Fisher Controls International LLC

Fisher Controls Company, Inc.

Gerald F Varnum

George Wayne Gassman

David E Wiklund

Christopher C Duke

A fluid filled force or pressure sensor for measuring an external force such as a fluid pressure. The apparatus includes a housing having a substantially planar backup surface, a flexible diaphragm having its radially outer portion sealed to the backup surface of the housing. A variable volume fluid chamber is formed between the backup surface and the diaphragm and is filled with a pressurized working fluid causing the diaphragm to flex outwardly away from the backup surface. The apparatus also includes a sensor chamber formed in the housing and in fluid communication with the variable volume fluid chamber. Mounted within the sensor chamber is a means for sensing variations in the density of the working fluid within the sensor chamber, such variations in density being caused by flexing of the diaphragm as a result of variations in the external pressure to be measured.

Pressure sensor

A positioner-actuator control system includes a pair of relays and a pivotally mounted beam for operation thereof in response to a pneumatic control signal. A summing beam has forces applied to it from an input signal, a controlled device position lever, a zero adjustment and a damping mechanism comprising a pair of flat springs attached to the relay beam and to the summing beam. A clamp is movable along the flat springs to permit user adjustment of the damping force.

Positioner having user-adjustable dynamic response

A pneumatic process controller includes a nozzle mounted on a set point lever and a flapper with a connected process lever. The set point lever pivots the nozzle about a set point and input axis in response to set point adjustment. The process lever pivots the flapper about the same axis in response to the process variable. The nozzle and set point lever are mechanically separated from the flapper and process lever. Artificial effect upon the process variable from set point adjustment is eliminated.

Growing community of inventors

Marshalltown, IA, United States of America

Gerald F Varnum