Measuring and testing – Fluid pressure gauge – Piston
Patent
1984-03-01
1985-06-18
Woodiel, Donald O.
Measuring and testing
Fluid pressure gauge
Piston
G01L 716
Patent
active
045234760
ABSTRACT:
A differential pressure gauge 10 utilizes a piston member 18 provided with a series of grooves 19 right around it, so that the piston member 18 itself forms the rack of a rack-and-pinion device (pinion 22) for converting linear displacement of the piston member into rotary displacement of the pinion. For sensitivity and accuracy, the seal between the piston member 18 and the passage 13 is a hard-surface-to-hard-surface engagement between substantial (total) hard surface areas at any one time of the passage 13 and the piston member 18, including regions of the surface area of the piston member 18 intermediate mutually adjacent end ones of the grooves 19. In this way, the gauge is insensitive to the base pressure, there being no soft seals to deform under pressure. A magnetic coupling is used through the wall of the housing, which can thus be made completely pressure-tight.
One embodiment indicates a reverse differential pressure by allowing the piston to travel beyond the normal end position upon overcoming the preload of a second spring.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3145570 (1964-08-01), Grandstaff
patent: 3347094 (1967-10-01), Schroeder et al.
patent: 4416211 (1983-11-01), Hoffman
Fluid Devices Limited
Woodiel Donald O.
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