Abstract: A resistive strain gauge pressure sensor including upper and lower housings coacting to define a pressure chamber within the housing. A board member is clamped between the housings and defines a diaphragm portion which extends across the pressure chamber to divide the pressure chamber into upper and lower chamber portions. All of the circuitry of the sensor is screen printed onto the lower planar face of the board member including the various resistor elements of the strain gauge assembly, the various elements of the conditioning circuit receiving the output of the strain gauge assembly, and the various further leads required to connect the circuitry elements to the terminals of the sensor. The sensor terminals are provided by a plurality of connector pins extending downwardly through the board member for connection at their respective lower ends to the circuitry provided on the lower face of the board member.

Abstract: The nozzle diffuser has an inlet in fluid communication with the narrowed inlet of an open test chamber in a conventional wind tunnel. The nozzle diffuser has a passageway extending from its inlet to an outlet in communication with the open test section. The passageway has an internal cross-sectional area which increases from its inlet to its outlet and which may be defined by top and bottom isosceles trapezoid walls of a particular flare angle and by isosceles trapezoid side walls of a different flare angle. In addition, a collector having a decreasing internal cross-sectional area from inlet to outlet may be provided at the opposite end of the test chamber such that its outlet is in fluid communication with a diffuser located at this outlet.

Abstract: A semiconductor pressure-detecting apparatus includes a semiconductor chip having a diaphragm and a frame molded within a resin with the diaphragm exposed. A reference pressure chamber may be provided between the diaphragm and the frame. Since the diaphragm is exposed, a medium, the pressure of which is to be measured, easily contacts the diaphragm. Therefore, if the stem is connected to a case containing the medium, a high pressure can be measured.

Abstract: The invention device monitors the pressure of a measurement chamber subjected to the pressure prevailing in a vehicle tire. A pressure-sensitive device scans the tire pressure with a pressure measurement member in a measurement chamber. In case of a tire-pressure drop, the tire pressure is used to actuate an auxiliary actuator (3, 24, 26). The auxiliary actuator genrates the regulating distance (s) dependent on a tire pressure drop below a pressure value required for an actuation of the actuator (13). The regulating distance (s) is recognizable by a sensor. The invention device is suitable for providing a permanent signal even in case of an absence of pressure in the measurement chamber (21).

Abstract: A three-axis velocity probe system for determining three-axis positional velocities of small particles in fluidized bed systems and similar applications. This system has a sensor head containing four closely-spaced sensing electrodes of small wires that have flat ends to establish a two axis plane, e.g. a X-Y plane. Two of the sensing electrodes are positioned along one of the axes and the other two are along the second axis. These four sensing electrodes are surrounded by a guard electrode, and the outer surface is a ground electrode and support member for the sensing head. The electrodes are excited by, for example, sinusoidal voltage having a peak-to-peak voltage of up to 500 volts at a frequency of 2 MHz. Capacitive currents flowing between the four sensing electrodes and the ground electrode are influenced by the presence and position of a particle passing the sensing head.

Abstract: A pair of pressure sensing probe tubes are placed in the fan discharge of a turbofan engine, aft of the outlet guide vanes (OGVs) the tubes being circumferentially spaced by a fraction of the OGV pitch. A comparing means receives both pressures sensed by the double-barrelled probes and aerodynamically actuates to automatically select the higher of the two pressures. An accurate pressure indication representative of the mainstream pressure is therefore obtained despite the localized lower pressure turbulence area that may be caused by the presence of the upstream outlet guide vane(s).

Abstract: A command driving mechanism for command bars which are rotatable about the longitudinal axis of and transversely displaceable with respect to the horizontal reference line of a flight director indicator includes a command plate, the plane of which is parallel to the front face of the indicator. The perpendicular axis of the command plate is coaxial with the longitudinal axis of the indicator and rotatable thereon in accordance with roll commands. Command bar struts are pivotally supported at diametrically opposed peripheral portions of the command plate and connected through a wire bail which is driven by a helical cam in accordance with pitch commands.