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US 10,295,389 B2Granted
Fill level measurement device
AssigneeEndress + Hauser GmbH + Co. KG
InventorsDirk Osswald, Ralf Reimelt, Herbert Schroth
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a fill level measuring device for measuring a fill level of a liquid material in a container, including at least two flexible wire probes that extend into the container, a signal generator, and an end weight for each flexible wire probe. The end-weights are joined together such that they can rotate with respect to each other and/or can move in an axial direction with respect to each other.
Claims13
A fill level measuring device for measuring a fill level of a liquid material in a container, comprising:
- at least two flexible wire probes that extend into the container;
- a signal generator embodied to generate an electromagnetic measurement signal and to provide the electromagnetic measurement signal to the flexible wire probes, wherein the flexible wire probes are embodied to receive and to guide the electromagnetic measurement signal;
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- an end-weight for each flexible wire probe, each end-weight connected to a corresponding flexible wire probe of the least two flexible probes and embodied to apply an axial tensile force to at least a portion of the length of its corresponding flexible wire probe,
- wherein the end-weights are fit together such that they can rotate with respect to each other and/or can move in an axial direction with respect to each other, said axial direction being parallel and/or antiparallel to a direction defined by the axial tensile force on the corresponding flexible wire probe.
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