Pressure measuring device

• US 10,330,547 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2013
• Issued: 06/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG (Endress+Hauser AG)
• Original Assignee: Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG (Endress+Hauser AG)
• Inventors: Drewes, Ulfert, Ponath, Nils, Hugel, Michael, Uehlin, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhong, Xin Y
• Application Number:
  US14/395,848
• Publication Number:
  US 20150122040A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,289 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 9/0072 using variations in capacitance

Abstract

A pressure measuring device, comprising: a pressure measuring cell having a measuring membrane, at least one platform and a pressure chamber formed therebetween. An electrical transducer for transducing a deflection of the measuring membrane into a pressure dependent, primary signal; a cylindrical housing having a measuring cell chamber, in which the pressure measuring cell is arranged, and an end face pressure receipt opening in communication with the pressure duct; and an electronic circuit in the housing for operating the electrical transducer, and for processing the primary signal, and for outputting a measurement signal. The cylinder axis of the pressure measuring cell forms with the cylinder axis of the housing an angle, which amounts to not less than 80°, and which is especially preferably a right angle.

Claims

1. A pressure measuring device, comprising:

an essentially cylindrical pressure measuring cell, which has at least one circular disk shaped measuring membrane, at least one platform;

a pressure duct;

a first pressure chamber formed between said measuring membrane and said platform, which is contactable with a pressure via said pressure duct, which extends through said platform;

a second pressure chamber;

said pressure measuring cell has an electrical transducer for transducing a pressure dependent deflection of said measuring membrane into at least one pressure dependent, electrical, primary signal;

a first electronic circuit;

a second electronic circuit; and

an essentially cylindrical housing, said housing having in its interior a measuring cell chamber, and said housing having an outer diameter, wherein;

said pressure measuring cell is arranged in said measuring cell chamber, said pressure measuring cell having an outer diameter;

said housing has on an end face a pressure receipt opening,

said pressure duct of said pressure measuring cell communicates with said pressure receipt opening and via said opening is loadable with a media pressure present at said pressure receipt opening, and

said first electronic circuit for operating electrical transducer of said pressure measuring cell, and for processing the electrical, primary signal, and for outputting a measurement signal dependent on the primary signal, and said first electronic circuit is arranged in said housing and electrically connected with the transducer via at least one connecting line; and

the cylinder axis of said pressure measuring cell forms with the cylinder axis of said housing a right angle;

said outer diameter of said pressure measuring cell amounts to not less than 80% of said outer diameter of said housing in an axial section of said measuring cell chamber, where the measuring cell is located;

said second pressure chamber is contactable with atmospheric pressure via a second pressure duct, which extends through a second platform;

the pressure measuring device further comprises, a single isolating diaphragm, which is connected at the end of said housing along a peripheral edge pressure-tightly with said housing to form a pressure receiving chamber between said housing and said isolating diaphragm, wherein;

said pressure receipt opening opens into said pressure receiving chamber, and a hydraulic path, which extends from said pressure receiving chamber through said pressure receipt opening and said pressure duct to said first pressure chamber of said pressure measuring cell, in order to transfer the pressure present on said isolating diaphragm into said first pressure chamber;

the second electronic circuit, is connected to said first electronic circuit, in order to receive and to process the measurement signal, and which is arranged in said housing at the side of said measuring cell facing away from said pressure receipt opening;

said second electronic circuit issues at a signal output an output signal dependent on the measurement signal, and the signal output is connected to a signal path, wherein said housing has a signal path opening, through which the signal path extends; and

the signal path opening is arranged at the end of said housing facing away from said pressure receipt opening.

2. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said transducer is a capacitive transducer has at least a first electrode, which is arranged on said measuring membrane, and at least a second electrode, which is arranged on said first platform; and

the capacitance between said first electrode and said second electrode is pressure dependent.

3. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said transducer is contacted via electrical leads through said first platform;

the electrical leads leave said first platform at an end face of said first platform facing away from said measuring membrane.

4. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 3, wherein:

said pressure duct leaves said platform at the end face of said first platform facing away from said measuring membrane.

5. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 1, furthermore comprising:

a support body, wherein;

said support body is arranged in said housing and connected with said housing;

said pressure measuring cell is held by said support body and is connected with it; and

there extends through said support body a connecting duct, which is connected pressure-tightly to said pressure input opening and to said pressure duct.

6. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a connecting duct; and

a support body, wherein;

said connecting duct includes a first section and a second section, which are connected with one another and comprise bores communicating with one another in said support body, and which extend perpendicularly to one another.

7. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a support body; and

a connecting duct, wherein;

said support body comprises at least a first spigot connection piece, through which said connecting duct extends;

said connection piece is arranged, and pressure bearingly joined, in a bore in said first platform, through which said pressure duct extends.

8. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the outer diameter of said pressure measuring cell amounts to not less than 90% of the outer diameter of said housing in said axial section of said measuring cell chamber.

9. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

an isolating diaphragm, which is connected at the end of said housing along a peripheral edge pressure-tightly with said housing to form a pressure receiving chamber between said housing and said isolating diaphragm, wherein;

said pressure receipt opening opens into said pressure receiving chamber; and

a hydraulic path, which extends from said pressure receiving chamber through said pressure receipt opening and said pressure duct to said pressure chamber of said pressure measuring cell, in order to transfer the pressure present on said isolating diaphragm into said pressure chamber.

10. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said pressure measuring cell further includes a second platform;

said measuring membrane is arranged between said first platform and said second platform;

a second pressure chamber is formed between said measuring membrane and said second platform; and

said second pressure chamber is evacuated or is contactable with atmospheric pressure via a second pressure duct, which extends through said second platform.

11. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the outer diameter of said pressure measuring cell amounts to not less than 90% of the outer diameter of said housing in the axial section of said measuring cell chamber.