Pressure measuring device

• US 6,615,665 B1
• Filed: 05/31/2000
• Issued: 09/09/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Endress+Hauser GmbH+Co (ENDRESS)
• Original Assignee: Endress+Hauser GmbH+Co (ENDRESS)
• Inventors: Uehlin, Thomas, Hegner, Frank, Flögel, Karl, Banholzer, Karlheinz
• Primary Examiner(s): Oen, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): FERGUSON SAMRETH, MARISSA LIANA
• Application Number:
  US09/583,967
• Time in Patent Office: 1,196 Days
• Field of Search: 737/15, 737/14, 737/24, 737/25, 737/26, 737/06, 737/18, 737/01, 361/283--28
• US Class Current: 73/715
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 13/025 using diaphragms
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 19/0627 Protection against aggressive medium in general
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 9/0073 using a semiconductive diaphragm
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 9/0075 using a ceramic diaphragm, e.g. alumina, fused quartz, glass

Abstract

A pressure measuring device with a housing (21, 53) and a pressure measuring cell is provided, the pressure measuring cell being protected from interference, in particular independently of its installation position in the housing (21, 53), and comprising: a housing (21, 53), a pressure measuring cell, which has at least one pressure-sensitive measuring diaphragm (3, 35, 37), on the outer side of which a pressure (P, P₁, P₂) acts during operation, which has a transducer for converting a pressure-dependent deflection of the measuring diaphragm (3, 35, 37) into an electrical measured variable and which has free outer circumferential surfaces, which are provided with an electrically conductive coating (31, 61), and an electronic circuit (13, 49) for converting the electrical measured variable into a measuring signal.

Claims

1. A pressure measuring device which comprises:

a housing (21, 53),

a pressure measuring cell located in said housing,

wherein said pressure measuring cell has a base body, said base body comprising at least one surface for receiving a diaphragm and free circumferential surfaces, said at least one surface for receiving a diaphragm and said free circumferential surfaces defining together the geometrical boundaries of said base body, said pressure measuring cell further comprising at least one pressure-sensitive measuring diaphragm (3, 35, 37) attached to said at least one diaphragm receiving surface,

wherein said diaphragm is exposed to a pressure (P, P₁, P₂) during operation,

said pressure measuring cell comprising a. transducer for converting a pressure-dependent deflection of the measuring diaphragm (3, 35, 37) into an electrical measured variable; and

an electronic circuit (13, 49) for converting the electrical measured variable into a measuring signal;

characterized in that an electrically conductive coating is applied to the free circumferential surfaces, wherein said coating serves as an electromagnetic shielding for the pressure measuring cell.

2. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 1, in which the electrically conductive coating (31, 61) is a sputtered-on metallic coating.

3. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 1, in which the electrically conductive coating (31, 61) is a metallic lacquer, in particular a conductive carbon lacquer or a conductive silver lacquer.

4. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 1, in which the electrically conductive coating (31, 61) is a layer in a laminated foil.

5. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 1, in which

the pressure measuring cell is a capacitive pressure measuring cell with an electrode (9) arranged on the measuring diaphragm (3) and

together with the electrode (9), the coating (31) forms a closed Faraday cage.

6. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 5, in which the electrode (9) is connected by means of the coating (31) to a reference potential (U).

7. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 1, in which

the pressure measuring cell is a capacitive differential pressure measuring cell,

which has two measuring diaphragms (35, 37) with electrodes (41, 43) arranged on them, and

together with the electrodes (41, 43), the coating (61) forms a closed Faraday cage.

8. The pressure measuring device as claimed in claim 7, in which the electrodes (41, 43) are connected by means of the coating (61) to a reference potential (U).