Patent ID: 8613227

Claim:
A measuring transducer of a vibration-type for registering at least one physical, measured variable of a flowable medium guided in a pipeline and/or for producing Coriolis forces serving for registering a mass flow rate of a flowable medium guided in a pipeline, said measuring transducer comprising: a transducer housing, of which an inlet-side, first housing end is formed by means of an inlet-side, first flow divider including four, mutually spaced, flow openings, and an outlet-side, second housing end formed by means of an outlet-side, second flow divider including four, mutually spaced, flow openings; a tube arrangement including four curved measuring tubes connected to said first and second flow dividers, of which a first measuring tube of said four curved measuring tubes opens with an inlet-side, first measuring tube end into a first flow opening of said first flow divider and with an outlet-side, second measuring tube end into a first flow opening of said second flow divider, a second measuring tube of said four curved measuring tubes, which is at least sectionally parallel to said first measuring tube, opens with an inlet-side, first measuring tube end into a second flow opening of said first flow divider and with an outlet-side, second measuring tube end into a second flow opening of said second flow divider, a third measuring tube of said four curved measuring tubes opens with an inlet-side, first measuring tube end into a third flow opening of said first flow divider and with an outlet-side, second measuring tube end into a third flow opening of said second flow divider, and a fourth measuring tube of said four curved measuring tubes, which is at least sectionally parallel to the third measuring tube, opens with an inlet-side, first measuring tube end into a fourth flow opening of said first flow divider and with an outlet-side, second measuring tube end into a fourth flow opening of said second flow divider; and an electromechanical exciter mechanism for producing and/or maintaining mechanical oscillations of said four curved measuring tubes; wherein said four curved measuring tubes are so embodied and arranged in the measuring transducer, that: said tube arrangement defines a first imaginary longitudinal-section plane with respect to which said tube arrangement is mirror symmetric, said first imaginary longitudinal-section plane lying between said first measuring tube and said third measuring tube as well as between said second measuring tube and said fourth measuring tube; and said tube arrangement defines perpendicular to its imaginary first longitudinal-section plane a second imaginary longitudinal-section plane, with respect to which said tube arrangement likewise is mirror symmetric, said second imaginary longitudinal-section plane extending between said first measuring tube and said second measuring tube as well as between said third measuring tube and said fourth measuring tube.