Abstract:
Techniques are described herein that perform capacitance-based pressure sensing using pressure vessel(s). A pressure vessel is an object that has a cross section that defines a void. The void has a shape that is configured to change based on a change of pressure difference between a cavity pressure in a cavity in which at least a portion of the pressure vessel is suspended and a vessel pressure in the pressure vessel. The pressure vessel may be formed in the shape of an enclosed loop (e.g., along a path that is perpendicular to the cross section), resulting in a looped pressure vessel. For instance, an end of the pressure vessel may be connected to another end of the pressure vessel to form the enclosed loop.
Abstract:
A differential pressure sensor comprises a pair of bourdon tubes disposed in an arrangement wherein deflections of the two bourdon tubes resulting from fluid pressures connected thereto take place in two opposite directions and the deflective extremities of the two bourdon tubes are linked to one another by a linkage, which linkage is coupled to a transducer that converts the displacement of the linkage to an electrical parameter such as the ohmic resistance, capacitance, reluctance, or resonance frequency as a measure of differential values between two pressures respectively connected to the two bourdon tubes.
Abstract:
A pressure sensor includes a fill tube which is arranged to couple to a process pressure. A sensor is coupled to the fill tube and is configured to measure pressure of fluid in the fill tube as a function of a change of a physical property of the fill tube. Circuitry is provided to measure pressure using the pressure sensor, and to measure pressure based upon the change of the physical property of the fill tube.
Abstract:
A liquid level sensor comprises an elongated tubular member with two open ends contained in an elongated cylindrical container vessel in an arrangement wherein the two extremities of the elongated tubular member extending through the wall of the elongated cylindrical container vessel are respectively open to a liquid medium that rises through the elongated tubular member to the same level as the free surface thereof and to an ambient air above the free surface of the liquid medium; wherein the level of the liquid medium is determined from a natural frequency of flexural vibration of a section of the elongated tubular member partially filled with the liquid medium; which combination may further include another section of the elongated tubular member completely filled with the liquid medium, wherein the density of the liquid medium is determined from a natural frequency of flexural vibration of the section completely filled with the liquid medium and the level of the liquid medium is determined from a combination of the density of the liquid medium and the natural frequency of flexural vibration of the section of the elongated tubular member partially filled with the liquid medium.
Abstract:
A pressure transducer in the nature of a differential pressure transmitter including an instrument housing defining a chamber in which is mounted a sensing transducer one of several known types powered to provide a gauge signal that is to be supplied to instrumentation such as a controller or recorder, with the pressure sensing arrangement of the instrument being in the form of two oppositely coiled bourdon tubes mounted one on either side of the sensing transducer, with like ends of the tubes each mounting an output lever, which levers are respectively resiliently connected to the movable element of the transducer and in an oppositely acting manner, with the other ends of the respective tubes being separately connected to a mounting block arranged to provide for connection of the respective tubes to separate, externally located, sources of pressure fluids, and with one of the output levers being adjustable as to length for calibrating the instrument so that the action of the two tubes on the sensing transducer may be made equivalent when equal static pressures are sensed by the respective tubes, this compensating for inequalities in the tubes to insure a "zero" readout of the instrument when the tubes sense equal static pressures.
Abstract:
Techniques are described herein that perform capacitance-based pressure sensing using pressure vessel(s). A pressure vessel is an object that has a cross section that defines a void. The void has a shape that is configured to change based on a change of pressure difference between a cavity pressure in a cavity in which at least a portion of the pressure vessel is suspended and a vessel pressure in the pressure vessel. The pressure vessel may be formed in the shape of an enclosed loop (e.g., along a path that is perpendicular to the cross section), resulting in a looped pressure vessel. For instance, an end of the pressure vessel may be connected to another end of the pressure vessel to form the enclosed loop.
Abstract:
A pressure responsive apparatus having a flow-through element provides indications of measured pressure. The apparatus preferably includes a pressure gauge having a flow-through Bourdon tube responsive to an external pressure. The flow-through Bourdon tube drives a conventional pointer indicator and further supports a reflective target that is positioned in response to pressure applied to the Bourdon tube. Light is transmitted to the target by means of fiber optic cables from a remotely positioned oscillator. Light is reflected by the target and transmitted by fiber optic cables to processing circuitry that responds to reflected light signals as generated by the oscillator. To generate these light signals, light emitting diodes form a light source and the light signals are detected by means of phototransistors. A reference target is also provided along with a second light source/light detector pair. The processing circuitry responds to the outputs of the phototransistors and generates a controller output by use of a look-up table.