Abstract:
A pressure sensor includes a pair of base films, a pair of electrodes, a layer of pressure-sensitive resistor, a spacer, and a projection. The electrodes are located between the base films. The layer of pressure-sensitive resistor is located between the base films to be distant from one of the electrodes by a predetermined gap. The spacer is located outside the layer of pressure-sensitive resistor between the base films and used for forming the gap. The projection is located on an outer surface of one of the base films in order to decrease the lowest pressure that can be detected by the pressure sensor. The contact state between the layer of pressure-sensitive resistor and one of the electrodes varies to vary the resistance between the electrodes when a pressure acts on the projection.
Abstract:
Compensation techniques for high temperature fiber-optic pressure sensors are aimed at correcting for the sensor sensitivity and offset dependence on temperature. By using materials of different thermal expansion coefficients for the sensor diaphragm, housing, ferrule and fiber-bonding compound and by optimizing the length of such parts, the relative distance of the fiber tip with respect to the sensing diaphragm changes in a manner that reduces sensor sensitivity and/or offset dependence on temperature. In the first embodiment, the distance change results from controlled fiber movement within the ferrule and is used to reduce the temperature sensitivity of dynamic sensors. In the second embodiment, an optimum selection of the diaphragm, housing, ferrule and bonding compound materials yields a stable fiber position within the ferrule but, instead, a well defined ferrule movement with respect to the diaphragm in response to temperature changes. The latter technique is used to reduce the offset error of static sensors or the sensitivity error of dynamic sensors.
Abstract:
A micromechanical component, in particular a pressure sensor, including a substrate that has a membrane region, a surrounding region of the membrane region, at least one measuring resistance provided in the membrane region and modifiable by deformation of the membrane region, and a corresponding evaluation circuit provided in the surrounding region. An interference effect on the measuring resistance is producible by way of a deformation of parts, in particular conductor paths, of the evaluation circuit relative to the substrate. The invention also creates a corresponding equalization method on a test chip or as an individual final equalization.
Abstract:
A relative pressure measuring instrument has a reference pressure feed that offers a high measure of safety and is easy to produce. Included is a relative pressure measuring cell having a pressure sensitive element, on whose process-facing side there is present during operation a pressure (p) to be measured, on whose process-averted side there is present during operation a reference pressure (pR) to which the pressure (p) to be measured is to be referred, a support on which the relative pressure measuring cell is arranged and which is enclosed in a housing, a process connection, that is connected to a process-facing end of the housing, a measuring instrument housing that is arranged at a process-averted end of the housing, and a reference pressure feed through which during operation the reference pressure (pR) is led to the process-averted side of the pressure sensitive element, and which leads completely out of the relative pressure measuring instrument laterally through the support and a single bore through the housing.
Abstract:
In a pressure sensor, a first electrode is formed on a base plate. A insulating laminate material coats the first electrode. A conductive rubber is attached on a click rubber. The conductive rubber is brought into a pressure contact with the first electrode coated with the insulating laminate material.
Abstract:
The invention proposes a device for measuring the pressure of blood in a pipe (44) of an extracorporeal blood circuit (42) includes a pressure measurement section (46) having a substantially rigid wall (64) including a hole (66) which is sealed by a closure element (68), the internal face (70) of which is in contact with the blood and the external face (72) of which is in contact with the ambient air, it being possible for the closure element (68) to be elastically deformed overall along a deformation axis (A—A) under the effect of the blood pressure. The closure element (68) is made in a single piece with the associated rigid wall (64) of the pressure measurement section (46).
Abstract:
A portable altimeter of the present invention is provided with a movement determining unit for determining whether or not the altimeter is at a standstill or moving by comparing an amount of change in altitude with a prescribed standstill threshold value and movement threshold value. When the standstill mode is set, the moving mode is then set only when the amount of change equals or exceeds the movement threshold value, and when the moving mode is set, the standstill mode is then set only when the amount of change falls below the standstill threshold value.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of measuring pressure in which an evacuated capsule (1) containing a resonant element (5) is placed in the fluid whose pressure is to be measured, a vibration characteristic of the element is measured, and the pressure is deduced from said characteristic. A resonant element is used which, during measurement, is to be found in a stress state that is close to buckling. For this purpose, it is possible to use heater means for heating the element and servo-controlled so as to keep the frequency of vibration thereof constant. The resonant element can be made of silicon. The invention is particularly applicable to oil wells.
Abstract:
A pressure transmitter with a hermetically sealed housing surrounding a cavity that is filled with a gas that is free of integrated circuit contaminants. A sensor circuit including an integrated circuit is placed in the cavity and a gas fill port on the housing is sealed. The sensor circuit is electrically adjustable from outside the pressure transmitter and the integrated circuit is protected from contaminated atmospheres outside the pressure transmitter.
Abstract:
The invention pertains to differential pressure transducers for gas turbine motors, for measuring variable pressure differences within a medium or between different media. The differential pressure transducer is constructed as a linear displacement sensor according to the linear variable displacement transducer (LVDT) principle, and has a ferromagnetic core that can be moved in a translatory manner, a spring element for the set position of the core given nominal differential pressure, a primary coil and two secondary coils arranged in succession axially over the length of the stroke range of the core, and a tubular housing having a delivery connection on both sides of the stroke area of the core.