Pressure reading structure for pressure gauge

• US 6,763,725 B1
• Filed: 05/14/2003
• Issued: 07/20/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tien-Tsai Huang
• Original Assignee: Tien-Tsai Huang
• Inventors: Huang, Tien-Tsai
• Primary Examiner(s): Lefkowitz, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jenkins, Jermaine
• Application Number:
  US10/436,987
• Time in Patent Office: 433 Days
• Field of Search: 737/00--56
• US Class Current: 73/756
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 19/08 Means for indicating or recording, e.g. for remote indication
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 19/16 Dials; Mounting of dials
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 7/04 in the form of flexible, deformable tubes, e.g. Bourdon gauges

Abstract

A pressure reading structure used in a pressure gauge is disclosed to include an index dial shaped like a circular cap and mounted in a hollow transparent cylindrical housing, and an angled pointer suspended over an angled top-view index dial portion and a side-view index dial portion of the index dial for enabling the user to view the readings of the pressure gauge from the top side as well as the peripheral side of the pressure gauge so as to enhance the convenience of using the gauge.

Claims

1. A pressure reading structure used in a pressure gauge comprising a hollow cylindrical housing and a pressure-measuring element mounted inside said housing, the pressure reading structure comprising an index dial mounted inside said housing and a pointer suspended inside said housing and coupled to said pressure-measuring element and adapted to be turned by said pressure-measuring element relative to said index dial upon filling of a flow of gas into said pressure-measuring element, wherein:

said housing is transparent and has a top-view zone and an annular side-view zone extended around the periphery of said top-view zone;

said index dial is shaped like a circular cap having a top-view index dial portion corresponding to said top-view zone of said housing and a side-view index dial portion corresponding to said side-view zone of said housing;

said pointer is an angled pointer having a top-view pointer portion suspended between said top-view zone of said housing and said top-view index dial portion of said index dial and a side-view pointer portion suspended between said side-view zone of said housing and said side-view index dial portion of said index dial.

2. The pressure reading structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pressure-measuring element of said pressure gauge comprises an intake pipe extended out of said housing and a pressure-measuring copper element, said pressure-measuring copper element being a hollow flat coil member having a substantially annular inner section connected to said intake pipe and a substantially annular outer section connected to said pointer.

3. The pressure reading structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pressure-measuring element comprises an intake pipe extended out of said housing, a gear set, a hair spring coaxially installed with said gear set, and a pressure-measuring copper element, said pressure-measuring copper element being at one end connected to said intake pipe and at an opposite end coupled to said gear set;

said pointer being secured to an output shaft of said gear set.

4. The pressure reading structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said top-view pointer is integrally formed perpendicular to said side-view pointer.

5. The pressure reading structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said top-view pointer is integrally formed oblique to said side-view pointer.