US 12,152,942 B2
Noninvasive thermometer
Daniel Koch, Oy-Mittelberg (DE); Marc Schalles, Erfurt (DE); Harald Bründl, Schwabhausen (DE); Stephan Wiedemann, Bihlerdorf (DE); Peter Wiedemann, Weitnau (DE); Torsten Iselt, Kempten (DE); Christian Peuker, Immenstadt (DE); Pavo Vrdoljak, Nesselwang (DE); Georg Wolf, Marktoberdorf (DE); Christian Kallweit, Memmingen (DE); Markus Mornhinweg, Dießen (DE); and Alfred Umkehrer, Hopferau (DE)
Assigned to ENDRESS+HAUSER WETZER GMBH+CO. KG, Nesselwang (DE)
Appl. No. 17/753,673
Filed by Endress+Hauser Wetzer GmbH+Co. KG, Nesselwang (DE)
PCT Filed Aug. 20, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/073390
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 10, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/047882, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 18, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 124 604.0 (DE), filed on Sep. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0044723 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. G01K 13/02 (2021.01); G01K 1/143 (2021.01); G01K 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01K 13/02 (2013.01) [G01K 1/143 (2013.01); G01K 15/005 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for determining and/or monitoring a temperature or flow of a medium in a containment, the apparatus comprising:
a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature;
a flexible, heat-conducting support element including a support element inner side which is disposable on an outer surface of a wall of the containment, and a support element outer side, and wherein the temperature sensor is secured upon the support element outer side; and
a thermal insulation unit, which at least partially surrounds the support element, wherein the temperature sensor is disposed between the support element and the thermal insulation unit in a layered arrangement including as an innermost layer the support element and as an outermost layer the thermal insulation unit.