Patent ID: 7395720

Claim:
An apparatus for securing a sensor to a pipeline, the pipeline defining an axis, comprising: a mounting-housing positionable on the pipeline; at least one screw unit, at least one spring; and at least one limiting unit, which limits the screwing-in of said at least one screw unit, wherein: said mounting-housing is embodied, and coordinated with the sensor, in such a manner that a force, which acts on said mounting-housing in the direction orthogonal to the axis of the pipeline, acts at least partly on the sensor in said direction orthogonal to the axis of the pipeline; an adjustable force can be exerted on said mounting-housing in said direction orthogonal to the axis of the pipeline via said at least one screw unit; said mounting-housing is coordinated with the sensor such that said mounting-housing lies at least partially on the end of the sensor facing away from the pipeline; said mounting-housing and said at least one screw unit are embodied, and coordinated with one another, in such a manner that a screwing-in of said at least one screw unit into said mounting-housing exerts a force onto said mounting-housing directed essentially in the direction orthogonal to the axis of the pipeline; said at least one screw unit exerts on said at least one spring a force directed essentially in the direction orthogonal to the axis of the pipeline or; and the force which can be exerted on said mounting-housing and on the sensor in the direction of the directional orthogonal to the axis of the pipeline via said at least one screw unit is predetermined via the embodiment of said at least one spring.