Abstract: This rugged, temperature-shock-insensitive, and low-cost pressure sensor (1) has a diaphragm (2) and a substrate (3) which are alumina-ceramic parts, preferably with a purity of 96%, are joined together in a defined spaced relationship and parallel to each other by means of an intermediate layer, forming a, preferably closed, chamber, and have flat inner surfaces which are provided with at least one conductive layer for forming at least one capacitor and are electrically connected to the respective rear side of the diaphragm or substrate via through-hole coatings. For the conductive layers (6, 7, 8), the through-hole coatings (12, 13, 14), and the intermediate layer (5), use is made of a conductive paste or a resistive paste with a sheet resistivity not higher than 1 ohm/square, which are applied using silk-screening techniques.

Abstract: The substrate (12) and/or the diaphragm (11) of the pressure sensor (10) are made of ceramic, glass, or a single-crystal material. The side of the diaphragm (11) facing the substrate (12) is covered with a layer of silicon carbide, niobium, or tantalum which, in turn, is covered with a protective layer (21) and serves as one capacitor electrode (14). The side of the substrate (12) facing the diaphragm (11) is covered with at least one additional layer of any one of said materials which, in turn, is covered with an additional protective layer (22) and serves as the second capacitor electrode (15). Substrate (12) and diaphragm (11) are soldered together by a formed part of active solder (20) which also serves as a spacer.This pressure sensor can be manufactured in a single soldering step. The maximum load capacity of the diaphragm is determined not by the strength of the joint, but only by the strength of the diaphragm material.

Abstract: A drive system has a drive motor with an associated current regulator. The current regulator controls the semiconductor contact elements of an electronic power stage, which is arranged downstream from the drive motor. This control is a function of a rotor-position sensor, whose rotor part is coupled to the rotor of this motor and has a number of magnetic poles corresponding to the number of poles of the drive motor. Furthermore, the current setpoint that is supplied to the current regulator is increased by overlapping an auxiliary voltage during the respective instant of commutation. Torque fluctuations which are caused by manufacturing tolerances can be then be eliminated. On the circumference of the rotor part, a number of magnetic field sensors corresponding to the number of phases m of the drive motor are mounted at a spatial distance of 360.degree. /(p.m) to each other where p is the number of pole pairs of the drive motor.

Abstract: The invention provides an arrangement for determining the speed and rotor position of an electric machine, which arrangement consists of a tachometer generator having a permanent-magnet-excited rotor and a coaxially arranged rotor position transmitter which has a rotor body equipped with permanent magnets. Around the circumference of the rotor body magnetic-field sensitive sensor elements are arranged. A compact assembly of the tachometer generator and rotor position transmitter without detrimental mutual interference is possible by the provision that first permanent magnets magnetized in the tangential direction are arranged centered to the pole gaps of the tachometer generator rotor at the rotor body in such a manner that the sides of two adjacent permanent magnets facing each other have the same polarity as the magnet pole extending between the respective pole gaps of the tachometer generator rotor.