Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a pressure sensor having a main body and a pressure-sensitive ceramic measurement membrane, wherein an outer edge of the measurement membrane is connected in a pressure-tight manner by an encircling joint to a surface of the main body facing the outer edge of the measurement membrane, wherein the joint includes a ternary active hard solder in eutectic composition: providing the main body, the measurement membrane and the active hard solder; positioning the active hard solder between the outer edge of the measurement membrane and the surface of the main body; heating the main body, the measurement membrane and the active hard solder to a joining temperature which essentially corresponds to a temperature of the eutectic point of the active hard solder.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a high-temperature-resistant, lead-free solder joint between a circuit board and a part, wherein a lead-free solder preform is used that has a composite material having a first composite component arranged substantially in layers and wherein the part is soldered with the solder preform in a hot-bar selective soldering process. Also disclosed is a high-temperature-resistant, lead-free solder joint and a field device of automation technology for determining and/or monitoring the process variable of a medium with a high-temperature-resistant, lead-free solder joint.

Abstract: A pressure measuring device includes a ceramic pressure sensor and a process connection, the pressure sensor including a measuring membrane. The pressure measuring device further includes a carrier made of titanium and having a free-standing tubular carrier region running parallel to the surface normal onto the measuring membrane and having an end region adjacent the process connection connected to the process connection and an end region opposite the process connection to which the pressure sensor is fastened by a jointing that connects an outer edge of a front face of the pressure sensor to the end region of the carrier opposite the process connection and carries the pressure sensor.

Abstract: A pressure measuring device includes a ceramic pressure sensor including a ceramic measuring membrane and a sensor mounting configured to secure the pressure sensor such that a membrane region of the measuring membrane surrounded by a membrane edge is contactable with a medium having a pressure to be measured. The sensor mounting includes a titanium or titanium alloy mounting element including an opening through which the membrane region is contactable with the medium. The membrane edge is connected directly with the mounting element by a diffusion weld produced by a diffusion welding method.

Abstract: A pressure measuring device includes a ceramic pressure sensor and a process connection, the pressure sensor including a measuring membrane. The pressure measuring device further includes a carrier made of titanium and having a free-standing tubular carrier region running parallel to the surface normal onto the measuring membrane and having an end region adjacent the process connection connected to the process connection and an end region opposite the process connection to which the pressure sensor is fastened by a jointing that connects an outer edge of a front face of the pressure sensor to the end region of the carrier opposite the process connection and carries the pressure sensor.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a high-temperature-resistant, lead-free solder joint between a circuit board and a part, wherein a lead-free solder preform is used that has a composite material having a first composite component arranged substantially in layers and wherein the part is soldered with the solder preform in a hot-bar selective soldering process. Also disclosed is a high-temperature-resistant, lead-free solder joint and a field device of automation technology for determining and/or monitoring the process variable of a medium with a high-temperature-resistant, lead-free solder joint.

Abstract: A pressure measuring device includes a ceramic pressure sensor including a ceramic measuring membrane and a sensor mounting configured to secure the pressure sensor such that a membrane region of the measuring membrane surrounded by a membrane edge is contactable with a medium having a pressure to be measured. The sensor mounting includes a titanium or titanium alloy mounting element including an opening through which the membrane region is contactable with the medium. The membrane edge is connected directly with the mounting element by a diffusion weld produced by a diffusion welding method.

Abstract: A pressure sensor comprising two parts connected with one another via an active braze joint manufactured by active hard soldering, or brazing, with an active hard solder, or braze, especially a pressure contactable, pressure-dependently elastically deformable, measuring membrane, especially a ceramic measuring membrane, and a platform, especially a ceramic platform, which are connected by an active braze joint connecting an outer edge of the measuring membrane (which covers a pressure chamber with an outer edge of an end of the platform facing the measuring membrane, whose measuring characteristics are improved in that the active braze joint has a coefficient of thermal expansion dependent on the dimensions of the active braze joint and on the materials of the parts and matched to a coefficient of thermal expansion of at least one of the parts, especially the measuring membrane.

Abstract: An active brazing material for the energy-efficient production of active-brazed connections that consists of layer sequences arranged on top of one another, the layer sequences of which consist of layers arranged on top of on another, the layer sequences of which each comprise at least one layer of brazing material, wherein the layers of brazing material of each layer sequence each contain at least one component of a base active braze and, in conjunction with each other, contain all components of the base active braze, the layer sequences of which each comprise at least one first reaction layer consisting of a first reactant to which at least one second reaction layer is directly adjacent in the active brazing material and consists of a second reactant that exothermally reacts with the first reactant, wherein an enthalpy of formation of the exothermic reaction of the reactants is greater than or equal to 45 kJ/mol—in particular, greater than or equal to 50 kJ/mol.

Abstract: A pressure measurement cell is disclosed including a base body, substantially cylindrical at least in sections, a measuring membrane joined to the base body in a pressure-tight manner along a perimeter joint to form a measurement chamber between the base body and the measuring membrane, and a joining material that joins the perimeter joint between the base body and the measuring membrane. The base body and/or the measuring membrane have/has a stepped recess into which the joining material is at least partially disposed, the stepped recess structured to yield a minimum distance between the base body and the measuring membrane.

Abstract: A pressure sensor comprising: a solid metal sensor body, having a front region and a base adjoining thereto, which has an outer edge, which can be clamped by means of a fastening device; a recess, which is provided in the front region and is open towards a front side of the front region that faces away from the base; a metal measuring diaphragm, to which a pressure is applied from outside during measurement operation and which can be deformed elastically depending upon the pressure, is arranged on the front side of the sensor body, closes off the recess from the outside, and is spaced apart from the outer edge of the front region; and an electromechanical transducer for detection, by means of measuring the pressure-dependent deformation of the measuring diaphragm, having at least one measuring element, which is electrically insulated from the measuring diaphragm and the sensor body by means of an insulating element.

Abstract: A differential pressure measuring cell comprises a measuring membrane; two opposing bodies; and one converter. The measuring membrane is arranged between the opposing bodies and is connected in a pressure-tight manner to the two opposing bodies, forming in each case one measuring chamber. The opposing bodies each have a pressure duct through which a pressure can be made to act upon the respective measuring chamber. The converter is provided in order to convert a deformation of the measuring membrane, which deformation is dependent upon a difference between the pressures, into an electrical signal; wherein the opposing bodies each have a chamber section oriented toward the measuring membrane and a rear wall section oriented away from the measuring membrane with, between these, a decoupling chamber.

Abstract: A method for connecting a component to a support via soldering between a first contact surface of the component and a second contact surface of the support. The method is distinguished by features including that at least one spacer is embodied in such a manner and arranged between the first contact surface and the second contact surface that the first contact surface and the second contact surface are spaced from one another, and that the soldering is executed in such a manner that the component and the support are connected with one another via the first contact surface and the second contact surface. Also claimed is a component connectable with a support via soldering is intended.

Abstract: A pressure sensor comprising two parts connected with one another via an active braze joint manufactured by active hard soldering, or brazing, with an active hard solder, or braze, especially a pressure contactable, pressure-dependently elastically deformable, measuring membrane, especially a ceramic measuring membrane, and a platform, especially a ceramic platform, which are connected by an active braze joint connecting an outer edge of the measuring membrane (which covers a pressure chamber with an outer edge of an end of the platform facing the measuring membrane, whose measuring characteristics are improved in that the active braze joint has a coefficient of thermal expansion dependent on the dimensions of the active braze joint and on the materials of the parts and matched to a coefficient of thermal expansion of at least one of the parts, especially the measuring membrane.

Abstract: An assembly comprising: two ceramic bodies, which are joined by means of a joint of an active hard solder, or braze, wherein the active hard solder, or braze, has a continuous core volume, which is spaced, in each case, from the ceramic bodies by at least 1 ?m, and an average composition CK with a liquidus temperature Tl(CK), wherein the composition CK has a coefficient of thermal expansion ?(CK), wherein ?(CK)=m·?(K), wherein m?1.5, especially m?1.3 and preferably m?1.2, wherein ?(K) is the average coefficient of thermal expansion of the ceramic material of the ceramic bodies, wherein the joint has boundary layers, which border on the ceramic body, wherein at least one of the boundary layers, which lies outside of the core volume, has an average composition CB with a liquidus temperature Tl(CB), which lies not less than 50 K, preferably not less than 100 K, and especially preferably not less than 200 K, under the liquidus temperature Tl(CK) of the average composition CK of the core volume.

Abstract: Method for soldering a connection element to a connection point on an electrically conductive coating that is suitable for soft-soldering on an insulating surface of a base body using a soft-soldering method; as well as sensors manufactured using this method for which a spatial limitation of the wetting of the coating with soft-solder material, during the process of soft-soldering, is effected by providing a groove in the base body which at least partly surrounds the connection point on the outside. At least a part of the area of the external insulating surface of the base body including the connection point is coated with the coating, and soft-solder material is locally applied to the connection point and the connection element is soldered onto the connection point using the applied soft-solder material in a soft-soldering process.

Abstract: A pressure sensor, including a platform of ceramic, a measuring membrane arranged on the platform, a pressure measuring chamber enclosed in the platform under the measuring membrane, and at least one metal body connected with the platform via a pressure-tight, preferably elastomer free, mechanical connection. Thermomechanical stresses arising from the connection are reduced by features including that the pressure-tight, mechanical connection occurs via an adapting body arranged between the platform and the metal body. The adapting body has a thermal expansion coefficient, which rises in direction (z) extending from the platform to the metal body from a coefficient of expansion corresponding to a thermal coefficient of expansion of the ceramic of the platform to a coefficient of expansion corresponding to the thermal coefficient of expansion of the metal body, and the adapting body is connected by a first joint with the platform and by a second joint with the metal body.

Abstract: A sintered body comprises a first region which comprises a first material having a first effective coefficient of thermal expansion ?1, a second region which comprises a second material having a second effective coefficient of thermal expansion ?2, a transition region between the first region and the second region in which the effective coefficient of thermal expansion changes from the first effective coefficient of thermal expansion to the second effective coefficient of thermal expansion. The transition region has a sequence of layers with a mixture of at least the first material and the second material, with the mixing ratio of the layers varying in order to achieve a stepwise, in particular monotonic, change in the coefficient of thermal expansion.

Abstract: An active brazing material for the energy-efficient production of active-brazed connections that consists of layer sequences arranged on top of one another, the layer sequences of which consist of layers arranged on top of on another, the layer sequences of which each comprise at least one layer of brazing material, wherein the layers of brazing material of each layer sequence each contain at least one component of a base active braze and, in conjunction with each other, contain all components of the base active braze, the layer sequences of which each comprise at least one first reaction layer consisting of a first reactant to which at least one second reaction layer is directly adjacent in the active brazing material and consists of a second reactant that exothermally reacts with the first reactant, wherein an enthalpy of formation of the exothermic reaction of the reactants is greater than or equal to 45 kJ/mol—in particular, greater than or equal to 50 kJ/mol.

Abstract: A pressure measurement cell is disclosed including a base body, substantially cylindrical at least in sections, a measuring membrane joined to the base body in a pressure-tight manner along a perimeter joint to form a measurement chamber between the base body and the measuring membrane, and a joining material that joins the perimeter joint between the base body and the measuring membrane. The base body and/or the measuring membrane have/has a stepped recess into which the joining material is at least partially disposed, the stepped recess structured to yield a minimum distance between the base body and the measuring membrane.