Capacitive pressure sensor with a pressure measuring
cell (10) for detecting the pressure of a medium in a container and an evaluation circuit (30) for preparing and
processing the measuring signals transmitted by the pressure measuring
cell (10), wherein the pressure measuring
cell (10) has a pressure-sensitive measuring
capacitor (C M ) and a reference
capacitor (C R ) and the pressure measuring cell (10) is connected to the evaluation circuit (30) via three lines (L1, L2, L3), wherein a first line (L1) is connected to a common
electrode (COM) of measuring
capacitor (C M ) and reference capacitor (C R ), a second line (L2) to the measuring capacitor (C M ) and a third line (L3) to the reference capacitor (C R ) leads, wherein the evaluation circuit (30) comprises a first
operational amplifier (OP1), the low-impedance output of which is connected to the common
electrode (COM) via the first line (L1), characterized by that the common
electrode (COM) is used in addition to the
temperature measurement of the medium applied to the pressure measuring cell (10) and the
temperature measurement is carried out exclusively via the common electrode (COM), in that the common electrode (COM) is connected to a fourth line (L4) in addition to the third line (L3), by means of the third and fourth lines (L3, L4) the
voltage drop across the common electrode (COM) is tapped and fed to an evaluation unit (AWE), and that at the output of the evaluation unit (AWE) a
voltage signal U Temp corresponding to the temperature detected by the common electrode (COM), wherein the common electrode (COM) is designed as a meandering resistance track and the
pressure sensor (1) comprises a
constant current regulator (KSR), by means of which the common electrode (COM) is supplied with a
constant current I via a fourth line (L4) konst is applied, whereby the
constant current I konst from the output of the first
operational amplifier (OP1), so that the course of the tapped
voltage only depends on the medium temperature.