Differential pressure measuring apparatus
First Claim
1. Differential pressure measuring apparatus comprising a single chamber differential pressure sensor filled with a fluid and having two measuring capacitors whose capacitances vary in opposite senses in response to the differential pressure to be measured and in the same sense in response to the temperature, said capacitances being transformed by means of associated capacitance measuring circuits into measurement signals which are supplied to a calculation circuit for calculating the temperature and the differential pressure, further comprising temperature measuring means for directly measuring the temperature of the single chamber differential pressure sensor and comparison means for comparing the temperature calculated from the capacitances of the measuring capacitors with the measured temperature and for delivering a signal indicating the occurrence of a failure when the difference between the compared temperatures exceeds a predetermined threshold.
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Abstract
The differential pressure measuring apparatus comprises a single chamber differential pressure sensor filled with a fluid and having two measuring capacitors whose capacitances vary in opposite senses in response to the differential pressure to be measured and in the same sense in response to the temperature said capacitances being transformed by means of associated capacitance measuring circuits into measurement signals which are supplied to a calculation circuit for calculating the temperature and the differential pressure. A temperature measuring means which comprises a temperature sensor mounted on the differential pressure sensor and a temperature measuring circuit connected to the temperature sensor measures directly the temperature of the single chamber differential pressure sensor. A comparison means compares the temperature calculated from the capacitances of the measuring capacitors with the measured temperature and delivers a signal indicating the occurrence of a failure when the difference between the compared temperatures exceeds a predetermined threshold. By this self-monitoring, perturbations and other causes of failure which would result in an erroneous measurement can be recognized and indicated with great safety.
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- 1. Differential pressure measuring apparatus comprising a single chamber differential pressure sensor filled with a fluid and having two measuring capacitors whose capacitances vary in opposite senses in response to the differential pressure to be measured and in the same sense in response to the temperature, said capacitances being transformed by means of associated capacitance measuring circuits into measurement signals which are supplied to a calculation circuit for calculating the temperature and the differential pressure, further comprising temperature measuring means for directly measuring the temperature of the single chamber differential pressure sensor and comparison means for comparing the temperature calculated from the capacitances of the measuring capacitors with the measured temperature and for delivering a signal indicating the occurrence of a failure when the difference between the compared temperatures exceeds a predetermined threshold.
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Current AssigneeEndress U Hauser GmbH U Company
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Original AssigneeEndress U Hauser GmbH U Company
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InventorsSpringhart, Wulf, Gerst, Peter
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Primary Examiner(s)WOODIEL, DONALD
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Application NumberUS07/719,674Time in Patent Office274 DaysField of Search73/708, 73/718, 73/724, 73/706, 361/283, 374/143US Class Current73/708CPC Class CodesG01L 9/0072 using variations in capacit...G01L 9/125 with temperature compensati...
