Optical pressure sensor

Details Optical pressure sensor Optical pressure sensor

1985-02-11

1986-09-23

Woodiel, Donald O.

Measuring and testing

Fluid pressure gauge

Photoelectric

250231P, 250225, G01L 900

Patent

active

046128107

ABSTRACT:
An optical pressure sensor (1) is used for determining pressures and differential pressures of explosive liquids and gases and comprises a translucent body (2), having pressure measurement chambers (5, 7) formed as continuous holes. Sealing plates (3, 4), seal the pressure measurement chambers from the outside environment. The liquid or gaseous medium, introduced through inlet openings (9, 11) into the pressure measurement chambers and subjected to pressure, produces internal stresses in the body (2) so that the condition of polarization of polarized light (17), by which the body is irradiated, varies with the pressure in the pressure measurement chambers. An analyzer (18) filters from the light having a pressure-dependent condition of polarization linearly polarized light, whose intensity varies with the pressure of the medium to be determined. The pressure sensor is constructed in a simple manner and reacts with a high degree of sensitivity and accuracy to pressures and differential pressures. By adjustment of the diameter of the pressure measurement chambers and their relative distance, the sensitivity of the pressure sensor can be varied within wide limits.

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