Abstract:
There is disclosed herein an apparatus for converting mechanical quantities, such as mechanical force, into an electrical signal by a mechanism which minimizes explosion possibilities. The mechanism includes a transmission rod which passes through a circular passageway in a wall that separates the mechanical and electrical sections of the apparatus, the transmission rod being tiltable within the passageway to transmit mechanical movement to the electrical section of the apparatus.
Abstract:
An electrical-pneumatic system has a controller which has an input terminal for a reference variable signal, an input terminal for a regulating variable or feedback signal and an output terminal for a manipulated variable signal, which preferably is a pulse-width modulated signal. The controller will actuate a drive unit of an electrical-pneumatic pre-control unit, which has a 3/2 directional control valve that responds to the pulse-width modulated signal from the controller. The output of the 3/2 directional control valve is smoothed by being passed through a throttle and into a volume, and a pneumatic booster is connected downstream from the volume. The output of the pneumatic booster is sensed and provides the feedback signal.
Abstract:
A pneumatic drive mechanism for use with positioning apparatus or the like, having a drive housing, a drive element such as diaphragm disk, piston or the like, movably seated therein and rigidly connected to a drive rod or similar device. The drive element is responsive to compressed air on one side thereof and to forces from at least one spring operating in opposed action to the compressed air. The spring is arranged within the drive housing. The drive mechanism also has a signal processing device such as a position controller, position encoder, limit signal generator, solenoid valve or i/p converter or similar devices. The signal processing device or devices are integrated within the drive housing in an accomodation space which is free of the spring or springs, of the drive rod and of the drive element.
Abstract:
A damping system, more specially, for measuring and automatic control systems takes the form of mass of damping liquid placed between two parts which may be moved in relation to each other and which are to be damped. By the selection of the damping liquid, as for example a silicone oil, and of the form and size of the space between the two moving parts and, furthermore, of the properties of the two parts touched by the liquid, it is possible to make certain that the liquid is kept in place by surface tension effects, that is to say because of its own surface tension and the surface tension properties of the lining faces touched by it.The damping unit may take the form of two, more specially frusto-conical plates, able to be moved in relation to each other and of which one may undergo adjustment by using a threaded rod and a lock nut. Furthermore, as a further development of the invention, the damping liquid may be kept in an open-sided but otherwise pot-like space between an U-shaped female part and a male part, able to be moved vibratingly within it.As a still further development, the female part has a through-hole and the male part is placed within it. A larger or smaller amount of the damping liquid may then be forced by a piston into the space between the male and female parts.
Abstract:
Fluidic switch with a switch housing having two housing halves and two actuating chambers separated by an actuating membrane having at its circumferential margin a sealing bolster substantially parallel to the plane of separation of the housing halves; a switch valve chamber; and an actuating lever extending from the actuating membrane into the switch valve chamber, fulcrumed about an axis parallel to the plane of separation on a resilient lead-through portion which is formed by a section of the sealing bolster.