US 12,281,929 B2
Vibronic sensor
Tobias Brengartner, Emmendingen (DE); Jan Schleiferböck, Rümmingen (DE); and Benjamin Monse, Vogtsburg (DE)
Assigned to Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG, Maulburg (DE)
Appl. No. 18/002,345
Filed by Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG, Maulburg (DE)
PCT Filed Jun. 16, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/066258
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 19, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/255102, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 23, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 116 281.2 (DE), filed on Jun. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0228614 A1, Jul. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. G01F 23/296 (2022.01); G01F 1/667 (2022.01); G01H 11/06 (2006.01); G01N 11/16 (2006.01); G01N 29/42 (2006.01)
CPC G01F 23/296 (2013.01) [G01F 1/667 (2013.01); G01H 11/06 (2013.01); G01N 11/16 (2013.01); G01N 29/42 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vibronic sensor for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable of a medium in a container comprises:
a mechanically vibratable unit;
a drive/receiving unit;
an electronic unit including a first adaptive filter; and
a detection unit,
wherein the drive/receiving unit is designed to excite mechanical vibrations in the mechanically vibratable unit via an electrical excitation signal and is further designed to receive mechanical vibrations of the mechanically vibratable unit and convert the received mechanical vibrations into an electrical reception signal,
wherein the electronic unit is designed to generate the electrical excitation signal on the basis of the electrical reception signal and to determine the at least one process variable from the electrical reception signal,
wherein the electronic unit is designed to set a filter characteristic of the first adaptive filter to produce a target phase offset between the electrical excitation signal and the electrical reception signal,
wherein the detection unit is designed to determine a phase offset between the electrical excitation signal and the electrical reception signal and an amplitude of the reception signal using a quadrature demodulation,
wherein the detection unit includes a first and/or a second reference unit for generating a first and/or a second reference signal for performing the quadrature demodulation,
wherein the first and/or second reference unit is/are designed to generate the first and/or second reference signal on the basis of the electrical reception signal,
wherein one of the two reference units includes a first phase shifter for generating one of the reference signals with a phase offset of +/−90° with respect to the electrical reception signal, and
wherein the first phase shifter is a second adaptive filter of identical design to the first adaptive filter, an all-pass filter, or a Hilbert transform.