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Micro displacement force transducer

US4870536A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 14, 1988
Grant dateSep 26, 1989
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Expiry dateSep 14, 2008

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01L9/003
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A sensor system utilizing a Bourdon tube to generate a force as a function of pressure to deflect a diaphragm in a capacitor device where the diaphragm varies capacitance values of the capacitor device as a function of the applied force. The capacitor device is an essentially integral circularly shaped construction of quartz material in which the diaphragm is attached to a tubular quartz member. A metal member having a similar coefficient of temperature expansion to the coefficient of the quartz is used to couple the diaphragm to the Bourdon tube.

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