IP Library Granted Patent US 12,590,857
Granted Patent B2
US 12,590,857 · App. 18/257,071 · Granted Mar 31, 2026

Coplanar differential pressure transducer

Inventors: Thomas Uehlin (Schopfheim, DE); Michael Hügel (Offenburg, DE); Florian Gutmann (Münstertal, DE)
Assignee: Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG
G01L13/026G01L19/0046
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Patent No.
US 12,590,857
App. No.
18/257,071
Granted
Mar 31, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A coplanar differential pressure transducer includes a measuring unit with two separating diaphragms facing the process and a transducer chamber, wherein the measuring unit is configured as a process connection for a hardware interface, wherein, in an end face of a base body of the process connection facing the process, is a disk-shaped recess downstream of each separating diaphragm, each disk-shaped recess having different radii, which intersect in an ellipsoidal structure, wherein two insert disks corresponding to each ellipsoidal disk-shaped recess are mountable in the ellipsoidal disk-shaped recesses and are configured such that the process connection can be adapted to the hardware interface of a customer connection.

Claims (14)

1 . A coplanar differential pressure transducer comprising a measuring unit including two separating diaphragms facing the process to be measured and a transducer chamber,

wherein two pressures are applied to the separating diaphragms, the pressures being transmitted hydraulically via a corresponding capillary system to a pressure-sensitive measuring element, which is disposed in the transducer chamber,

wherein, in its end region facing the process, the measuring unit is configured as a process connection for a hardware interface of a customer connection, wherein, in an end face of a base body of the process connection facing the process, a disk-shaped recess is adapted downstream of each of the two separating diaphragms,

wherein each of the two disk-shaped recesses is in the form of two circles, having different radii, which intersect in an ellipsoidal structure,

wherein two insert disks, which correspond to the ellipsoidal disk-shaped recesses, each including an opening, are configured to be mounted in the ellipsoidal disk-shaped recesses and are configured such that the process connection can be adapted to the hardware interface of the customer connection.

2 . The pressure transducer of claim 1 , wherein at least two pairs of different insert disks are included, which insert disks are configured such that the process connection is mountable on at least two different industry standard hardware interfaces of corresponding customer connections.

3 . The pressure transducer of claim 1 , wherein the ellipsoidal disk-shaped recesses and the corresponding insert disks are sized such that circumferential weld seams adapted for mounting the insert disks lie in the ellipsoidal disk-shaped recesses outside the separating diaphragms.

4 . The pressure transducer of claim 1 , wherein the two ellipsoidal disk-shaped recesses are arranged fully symmetrically with respect to each other.

5 . The pressure transducer of claim 1 , wherein the two ellipsoidal disk-shaped recesses are arranged such that they are adjacent each other with the two larger radii, while they are aligned with the two smaller radii with two opposite outer edges of the process connection.

6 . The pressure transducer of claim 1 , wherein, in the case of two insert disks that correspond to a first hardware interface, the opening is circular and is, in each case, located in a region of the larger radius.

7 . The pressure transducer of claim 6 , wherein the first hardware interface is an industry-standard 3051 interface.

8 . The pressure transducer of claim 6 , wherein a circumferential annular groove is disposed around each of the two circular openings.

9 . The pressure transducer of claim 1 , wherein, in the case of two insert disks that correspond to the first hardware interface, the circular opening is, in each case, located in a region of the smaller radius.

10 . The pressure transducer of claim 9 , wherein a second hardware interface is an industry-standard IEC interface.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 28, 2023
From: UEHLIN, THOMAS; HÜGEL, MICHAEL; GUTMANN, FLORIAN
To: ENDRESS+HAUSER SE+CO. KG
Reel/Frame 064724/0622 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2020 133 349.8 · Dec 14, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240044733A1 · Feb 8, 2024
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