Patent ID: 9285254
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: G01F

Claim Text:
1. A flowmeter for liquids, having a measuring housing which encloses and rotatably mounts an impeller, a supply pipe, a discharge pipe, at least one sensor encoder which is assigned to the impeller, and a flow sensor which is provided on the measuring housing, responds to the sensor encoder and determines the amount of fluid flowing through the measuring housing, on the basis of the revolutions of the impeller, wherein the measuring housing is a pipe which comprises the supply pipe and the discharge pipe in one piece, wherein a nozzle-forming constriction is arranged eccentrically in the measuring housing between the supply pipe and the discharge pipe, in that the impeller is rotatably mounted in the discharge pipe downstream of the nozzle-forming constriction, and in that the outer diameter corresponding to the impeller is smaller than the nominal inner diameter of the discharge pipe, wherein the impeller has in the plan view in the axial pipe direction an outer face in each rotational position, such that the impeller fits into the free space provided by the inner pipe, and wherein the impeller has two side walls, on each of which a bearing element is provided axially in the center, said bearing element being assigned to a rotary bearing which is assigned to the discharge pipe.