software; software as a
service (SaaS) and rental of software; platform as a service
(PaaS).
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
(1) Electronic controllers for production monitoring, namely, electronic controllers being industrial automation controls for process control in industrial production plants, computer hardware, network interfaces and computer interface cards and boards, network gateways, computer routers, electric connectors, ethernet repeaters, all of the aforesaid goods in particular for recording, evaluating, selecting, storing and transmitting digital data and as a link between the transmitters in an Operational Technology (OT) network and the receivers in an Information Technology (IT) network; sensors for the internet of things (IoT), namely sensors for measurement of radar, conductivity, flow of liquids, pressure, liquid level, temperature, vibration, rotational speed, and acceleration; software, for production monitoring and production control for use in factory automation; communication software, namely, downloadable and recorded computer software for receiving digital video over a communication network; network software, namely, wide area network [WAN] operating software; computer operating system interface software; embedded software for monitoring, controlling, and energy optimizing of industrial machines sold as a component of electronic controllers and electronic motor drives; factory automation software, namely, software to integrate manufacturing machine operations, track problems and generate production reports; downloadable software apps for process control in industrial production plants for enabling or managing process control. (1) Engineering services, namely, computer software engineering, computer hardware engineering; Information Technology (IT) programming services, namely, computer programming consultancy and computer programming for others; design and development of computer hardware and software; software as a service (SaaS) services featuring software for custom process optimization solutions for industrial production plants for customizing process optimization, monitoring and optimizing of manufacturing processes; rental of software for custom process optimization solutions for industrial production plants for customizing process optimization, monitoring and optimizing of manufacturing processes; platform as a service (PaaS) featuring computer software platforms for custom process optimization solutions for customizing process optimization in industrial production plants.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Software for monitoring, analysing, controlling and running physical world operations, Especially Cloud-based machine diagnosis software; Computer software for the internet of things.
The invention relates to a light transit time pixel comprising - at least one modulation gate (GA, GB) which has a photoactive region (FAB) and a storage region (MA, MB), said storage region (MA, MB) having a locally increased n-type doping below the modulation gate (GA, GB) and delimiting the photoactive region (FAB) of the modulation gate (GA, GB), - at least one transfer gate (TXA, TXB) which adjoins the storage region (MA, MB) of the modulation gate (GA, GB), - at least one reading diode (DA, DB) which follows the transfer gate (TXA, TXB), - at least one drain gate (DG) which adjoins one side of the light-sensitive region (FAB) of the modulation gate (GA, GB), and - at least one drain diode (DD) which follows the drain gate (DG).
Described is a circuit for background light suppression (SBI, 500) for a light propagation time sensor (22) which operates according to a phase measuring principle and the light propagation time pixels of which have integration nodes or diodes (Ga, Gb, diode_a, diode_b) for the accumulation of charges, having an input stage (50), an operational amplifier (OP) and an SBI current source (SQ), wherein the input phase (50) has bypass and common mode circuits (SBP, SVcm) via which signals of the integration nodes (Ga, Gb, diode_a, diode_b) are guided to the operational amplifier (OP) and via which the operational amplifier (OP) can be switched to a maximum detection or common mode operation, wherein the operational amplifier (OP) is designed such that based on the signals of the integration nodes (Ga, Gb, diode_a, diode_b) switched by the input stage (50) to the operational amplifier (OP), a gate voltage (gate_cs) is generated for the SBI current source (SQ), wherein the SBI current source (SQ) has a first current source (SQ1) for the maximum detection operation and a second and third current source (SQ2a, SQ2b) for the common mode operation, wherein the current sources (SQ1, SQ2a, SQ2b) can be connected via switches (S) to integration nodes (Ga, Gb, diode_a, diode_b).
G01S 7/4913 - Circuits for detection, sampling, integration or read-out
G01S 7/4914 - Detector arrays, e.g. charge-transfer gates
G01S 7/4915 - Time delay measurement, e.g. operational details for pixel componentsPhase measurement
G01S 17/36 - Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only using transmission of continuous waves, whether amplitude-, frequency-, or phase-modulated, or unmodulated with phase comparison between the received signal and the contemporaneously transmitted signal
G01S 17/894 - 3D imaging with simultaneous measurement of time-of-flight at a 2D array of receiver pixels, e.g. time-of-flight cameras or flash lidar
The invention relates to a PMD light transit time sensor (22) for an optical distance measurement system, comprising an array of PMD light transit time pixels (21), said light transit time pixels having diode nodes (Ga, Gb) for an A channel and a B channel (A, B) and being connectable to a corresponding column line (cola, colb) via a first switch (S1) and to a reset potential (vreset) via a second switch (S2). The PMD light transit time sensor comprises multiple shift registers, which are constructed and connected to the pixels such that the two switches (S1, S2) can be switched in an alternating manner on the basis of register entries of the individual registers (FF), wherein multiple columns or rows are at least partly assigned to a shift register; and a switch matrix (80), which is designed such that the column lines (cola, colb) can be connected to one of a plurality of amplifiers (100) and multiple column lines (cola,colb) can be connected to a common amplifier (100). The light transit time sensor (22) is designed such that during an integration time period, the charges photogenerated on the light transit time pixel are accumulated on the diode nodes (diode a, diode b) and the connected column lines (cola, colb).
G01S 7/4863 - Detector arrays, e.g. charge-transfer gates
G01S 7/4914 - Detector arrays, e.g. charge-transfer gates
G01S 17/36 - Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only using transmission of continuous waves, whether amplitude-, frequency-, or phase-modulated, or unmodulated with phase comparison between the received signal and the contemporaneously transmitted signal
64.
Pressure measuring device comprising an air passage provided at a plug connection
A pressure measuring device is disclosed that includes a housing, a pressure measuring cell, evaluation electronics for processing measurement signals generated by the pressure measuring cell, a plug connection formed at the housing for transmitting the processed measurement signals to an external receiving unit, and an air passage which enables pressure compensation between the interior of the housing and the exterior of the housing. The plug connection includes a cylindrical sleeve and an insert part disposed therein, wherein the air passage is formed as a two-part barrier having a first liquid barrier formed as a duct system from the interior of the housing via the plug connection and a second liquid barrier having a liquid-repellent diaphragm and disposed in an area within the duct system, and wherein the insert part has a first recess into which the diaphragm is inserted. The insert part has a second recess, which is arranged at a distance from the first recess and in which a light-emitting diode signalling a status of the measuring device is inserted, wherein the cylindrical sleeve also has a recess at the side opposite the light-emitting diode, which recess on the one hand, acting as a part of the duct system or air passage, allows pressure compensation and, on the other hand, allows the light-emitting diode to be visible.
THREE-DIMENSIONAL CIRCUIT CARRIER, ARRANGEMENT COMPRISING SUCH A CIRCUIT CARRIER AND A METAL SLEEVE, MEASURING INSTRUMENT FOR PROCESS MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY HAVING SUCH AN ARRANGEMENT, AND USE OF SUCH AN ARRANGEMENT
The invention relates to a three-dimensional circuit carrier having a substrate (2), at least two electrical conductor tracks (3a, 3b), at least one sensor element (4) and a connection region (5) for establishing electrical contact between the at least two conductor tracks (3a, 3b) and an electrical conductor (10), wherein the circuit carrier (1) has an elongate shape and the sensor element (4) is arranged at a first end (1a) and the connection region (5) is arranged at an opposite, second end (1b), wherein the two conductor tracks (3a, 3b) run next to one another on the outside of the circuit carrier (1), wherein a first conductor track (3a) electrically connects the sensor element (4) to the connection region (5) and a second conductor track (3b) is suitable for being DC-coupled by a metal mating piece (20), wherein the first end (1a) of the circuit carrier (1) is formed from at least one narrow extension (6) of the substrate (2) and the sensor element (4) is arranged next to this extension (6) in such a way that the sensor element (4) is set back with respect to the longitudinal extent of the narrow extension (6). The invention further relates to an arrangement comprising such a circuit carrier and a metal sleeve, to a measuring instrument having such an arrangement, and to the use of such an arrangement.
G01K 13/02 - Thermometers specially adapted for specific purposes for measuring temperature of moving fluids or granular materials capable of flow
G01F 1/56 - Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow by using electric or magnetic effects
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Actuators for controlling and changing the composition of liquids. Measuring apparatus for condition monitoring of machines; Sensors, for example conductivity sensors , pH sensors , level sensors , flow sensors , pressure sensors or temperature sensors , in particular for monitoring liquids , for example coolants and coolant lubricants; Electronic evaluation devices; calculators , controllers; Monitors, electric displays; Monitoring systems for machine tools , in particular consisting of sensors , computers , monitors and software; Computer hardware; network and computer interfaces, gateways, repeaters, all the aforesaid goods in particular for recording, evaluating, storing and transmitting digital data and as a link between the sensors and the receivers and evaluation devices in a communications network; Software for data collection, data analysis, data processing and data storage, software for monitoring, analyzing, controlling and executing operations in the physical world; application software for mobile devices; apps. Engineering services; technical project planning; technical consultancy in connection with the installation and setting up of monitoring systems for machine tools.
67.
Transmitter for transmitting a process variable to a programmable logic controller
The invention relates to a transmitter for transmitting a process variable to a programmable logic controller. In a current mode a 4-20 milliamp current is fed into a burden and in a voltage mode 0-10 Volt signals are generated. The transmitter includes a process value input, a current stage, a voltage stage and a U/I output for the current or the voltage signal, and a U/I control input for switching between the two modes. The transmitter is configured to feed a current which is dependent on the voltage across the burden into the current stage via a resistor and thus to compensate for a current loss at the voltage stage which is dependent on the voltage across the burden.
H02H 7/20 - Emergency protective circuit arrangements specially adapted for specific types of electric machines or apparatus or for sectionalised protection of cable or line systems, and effecting automatic switching in the event of an undesired change from normal working conditions for electronic equipment
G01R 25/00 - Arrangements for measuring phase angle between a voltage and a current or between voltages or currents
G05B 19/05 - Programmable logic controllers, e.g. simulating logic interconnections of signals according to ladder diagrams or function charts
68.
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE DYNAMIC EXTENSION OF A TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERA SYSTEM
The invention relates to a method for the dynamic extension of raw phase images of a time-of-flight camera or time-of-flight camera system, in which method at least two depth images are taken using different exposure times.
G01S 17/894 - 3D imaging with simultaneous measurement of time-of-flight at a 2D array of receiver pixels, e.g. time-of-flight cameras or flash lidar
G01S 17/36 - Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only using transmission of continuous waves, whether amplitude-, frequency-, or phase-modulated, or unmodulated with phase comparison between the received signal and the contemporaneously transmitted signal
The invention relates to a method for monitoring the function of a capacitive pressure measuring cell (10) which comprises a measurement capacitor (CM) and a reference capacitor (CR) as well as a temperature element, wherein the pressure measurement value p is obtained in an evaluation unit by forming the ratio Q of the capacitance values of the reference capacitor (CR) and the measurement capacitor (CM). In this context, the method is characterized by the following method steps: - the characteristic lines of the ratio Q and of the capacitance values of the measurement capacitor (CM) against pressure were each stored for different temperature scenarios in a lookup table within a calibration procedure; - the determined pressure measurement value p at the temperature measured by the temperature element at this instant is continuously assigned in each case the associated value of the ratio Q and the associated value of the capacitance value of the measurement capacitor (CM) from the lookup table; - the behaviors of the curves of the value of the ratio Q and of the value of the capacitance value of the measurement capacitor (CM) are compared to one another; - in the case of a significant deviation from an expected behavior, the evaluation unit is temporarily transferred into safety operation and the gradient of the temperature element is measured and evaluated in the process; - a temperature compensation is introduced in the case of a significant increase in the gradient of the temperature element or a fault signal is generated in the case of an unchanged gradient of the temperature element.
G01L 9/00 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means
G01D 5/24 - Mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing memberMeans for converting the output of a sensing member to another variable where the form or nature of the sensing member does not constrain the means for convertingTransducers not specially adapted for a specific variable using electric or magnetic means influencing the magnitude of a current or voltage by varying capacitance
G01L 9/12 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means by making use of variations in capacitance
G01L 19/04 - Means for compensating for effects of changes of temperature
G01L 23/12 - Devices or apparatus for measuring or indicating or recording rapid changes, such as oscillations, in the pressure of steam, gas, or liquidIndicators for determining work or energy of steam, internal-combustion, or other fluid-pressure engines from the condition of the working fluid operated electrically by changing capacitance or inductance
G01L 27/00 - Testing or calibrating of apparatus for measuring fluid pressure
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Electronic controllers, especially for production monitoring, namely, electronic controllers being industrial automation controls for process control in industrial production plants; gateways for the internet of things (IoT), namely, gateway routers; Electric or electronic sensors for process control in industrial production plants, namely sensors for measurement of radar, conductivity, flow, pressure, level, temperature, vibration, rotational speed, and acceleration; downloadable software apps for process control in industrial production plants for enabling or managing process control excluding any goods for monitoring and calculating energy efficiency, energy consumption, energy costs, energy usage, energy savings, and energy design assistance for buildings. Software as a service (SaaS) services featuring software for custom process optimization solutions for industrial production plants for customizing process optimization, monitoring and optimizing of manufacturing processes; rental of software for custom process optimization solutions for industrial production plants for customizing process optimization, monitoring and optimizing of manufacturing processes; platform as a service (Paas) featuring computer software platforms for custom process optimization solutions for customizing process optimization in industrial production plants excluding any goods and services for monitoring and calculating energy efficiency, energy consumption, energy costs, energy usage, energy savings, and energy design assistance for buildings
71.
CURRENT INTERFACE FOR GENERATING AN ANALOGUE OUTPUT CURRENT OF 4 TO 20 MA, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A CURRENT INTERFACE
The invention relates to a current interface for generating an analogue output current of 4 to 20 mA, which is intended for feeding a load (1) and corresponds to a measured value of a sensor (2), said interface having at least one current source (3) for generating a measurement current (4) and a compensation current (5), and also having a detection circuit (6) for identifying deviations in the measurement current (4) from a target value, and an evaluation unit (7), characterised in that the evaluation unit (7) is designed to measure the voltage dropping across the load (1), and additionally to detect the current required for this measurement and to feed this as a compensation current of equal absolute value into the load (1) in order to thus correct the output current falsified by the voltage measurement. A method for operating this current interface is additionally claimed.
G01D 3/036 - Measuring arrangements with provision for the special purposes referred to in the subgroups of this group mitigating undesired influences, e.g. temperature, pressure on measuring arrangements themselves
The disclosure relates to a device for converting a pressure into an electric signal. The device has a first deformation body in the form of a first membrane, via which the pressure can be introduced into the device, and a second deformation body in the form of a second membrane, by means of the deflection of which the applied pressure can be converted into an electric signal. The device has a force transmitting means for transmitting pressure and/or tensile forces from the first deformation body to the second deformation body. Either the force transmitting means is designed as a separate part and the two membranes have a bore into which the force transmitting means is at least partly introduced and in which the force transmitting means is connected to the respective membrane, or the force transmitting means is integrally formed with one of the two membranes and the corresponding other membrane has a bore into which the force transmitting means is at least partly introduced and in which the force transmitting means is connected to said membrane.
G01L 19/00 - Details of, or accessories for, apparatus for measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluent medium insofar as such details or accessories are not special to particular types of pressure gauges
G01L 19/06 - Means for preventing overload or deleterious influence of the measured medium on the measuring device or vice versa
74.
TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERA SYSTEM HAVING AN ADJUSTABLE OPTICAL POWER OUTPUT
The disclosure relates to a time-of-flight camera comprising an illumination for emitting a modulated light, a light propagation time sensor, an illumination circuit for operating the illumination, a clock generator for generating a modulation signal, wherein the clock generator is designed in such a way that individual pulses of the modulation signal can be suppressed within a predetermined time interval.
The invention relates to a housing comprising a venting device (10) which is arranged on the housing (2) and which allows an ambient pressure to be supplied to the interior of the housing (2). The venting device (10) is made of a sleeve-like protective cap (11) with lateral openings (12) and a liquid-repellant membrane, and a cavity for receiving the membrane is formed in the interior of the venting device (10). The membrane is arranged such that an opening, which is provided for the pressure supply, in the wall of the housing (2) is covered. In order to prevent the so-called teapot effect and therefore allow a light dripping of a liquid on the venting device (10), the sleeve-like protective cap (11) has a narrow circumferential expansion (14) in the region of the lateral surface of the protective cap such that a defined dripping edge is formed.
G01L 19/00 - Details of, or accessories for, apparatus for measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluent medium insofar as such details or accessories are not special to particular types of pressure gauges
G01L 19/06 - Means for preventing overload or deleterious influence of the measured medium on the measuring device or vice versa
x-SOLL) is determined, and if there is significant deviation between the pair of actual values and the pair of nominal values, an error signal is generated.
G01L 9/00 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means
G01L 9/12 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means by making use of variations in capacitance
G01L 27/00 - Testing or calibrating of apparatus for measuring fluid pressure
77.
Screw-in arrangement composed of a measuring device and a container
The invention relates to an arrangement composed of a measuring device and a container, wherein the measuring device (1) is suited for insertion into the container, which contains the medium to be measured, and wherein the container for receiving the measuring device (1) has a connector piece (20) having a passage opening extending in an axial direction and a seal land (22) projecting into the passage opening, wherein the measuring device (1) comprises a rotationally symmetric housing part (10), which is flush with the connector piece (20) and has an external cone portion (11), which forms with an internal cone portion (21) provided on the connector piece (20) a beveled sealing surface pair. According to the invention, the sealing element in the region of the external and internal cone portions (11, 21) consists in the front end section, which faces the medium, at least partially of a plastic, especially PEEK, or an elastomer and consists in the adjoining second section (32), facing away from the medium, of metal or ceramic or a fiber-reinforced plastic so that a defined and thus pressure- and force-resistant stop results in the axial direction between the external cone portion (11) of the measuring device (1) and the internal cone portion (21) of the connector piece (20), while independently thereof the sealing function is achieved exclusively in the front end section (31), facing the medium, of the sealing element (30).
G01L 19/00 - Details of, or accessories for, apparatus for measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluent medium insofar as such details or accessories are not special to particular types of pressure gauges
F16J 15/12 - Sealings between relatively-stationary surfaces with solid packing compressed between sealing surfaces with non-metallic packing with metal reinforcement or covering
c) has a further data receiver (4) connected to it, and wherein the Y selector switch unit (10) comprises a microcontroller (11) in which the sensor (3) is simulated by means of software so that the further data receiver (4) can query data of the sensor (3) without having to directly access or engage with the sensor (3) or the communication thereof with the controller (2).
H04L 67/12 - Protocols specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
79.
Camera and method for checking an alignment of such a camera
A method for checking an alignment of a 2D or 3D camera, wherein a reference image is detected and stored in a first preferred alignment of the camera, wherein a current image is detected to check the alignment of the camera, wherein the reference image is provided monochrome with a first color and the current image is provided monochrome with a second color that differs from the first color, and wherein the current image and the reference image are displayed as an image mixing.
The disclosure relates to a communication system for automation and process engineering, having a controller as a signal receiver and a sensor as a signal source, which interchange voltage and/or current signals via a connection line, wherein the sensor is suitable for providing digital data according to the IO-Link standard, and the controller has only an analogue and/or switching signal input. In order to make it possible for the user to be able to easily access the data from an IO-Link-enabled sensor in the communication system if the control unit itself is not suitable for this purpose, the communication line is divided into two partial lines and a Y selector switch unit is used at the connection point, wherein a first connection is provided on the sensor side and a second and a third connection are provided on the controller side on the Y selector switch unit, wherein the controller is connected to the second connection and a further data receiver is connected to the third connection, and wherein the Y selector switch unit provides the further data receiver with the digital data according to the IO-Link standard from the sensor at the third connection and comprises an evaluation and processing unit which taps off the digital data according to the IO-Link standard from the sensor, extracts a binary switching signal therefrom and provides the controller with said signal at the second connection, with the result that the further data receiver can query the digital data from the sensor and can access the sensor without the signals between the sensor and the controller being influenced thereby.
G06F 3/00 - Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computerOutput arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
G05B 19/042 - Programme control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers using digital processors
G05B 19/418 - Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM]
G06F 13/14 - Handling requests for interconnection or transfer
81.
Light propagation time pixel and light propagation time sensor with corresponding pixel
The disclosure relates to a light propagation time pixel, comprising modulation gates and integration nodes which are arranged on the upper face of a photosensitive semiconductor region. The photosensitive semiconductor region is designed as an N-epitaxy and is delimited laterally and/or at the corners by p-doped vertical p-structures. A buried layer with a p-doping adjoins the lower face of the photosensitive semiconductor region, and the vertical p-structures are in electric contact with the buried layer.
G01S 7/4865 - Time delay measurement, e.g. time-of-flight measurement, time of arrival measurement or determining the exact position of a peak
G01S 17/36 - Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only using transmission of continuous waves, whether amplitude-, frequency-, or phase-modulated, or unmodulated with phase comparison between the received signal and the contemporaneously transmitted signal
G01S 17/894 - 3D imaging with simultaneous measurement of time-of-flight at a 2D array of receiver pixels, e.g. time-of-flight cameras or flash lidar
MRE012COM121122xxxx is compared with the actual switchover time of the comparator-oscillator (SG) and an error signal is generated in the event of significant deviation, - or the time tx is used to define a hypothetical switchover point of the comparator-oscillator (SG), from which a hypothetical working frequency is calculated, and an error signal is generated if there is significant deviation of said hypothetical working frequency from the actual working frequency of the comparator-oscillator (SG).
G01L 1/14 - Measuring force or stress, in general by measuring variations in capacitance or inductance of electrical elements, e.g. by measuring variations of frequency of electrical oscillators
G01D 5/24 - Mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing memberMeans for converting the output of a sensing member to another variable where the form or nature of the sensing member does not constrain the means for convertingTransducers not specially adapted for a specific variable using electric or magnetic means influencing the magnitude of a current or voltage by varying capacitance
G01D 18/00 - Testing or calibrating apparatus or arrangements provided for in groups
G01L 25/00 - Testing or calibrating of apparatus for measuring force, torque, work, mechanical power, or mechanical efficiency
G01L 27/00 - Testing or calibrating of apparatus for measuring fluid pressure
G01L 9/00 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means
83.
ABSOLUTE PRESSURE GAUGE HAVING A RELATIVE-MEASUREMENT PRESSURE MEASUREMENT CELL
The disclosure relates to a pixel array for a camera, in particular for a light propagation time camera, having: a plurality of pixel elements arranged in a matrix arrangement, wherein each individual pixel element has a photoelectric region and at least one other region which is non-sensitive to light; and a plurality of routing paths which are arranged in a grid-like manner and which divide the pixel array into fields. A group of first fields and a group of second fields are created, in which each of the first fields is provided by a photoelectric region of one of the pixel elements and each of the second fields is provided by the other regions, wherein the first fields and the second fields are arranged in an alternating manner similar to a chessboard. The disclosure further relates to a corresponding camera, in particular a light propagation time camera for a light propagation time camera system, and to a corresponding light propagation time camera system.
H01L 27/14 - Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy
H04N 5/345 - Extracting pixel data from an image sensor by controlling scanning circuits, e.g. by modifying the number of pixels having been sampled or to be sampled by partially reading an SSIS array
H04N 5/3745 - Addressed sensors, e.g. MOS or CMOS sensors having additional components embedded within a pixel or connected to a group of pixels within a sensor matrix, e.g. memories, A/D converters, pixel amplifiers, shared circuits or shared components
85.
Capacitive pressure measurement device with varying frequency
The disclosure relates to a method for operating a capacitive pressure measurement device. In order to achieve an insensitivity to external signal sources, the disclosure proposes continuously varying the working frequency of the pressure measurement device so that a resonance formation with externally injected (interfering) frequencies is avoided.
G01L 19/06 - Means for preventing overload or deleterious influence of the measured medium on the measuring device or vice versa
G01L 9/12 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means by making use of variations in capacitance
The disclosure relates to a magnetoinductive flowmeter. In order to detect gas bubbles in a measuring tube, and thus an incompletely filled measuring tube, the control signal with which the magnetic field generating device is actuated is designed as an alternating rectangular pulse with time delays. A first pulse time delay is provided after a positive rectangular pulse and a second pulse time delay is provided after a negative rectangular pulse during one period, wherein no magnetic fields are provided during the pulse time delays. The measurement signal is evaluated during the duration of the rectangular pulses (MB+, MB−) in order to ascertain the flow speed of the medium and during the duration of the time delays (Mess1 , Mess2) in order to monitor the functionality, wherein the impedence between the two measurement electrodes is ascertained via the noise level of the measurement signal during the time delays (Mess1 , Mess2), and the noise level of the measurement signal during the time delays (Mess1 , Mess2) is a measurement of a malfunction, the impedance between the two measurement electrodes being influenced by air bubbles or foreign particles in the measurement medium.
G01F 1/58 - Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow by using electric or magnetic effects by electromagnetic flowmeters
G01F 1/74 - Devices for measuring flow of a fluid or flow of a fluent solid material in suspension in another fluid
G01F 25/10 - Testing or calibration of apparatus for measuring volume, volume flow or liquid level or for metering by volume of flowmeters
87.
OPERATOR CONTROL UNIT FOR A MEASURING INSTRUMENT FOR PROCESS OR AUTOMATION ENGINEERING, AND MEASURING INSTRUMENT HAVING AN OPERATOR CONTROL UNIT OF THIS KIND
The invention relates to an operator control unit for a measuring instrument for process or automation engineering, the operator control unit consisting of at least two adjacently arranged control panels (10a), the control panels (10a) being operated by pressing on a respective shape-variable or elastic housing region (2a) having a respective capacitive sensor element (11) disposed thereunder. The sensor elements (11) each have a first electrode (11a) as a lower plate capacitor and a counter-electrode (11b) arranged in parallel thereabove as an upper plate capacitor, and pressing on one of the housing regions (2a) causes the respective upper plate capacitor (11b) to approach the respective lower plate capacitor (11a), thus changing the capacitance. The first electrode (11a) is attached to a first carrier material (12) and the counter-electrode (11b) is attached to a second carrier material (13). According to the invention, the housing regions (2a) are arranged adjacently to one another in an uninterrupted manner, and the sensor elements (11) are parts of a multi-layered composite printed circuit board (100), which bears against the inner sides of the housing regions (2a), wherein the composite printed circuit board (100) comprises at least the first carrier material (12), which consists of a plurality of segments of rigid circuit boards each with flexible intermediate pieces arranged therebetween, and the second carrier material (13) in the form of a conductive layer, which two carrier materials are spaced apart from one another via an interposed plastic layer (15), forming a measuring chamber (17), and wherein the plastic layer (15) has a plurality of interruptions for forming the sensor elements (11) and a decoupling region (16) between the control panels (10a).
The invention relates to a communication system for automation and process technology, having a control unit (2) as a signal receiver and a sensor (3) as a signal source, which exchange voltage and/or current signals via a connection line, wherein the sensor (3) is suitable for providing digital data based on the IO-Link standard. In order to allow the user to be able to also access data of a sensor, which is in a communication system, from outside of the control unit in order to control an actuator in a simple manner, the communication line is divided into two line sections and a Y selector switch unit (10) is used at the junction, wherein the Y selector switch unit (10) is provided with a first connection (10a) on the sensor side and with a second and a third connection (10b, 10c) on the controller side, wherein the second connection (10b) has the control unit (2) connected to it and the third connection (10c) has an actuator (4) connected to it, and wherein the Y selector switch unit (10) provides the digital data based on the IO-Link standard of the sensor (3) at the second connection (10b) of the control unit (2) and comprises an evaluation and processing unit (11) which taps off the digital data based on the IO-Link standard from the sensor (3), extracts a binary switching signal therefrom and provides the actuator (4) with said signal at the third connection (10c), with the result that the actuator (4) can be controlled with data from the sensor (3) without the signals between the sensor (3) and the control unit (2) being influenced thereby.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Measuring apparatus apparatus for the condition monitoring of machines; Sensors, including inductive, capacitive and optoelectronic sensors, 2D and 3D sensors; Electronic and optoelectronic evaluation apparatus; Calculators, electronic controllers; Monitors, touchscreen and Electricity indicators; Audible and visual alarms; Worker assistance systems, in particular consisting of sensors, calculators, monitor and computer software; Computer software for data collection, evaluation, processing and storage, Software for monitoring, analysing, controlling and running physical world operations; apps. Engineering services; Technical project studies; Technical consultancy in connection with the aforesaid goods in class 9.
90.
Capacitive sensor for the automotive sector with a charge amplifier
Capacitive door handle sensor comprising at least one transmission electrode and a reception electrode, an operational amplifier configured as a charge amplifier and connected to the reception electrode, a switch for charge transfer, a first and a second switch for discharging the two operational amplifier inputs and, a capacitor arranged between the output and the inverting input of the operational amplifier, and a control unit for controlling and evaluating the measurement, wherein the control unit comprises a reference potential switching output which is connected to a terminal of the switch and is configured to selectively control a capacitance measurement between the transmission electrodes and the reception electrode or between the reception electrode and ground. Furthermore, methods for setting different operating modes are claimed.
G01D 5/24 - Mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing memberMeans for converting the output of a sensing member to another variable where the form or nature of the sensing member does not constrain the means for convertingTransducers not specially adapted for a specific variable using electric or magnetic means influencing the magnitude of a current or voltage by varying capacitance
An optical sensor device configured to detect a time of flight of an electromagnetic signal includes a semiconductor substrate having a main surface and a conversion region configured to convert at least a fraction of the electromagnetic signal into photo-generated charge carriers; a first control electrode formed in a trench extending from the main surface into the semiconductor substrate; a second control electrode disposed directly or indirectly on the main surface; a control circuit configured to apply a varying first potential to the first control electrode and to apply a varying second potential to the second control electrode, where the varying second potential has a fixed phase relationship to the first varying potential, to generate electric potential distributions in the conversion region to direct the photo-generated charge carriers; and a readout node arranged in the semiconductor substrate and configured to detect the directed photo-generated charge carriers.
G01S 7/4914 - Detector arrays, e.g. charge-transfer gates
G01S 7/4915 - Time delay measurement, e.g. operational details for pixel componentsPhase measurement
G01S 17/36 - Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only using transmission of continuous waves, whether amplitude-, frequency-, or phase-modulated, or unmodulated with phase comparison between the received signal and the contemporaneously transmitted signal
A method for checking the completeness of a container provided with a plurality of objects by means of a 3D camera includes providing a three-dimensional image of the objects and a multi-ROI. The multi-ROI includes a plurality of ROIs which have a user-settable shape and are arranged within the multi-ROI in a user-settable number of rows, columns and raster type, including a learning mode and a temporally subsequent working mode.
G06K 9/00 - Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints
B07C 5/00 - Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or featureSorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
G01B 11/06 - Measuring arrangements characterised by the use of optical techniques for measuring length, width, or thickness for measuring thickness
G06T 7/593 - Depth or shape recovery from multiple images from stereo images
G06T 7/70 - Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras
H04N 13/204 - Image signal generators using stereoscopic image cameras
G06K 9/32 - Aligning or centering of the image pick-up or image-field
G06T 3/40 - Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
G06T 3/60 - Rotation of whole images or parts thereof
The disclosure relates to a time-of-flight camera comprising: a time-of-flight sensor having several time-of-flight pixels for determining a phase shift of emitted and captured light, distance values being determined in accordance with the detected phase shifts, characterised in that the time-of-flight camera has a memory in which parameters of a point spread function, which characterise the time-of-flight camera and the time-of-flight sensor, are stored; an evaluation unit which is designed to deploy a detected complex-valued image in Fourier space, in accordance with the stored point-spread function, and a complex-valued image corrected by diffused light is determined and the phase shifts or distance values are determined using the corrected complex-valued image.
G01S 17/36 - Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only using transmission of continuous waves, whether amplitude-, frequency-, or phase-modulated, or unmodulated with phase comparison between the received signal and the contemporaneously transmitted signal
G01S 7/48 - Details of systems according to groups , , of systems according to group
G01S 17/894 - 3D imaging with simultaneous measurement of time-of-flight at a 2D array of receiver pixels, e.g. time-of-flight cameras or flash lidar
94.
CAPACITIVE DOOR HANDLE SENSOR HAVING AN ANTENNA FOR NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION
The invention relates to a capacitive sensor (1) having a capacitive sensor electrode (2) and an antenna (3), which surrounds the capacitive sensor electrode (2) or is arranged in the direct vicinity thereof and is suitable for near field communication (NFC), and which has a centre tap (4), and is connected to a symmetrically operated NFC transceiver (6) via an antenna tuner (5), wherein, according to the invention, an auxiliary signal synchronized with the measurement signal of the capacitive sensor (1) is applied to the centre tap (4) of the NFC antenna (3).
The invention relates to a light propagation time pixel, comprising modulation gates (ModA, Mod0, ModB) and integration nodes (Ga, Gb) which are arranged on the upper face of a photosensitive semiconductor region (100). The photosensitive semiconductor region (100) is designed as an N-epitaxy and is delimited laterally and/or at the corners by p-doped vertical p-structures (105). A buried layer (102) with a p-doping adjoins the lower face of the photosensitive semiconductor region (100), and the vertical p-structures (105) are in electric contact with the buried layer (102).
A method for operating a camera system for detecting codings, in which positions of contour points of the codings are determined in relation to edges of a search zone of the camera system, wherein a reading reliability of the search zone is determined from a distance of the contour points from the edges of the search zone.
MRMRRMMx-ISTx-ISTx-SOLLx-SOLLx-SOLL) is determined, and if there is significant deviation between the pair of actual values and the pair of nominal values, an error signal is generated.
G01L 9/12 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means by making use of variations in capacitance
G01L 27/00 - Testing or calibrating of apparatus for measuring fluid pressure
98.
METHOD FOR MONITORING THE OPERATION OF A PRESSURE MEASURING CELL OF A CAPACITIVE PRESSURE SENSOR
MRMRRMMRR, the pulse height is measured at least twice during at least one pulse width, and the measured voltage values are stored in a memory (40), and wherein the at least two voltage values per pulse width are compared with each other in terms of the value thereof, and if they significantly deviate from each other, an error signal is generated.
G01L 9/12 - Measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or a fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elementsTransmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means by making use of variations in capacitance
G01L 27/00 - Testing or calibrating of apparatus for measuring fluid pressure
99.
DEVICE FOR CONVERTING A PRESSURE INTO AN ELECTRIC SIGNAL, AND ELECTRONIC PRESSURE MEASURING DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE
The invention relates to a device for converting a pressure into an electric signal. The device has a first deformation body in the form of a first membrane, via which the pressure can be introduced into the device, and a second deformation body in the form of a second membrane, by means of the deflection of which the applied pressure can be converted into an electric signal. The device has a force transmitting means for transmitting pressure and/or tensile forces from the first deformation body to the second deformation body. Either the force transmitting means is designed as a separate part and the two membranes have a bore into which the force transmitting means is at least partly introduced and in which the force transmitting means is connected to the respective membrane, or the force transmitting means is integrally formed with one of the two membranes and the corresponding other membrane has a bore into which the force transmitting means is at least partly introduced and in which the force transmitting means is connected to said membrane.
G01L 19/00 - Details of, or accessories for, apparatus for measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluent medium insofar as such details or accessories are not special to particular types of pressure gauges
G01L 19/06 - Means for preventing overload or deleterious influence of the measured medium on the measuring device or vice versa
100.
TIME-OF-FLIGHT CAMERA SYSTEM HAVING AN ADJUSTABLE OPTICAL POWER OUTPUT
The invention relates to a time-of-flight camera comprising an illumination for emitting a modulated light, a light propagation time sensor, an illumination circuit for operating the illumination, a clock generator for generating a modulation signal, wherein the clock generator is designed in such a way that individual pulses of the modulation signal can be suppressed within a predetermined time interval.
G01S 17/36 - Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only using transmission of continuous waves, whether amplitude-, frequency-, or phase-modulated, or unmodulated with phase comparison between the received signal and the contemporaneously transmitted signal
G01S 17/89 - Lidar systems, specially adapted for specific applications for mapping or imaging
