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US 8,127,622 B2Granted
Electromagnetic flowmeter having a detachable measuring tune from the body
AssigneeSMC Corporation
InventorsHiroshi Kawakami, Tsukasa Yamamoto, Junya Abe
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Abstract
An electromagnetic flowmeter is equipped with a pipe unit including a pipe through which a fluid to be measured flows, a pair of electrodes adhered to the pipe, and substrate holders that retain substrates therein and which are disposed so as to cover the electrodes. In addition, the pipe unit is accommodated inside a body through a first opening, which opens on one side of the body. A solenoid unit including coils is installed on the pipe unit after being inserted into the interior of the body through first and second openings.
Claims9
An electromagnetic flowmeter comprising:
- a body;
- a measurement tube accommodated in the interior of the body and having a flow passage through which a fluid to be measured flows;
- a pair of electrodes disposed opposing each other on an outer circumferential side of the measurement tube and configured to detect an electromotive force generated by a flow of the fluid to be measured;
- and
- a solenoid unit disposed transversely to the electrodes on the outer circumferential side of the measurement tube, and having coils, which are each wound around a core and are excited by supplying electricity thereto and which generate a magnetic field inside the measurement tube, wherein the solenoid unit comprises a pair of yokes configured to retain the coils and the cores, the yokes being arranged opposing each other and sandwiching the measurement tube therebetween,
- wherein the measurement tube is disposed detachably with respect to the body, and
- the yokes each include a planar surface portion having four sides, and each of the four sides has a bent portion protruding therefrom which is centered about a respective one of the coils toward a side of the measurement tube, wherein at least two of the four sides are bent perpendicular to the planar surface portion to thereby provide barrier walls configured to prevent leakage of magnetic flux from the coils.
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