Seal seat for an electrochemical sensor element

• US 5,739,441 A
• Filed: 10/17/1996
• Issued: 04/14/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Weyl, Helmut, Friese, Karl-Hermann, Fries, Romuald
• Primary Examiner(s): Chilcot, Richard
• Assistant Examiner(s): AMROZOWICZ, PAUL DOUGLAS
• Application Number:
  US08/727,677
• Time in Patent Office: 544 Days
• Field of Search: 73/866.5, 73/864.91, 204/428, 204/429, 204/424, 204/425, 204/426, 204/427
• US Class Current: 73/866.5
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/407 for investigating or analysing gases G01N27/411 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/4078 Means for sealing the sensor element in a housing

Abstract

An arrangement of a sensor element of an electrochemical measuring sensor in a metallic housing is proposed, wherein the sensor element (13) in the form of a tube closed at one end rests with a metallic sealing ring (18) on a seal seat (16) implemented on the housing. The seal seat (16) is designed as a raised circular ring surface having a radius (r), with the sealing ring (18) orienting itself tangentially with respect to the radius (r).

Claims

1. An arrangement of a sensor element of an electrochemical measuring sensor in a metallic housing, wherein:

the sensor element, in the form of tube closed at one end, has a conical sealing surface which rests with a metallic sealing ring on a seal seat implemented on the housing, the seal seat has a raised circular ring surface having a radius (r) of 0.5 to 1.5 mm, and the sealing ring adapts itself on the circular ring surface tangentially and automatically aligned with the conical sealing surface of the sensor element.

2. An arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the radius (r) is 1 mm.

3. An arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the sealing ring rests approximately with the center of its circular ring surface on the raised circular ring surface of the seal seat in a line-shaped manner.

4. An arrangement according to claim 3, wherein the sealing ring rests approximately in the center of the raised circular ring surface formed by the radius (r).

5. An arrangement according to claim 1, wherein in a direction toward the closed end of the sensor element, a free surface for the sealing ring adjoins the radius so that the sealing ring can orient itself tangentially relative to the radius (r).

6. An arrangement according to claim 5, wherein the free surface extends in a cone-shaped manner with an angle α

of preferably 45°

from the circular ring surface.