A system for generating purified water from polluted water which includes an entry chamber communicating with a source of polluted water, a pump for delivering water vapor from the entry chamber to the vapor chamber, and a passageway for delivering condensed water from the vapor chamber to a reservoir of purified water.

A pressure sensor includes an optical transmitter transmitting a dispersive light toward two optical receivers, all carried in a housing. Pressure changes on the housing cause the light beam to be deflected with the amount of deflection measured by the difference in light received by each of the two receivers. A processor operable with the receivers provides a pressure measurement responsive to the light beam deflection.

A mounting structure for a pressure sensor serves to facilitate easy attachment of the pressure sensor as well as easy detachment thereof without requiring any large work space. A pair of elastic snap fit portions (8) are formed on a surge tank (4) so as to protrude from a surface thereof, and have engagement protrusions (8a) formed at their one end, respectively, so as to protrude to a side opposite to a case (2). A pair of engaged portions (2b) are formed on the case (2) so as to be engaged wi...

A pressure sensor for measuring an external pressure fabricated upon a ceramic substrate penetrated by a via extending from the top to the bottom of the ceramic substrate is disclosed. A sacrificial layer is deposited on a portion of the top of the ceramic substrate in communication with a via. A diaphragm material is then deposited on the sacrificial layer, thereby creating a diaphragm surface. A sensor element for transducing a mechanical deflection into an electrical signal is applied to the ...

A pressure sensor includes a sensor element having a sensing portion for generating a signal upon receiving a pressure, a pressure transmission member having one end attached to a sensing portion of the sensor element and a diaphragm having two sides that warp under application of the pressure. One side of the diaphragm serves as a pressure sensing surface for detecting the pressure applied thereon and another side serves as an attachment surface to be attached to another end of the pressure tra...

A pressure sensor is provided having a housing, a process connection which is connected to the housing and serves to feed a medium whose pressure (p) is to be measured to a membrane which his arranged in the housing, said membrane, in operation, undergoing a deflection which depends on the pressure (p) which is to be measured, which pressure sensor can have a seal made of a chemically highly resistant material and in which the membrane can consist either of ceramic or metal, which pressure senso...

A pressure contact for making an electrical connection with another contact has two end parts spaced apart along a longitudinal axis, a central spring section having a midpoint lying on the longitudinal axis, a plurality of side spring sections at least one of which extends at an acute angle to the longitudinal axis, and a plurality of loops between and connecting the spring sections. The central and side spring sections together with the loops form a meander spring so that displacement of one o...

Embodiments of example apparatuses and methods for changing nip pressure are described.

A pressure sensor for static and/or dynamic pressure measurement of a liquid, flowable, or gaseous medium is described, with a housing (2) and with a pressure measuring cell (3), on the side facing the medium an opening (4) being formed through which one side (5) of the pressure measuring cell (3) is directly or indirectly in contact with the medium to be monitored, and the pressure measuring cell (3) converting the pressure to be monitored into a proportional measurement signal by means of an e...

A reciprocating body 12 is reciprocably housed in a cylinder body 6, and a pressure rod 20 is reciprocably attached to this reciprocating body 12. A pressure end 20a of the pressure rod 20 protrudes from the cylinder body 12 toward the outside. By the reciprocating body 12 and diaphragms 17 to 19, an advance pressure chamber 27 and a weight offset pressure chamber 29 are partitioned and formed in the cylinder body 6. After the pressure end 20a is disposed vertically downwardly, the weight offset...