Draining Patents (Class 191/26)
  • Patent number: 5546804
    Abstract: A transmitter transmitting a sensed process variable over a conductor includes a cylindrical housing having a terminal compartment and an electronics compartment separated by a bulkhead. The terminal compartment used for conductor connection is subject to moisture accumulation. An access channel fully intersects an internal surface of terminal compartment such that the access channel drains moisture from the terminal compartment across a range of mounting orientations. The transmitter includes a circuit in the electronics compartment for compensating a process variable and providing the compensated process variable via a feedthrough circuit assembly in the bulkhead, which in one embodiment, includes an encapsulated radio frequency interference filter, to terminals in the terminal compartment for coupling to a conductor that is connected to an external controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: Rosemount Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Johnson, William R. Kirkpatrick