Device for detecting at least one property of a fluid medium

• US 9,618,373 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2012
• Issued: 04/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Mais, Torsten, Wagner, Ulrich
• Primary Examiner(s): CAPUTO, LISA M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Tran M
• Application Number:
  US14/004,652
• Publication Number:
  US 20140060176A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,912 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 1/684 Structural arrangements; Mounting of elements, e.g. in relation to fluid flow
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 1/6842 with means for influencing the fluid flow
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 15/14 Casings, e.g. of special material

Abstract

A device for detecting at least one property of a fluid medium has at least one sensor housing introducible into the fluid medium, which sensor housing has at least one channel through which the fluid medium flows and which has at least one outlet opening. The fluid medium flows out through the outlet opening after flowing through the channel. The sensor housing has at least one housing body and at least one cover. The outlet opening is situated in the cover. The housing body has at least one collar section, which engages with the outlet opening and which forms at least one part of an edge of the outlet opening.

Claims

1. A device for detecting at least one property of a fluid medium, comprising:

at least one sensor housing configured to be introduced into the fluid medium;

wherein;

the sensor housing includes;

(i) at least one channel configured for flow of the fluid medium therethrough;

(ii) at least one housing body; and

(iii) at least one cover;

a bore through the cover forms an outlet opening through which the fluid medium is able to flow out of the at least one channel; and

the housing body has at least one collar section that extends into the bore so that the collar section forms an edge of the outlet opening, wherein at the outlet opening, the at least one channel has a ramp extending obliquely to the outer side of the at least one cover, and wherein the edge is beveled at an interface with the ramp.

2. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one hot-film, airflow meter sensor element is accommodated in the at least one channel.

3. The device as recited in claim 2, wherein the at least one channel includes at least one main channel and at least one bypass channel branching off of the at least one main channel, and wherein the sensor element is accommodated in the at least one bypass channel.

4. The device as recited in claim 3, wherein the sensor housing is configured at least partially as a plug-in sensor which is introduced into a flow tube containing the fluid medium.

5. The device as recited in claim 3, wherein:

the at least one cover has an outer side facing the fluid medium; and

the edge of the outlet opening forms at least one part of the ramp.

6. The device as recited in claim 5, wherein the ramp ends at the outer side at an angle of 30°

to 60°

.

7. The device as recited in claim 5, wherein the ramp is:

(i) formed completely by the housing body;

or (ii) formed partially by the housing body and partially by the cover.

8. The device as recited in claim 5, wherein the edge of the outlet opening formed by the collar section is situated at a downstream section of the outlet opening with respect to a main flow direction of the fluid medium.

9. The device as recited in claim 8, wherein the collar section has a wedge-shaped cross section in a sectional plane perpendicular to an outer side of the cover.

10. The device as recited in claim 8, wherein the collar section extends into the cover by at least 20% of a thickness of the cover at the outlet opening.