Measuring and testing – Fluid pressure gauge – Combined
Patent
1998-05-15
1999-11-02
Oen, William
Measuring and testing
Fluid pressure gauge
Combined
G01L 700
Patent
active
059748931
ABSTRACT:
A combined fluid pressure and temperature sensor device 10 has a variable capacitor (14) formed of a rigid substrate (14a) and flexible diaphragm (14b) attached thereto in sealed, spaced apart relation by an annular glass seal (34). The capacitor is received in a fluid passage chamber (12e) of a housing (12) having a fluid port (12b) for coupling to a fluid pressure source to be monitored. A connector (20) mounting transducer terminal pins is received in an open end of the housing with an electric circuit chamber (20d) formed between the connector and the variable capacitor which receives signal conditioning circuitry (26). A temperature responsive thermistor (32) is disposed, in one embodiment, on the exposed face of the diaphragm and is provided with electrical traces (32a, 32b) which go through apertures 14k, 14j) in the diaphragm into electrical contact with connection pads on the substrate within a glass enclosed window (34k, 34j). Traces (32e, 32f) extend from the connection pads through the glass seal to additional glass enclosed windows (34g, 34h) for connection with respective pins (30d, 30e) extending through the substrate to form a hermetic seal between the thermistor (32) and the signal conditioning circuit chamber through the annular glass seal. Additional embodiments include a leaded thermistor (42) positioned in the fluid pressure port (40), a leaded thermistor in a protective sleeve adapted to project into a fluid body (50), a leaded thermistor in which the leads are bent to place the thermistor adjacent to the diaphragm (60), a thermistor mounted on a heat conductive probe with a thermistor proximate to the diaphragm and with the probe extending therebeyond (70) a thermistor received on the substrate through an aperture in the diaphragm in a closed glass window (80) and a thermistor combined with a monolithic variable capacitor (90).
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Balcarek Richard L.
St. Pierre Keith D.
Strott Douglas B.
Baumann Russell E.
Donaldson Richard L.
Oen William
Texas Instruments Incorporated
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