Patent ID: 7878073

Claim:
Method for registering at least one measured variable of a medium flowing in a process line, by means of a measuring system at least partially inserted into the course of the process line said measuring system including a flow conditioner connected to a supply segment of the process line, as well as a measuring transducer connected to the flow conditioner, said method comprising: allowing the medium to be measured to flow out of the supply segment into the flow conditioner; inducing at least one essentially stationary toroidal vortex within the medium flowing in an inlet region of the flow conditioner in a manner such that a principal axis of greatest inertia of the at least one toroidal vortex essentially coincides with the longitudinal axis of the flow conditioner, and/or with a longitudinal axis of the measuring tube; allowing the medium to be measured to flow out of the flow conditioner into a measuring tube of the connected measuring transducer; as well as producing at least one measurement signal, influenced by the measured variable to be registered, by application of at least one sensor element reacting primarily to the measured variable and/or to changes in the measured variable.