Gas tight pressure sensor sealed with flexible metallic adaptor and having ceramic sensor element

US5665921A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Endress+Hauser Inc. · DE

Inventors

• Peter Gerst · Weil am Rhein, DE
• Karlheinz Banholzer · Eschborn, DE
• Winfried Maier · Maulburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 4, 1996
• Grant date: Sep 9, 1997
• Expiry date: Mar 4, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01L19/147
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Provision is made for a pressure sensor with a ceramic sensor element (1) which is introduced in a gas-tight manner, having a metallic housing (2) and having a metallic adapter (3) which is arranged between the sensor element (1) and housing (2) and which is connected in a gas-tight manner both to the housing (2) and to the sensor element (1).