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AssigneeVOSS Automotive GmbH
InventorsSascha Rosenfeldt, Christian Zwillus, Waldemar Wilms, Steve Inniger
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A line connector for a fluid and a ready-made medial line including the line connector. The line connector includes a connecting piece with a flow-through channel in the interior thereof and extending in a longitudinal direction of the connecting piece. The connecting piece has at each of its two ends a coupling section that is designed such that a flexible media line or a tubing or an aggregate can be connected to an aggregate connector. The flow-through channel is provided with an electrical heating unit. In the region of the flow-through channel, between the connecting sections, a circumferential enclosed receiving housing is formed on the coupling piece and in which an optical sensor unit is disposed for measuring characteristics of the fluid flowing in the flow-through channel. The ready-made media line includes the line connector and a tubular media line connected on one or both ends thereof.
A line connector for a fluid, the line connector comprising a connecting piece with a flow-through channel configured to contact flowing fluid in an interior thereof and extending in a longitudinal direction of the connecting piece, the connecting piece having a coupling section at each end thereof configured to connect a flexible media line or a tubing or an aggregate to an aggregate connector, the flow-through channel being provided with an electrical heating unit, an optically permeable wall section being formed in a wall of the coupling piece surrounding the flow-through channel and between the coupling sections, and a receiving housing closed about its circumference being formed on the connecting piece and surrounding the permeable wall section, the receiving housing including a receiving opening positioned opposite the permeable wall section and configured for mounting of an optical sensor unit inside of the receiving housing, a flow cross-section of the flow-through channel defined adjacent to the permeable wall section being smaller than an effective flow cross-section of the flow-through channel defined in the coupling sections.
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