FLUID EQUIPMENT

• US 20180136069A1
• Filed: 11/13/2017
• Published: 05/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Horiba STEC, Co., Ltd. (Horiba Limited)
• Original Assignee: Horiba STEC, Co., Ltd. (Horiba Limited)
• Inventors: Miyamoto, Hideaki, Inoue, Masaki, Nishikawa, Ichiro, Hamada, Masashi, Hataita, Takehisa, Kishida, Sotaro, Yada, Hidetaka
• Application Number:
  US15/811,342
• Publication Number:
  US 20180136069A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 19/0038 being part of the housing other details about the housing G01L19/14
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 19/0609 Pressure pulsation damping arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 19/145 with stress relieving means
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 19/146 using flexible element between the transducer and the support

Abstract

In order to reduce an excessive pressure applied to a pressure sensor due to thermal expansion of fluid or the like, fluid equipment includes: a body unit formed with an internal flow path through which liquid flows; a pressure sensor provided on the body unit for sensing the pressure in the internal flow path; and a fluctuation absorbing part provided on the body unit for absorbing pressure fluctuation of the fluid.

Claims

1. Fluid equipment comprising:

a body unit formed with an internal flow path through which liquid flows;

a pressure sensor provided on the body unit for sensing a pressure in the internal flow path; and

a fluctuation absorbing part provided on the body unit for absorbing pressure fluctuation of the fluid.

2. The fluid equipment according to claim 1, wherein the fluctuation absorbing part is adapted to absorb thermal expansion of the fluid.

3. The fluid equipment according to claim 1, wherein the pressure sensor is adapted to sense the pressure using a diaphragm that deforms in accordance with a change in pressure in the internal flow path.

4. The fluid equipment according to claim 1, wherein a fluid resistance element is provided in the internal flow path, wherein the pressure sensor includes an upstream side pressure sensor that is provided on an upstream side of the fluid resistance element and a downstream side pressure sensor that is provided in a downstream side of the fluid resistance element, and wherein the fluctuation absorbing part is provided in the upstream side of the upstream side pressure sensor or the fluid resistance element.

5. The fluid equipment according to claim 1, wherein the fluctuation absorbing part is attached to an outer surface of the body unit.

6. The fluid equipment according to claim 1, wherein the fluctuation absorbing part includes a diaphragm that deforms in accordance with the pressure fluctuation of the fluid.

7. The fluid equipment according to claim 6, wherein the diaphragm of the fluctuation absorbing part includes a wave shape portion having a ring shape in plan view and a waveform shape in cross-section.

8. The fluid equipment according to claim 6, wherein the fluctuation absorbing part includes a deformation restricting part that is provided in a swelled side caused by the deformation of the diaphragm, at a predetermined distance from the diaphragm.