Patent ID: 8327719

Claim:
A measuring transducer of the 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, with an inlet-side, first housing end formed by means of an inlet-side, first flow divider, and with an outlet-side, second housing end formed by means of an outlet-side, second flow divider, said first flow divider including exactly four, mutually spaced, flow openings, which are so arranged that imaginary areal centers of gravity associated with the cross sectional areas of said flow openings of said first flow divider form the vertices of an imaginary square, said cross sectional areas lying in a shared, imaginary, cutting plane of said first flow divider, and said second flow divider including exactly four, mutually spaced, flow openings, which are so arranged that imaginary areal centers of gravity associated with the cross sectional areas of said flow openings of said second flow divider form the vertices of an imaginary square, said cross sectional areas lying in a shared, imaginary, cutting plane of said second flow divider; four, straight, measuring tubes connected to said first and second flow dividers for guiding flowing medium along flow paths connected in parallel, said measuring tubes including a first measuring tube, which opens with an inlet-side, first measuring tube end into said first flow opening of said first flow divider and with an outlet-side, second measuring tube end into said first flow opening of said second flow divider, said measuring tubes including a second measuring tube, which opens with said inlet-side, first measuring tube end into said second flow opening of said first flow divider and with an outlet-side, second measuring tube end into said second flow opening of said second flow divider, said measuring tubes including a third measuring tube, which opens with said inlet-side, first measuring tube end into said third flow opening of said first flow divider and with an outlet-side, second measuring tube end into said third flow opening of said second flow divider; and said measuring tubes including a fourth measuring tube, which opens with said inlet-side, first measuring tube end into said fourth flow opening of said first flow divider and with an outlet-side, second measuring tube end into said fourth flow opening of said second flow divider; and an electromechanical exciter mechanism for producing and/or maintaining mechanical oscillations of said four measuring tubes, said exciter mechanism including a first oscillation exciter and said exciter mechanism being adapted to excite the first and second measuring tubes to execute opposite phase bending oscillations in a shared imaginary first plane of oscillation and to excite the third and fourth measuring tubes to execute opposite phase bending oscillations in a shared imaginary, second plane of oscillation.