Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland Gmbh

Fresenius Ag

Franz-Wilhelm Koerdt

Klaus Metzner

Dejan Nikolic

Peter Scheunert

Detlef Westphal

Andreas Wild

Alexander Kuhn

Hans Georg H&uuml;lsmann

Peter Kaiser

Uwe Lapp

Gunther Grimm

This invention relates to the field of signal transit time sensors, in particular sensors based on ultrasonic transit times. Existing electronic control circuits for such transit time sensors for measurements on medical liquids, in particular blood, are extremely complex or their time resolution is limited. However, the present invention makes use of a simple measurement technique which cannot be used directly at first for the time resolution to be achieved. In this method, an ordinary sampling method is used to detect the received signal (). An oscillator-like received signal () generated by an emitted step-like signal is first sampled during a half-period () and is checked with the help of a selection criterion. Only when the result of this check is positive is at least one interpolated or extrapolated contact point () of the received signal () with a resting level () determined in a received signal-time diagram with the help of which the signal transit time or the change in signal transit time is determined.

Acoustic method for measuring a signal propagation time in a medical liquid and device for using this method

The invention relates to a device and method for carrying out a contactless measurement of the conductivity of a liquid situated in a flow channel, and to the use of said device and method. According to the invention, the invention provides that a toroidal coil is precisely arranged around the flow channel. Said toroidal coil is interconnected with a capacitor to an oscillating circuit. The invention also provides that the electric characteristics of this circuit are then measured according to the conductivity which is sought after.

Device and method for carrying out a contactless measurement of the conductivity of a liquid situated in a flow channel

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Bad Nauheim, Germany

Franz-Wilhelm Koerdt