Plug-In Module for a Liquid or Gas Sensor

• US 20090302856A1
• Filed: 09/20/2006
• Published: 12/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta Gesellschaft FUER Mess- und Regeltechnik mbH+Company KG
• Original Assignee: Endress + Hauser Conducta GmbH + Co. Kg
• Inventors: Babel, Wolfgang, Wittmer, Detlev
• Granted Patent: US 8,847,602 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 324/438
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/28 Electrolytic cell components
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/286 Power or signal connectors associated therewith

Abstract

A plug-in module for a liquid- or gas-sensor comprised of a sensor module (SM) and a sensor module head (SMH), which can be releasably connected together, and which, when connected, enable data and energy transfer via a galvanically decoupled transfer section, wherein the sensor module head (SMH) includes an energy supply unit for operating the sensor module head (SMH) and the sensor module (SM), as well as a data memory (MEM), in order to store sensor data received from the sensor module (SM).

Claims

1-4. -4. (canceled)

5. A plug-in module for a liquid- or gas-sensor, comprising:

a sensor module;

a sensor module head;

an energy supply unit; and

a data memory module and said sensor module head, being releasably connected together, and when connected, enables data and energy exchange via a galvanically decoupled transfer section, wherein;

said energy supply unit operates the sensor module head and said sensor module, as well as said data memory, in order to store sensor data received from said sensor module.

6. The plug-in module as claimed in claim 5, wherein:

said sensor module head includes a display unit, which serves for displaying stored sensor data.

7. The plug-in module as claimed in claim 5, wherein:

for further processing or evaluation of sensor data, said sensor module head is detachable from said sensor module and is connectable, by means of an interface, to a suitable read-out device for read-out of sensor data.

8. The module as claimed in claim 7, wherein:

the sensor data comprise condition data of said sensor module and/or measurement data, whose course was logged over an extended period of time.