Integrated Fluid Pressure Sensing in Deformable Valve Chambers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fluid-dynamic devices lack integrated pressure sensing capabilities, resulting in bulky and expensive standalone pressure sensors that cannot be easily integrated into other fluid-dynamic components to independently detect fluid pressure.
Innovation Solution
A fluid-dynamic device with an integrated sensor element featuring an elastically deformable portion and a sensor element sensitive to deformation, utilizing a deposit of functional material with varying electrical properties, allowing for compact integration within fluid-dynamic circuits to detect pressure and other fluid characteristics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If standalone pressure sensors are used to detect fluid pressure, then pressure detection capability is achieved, but the overall device dimensions increase and cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the pressure sensor with the valve body into a single integrated unit. The sensor element is positioned within the valve body such that it directly contacts the fluid flowing through the valve, eliminating the need for separate pressure sensing components and reducing overall device volume while maintaining pressure detection capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The valve body is designed to serve multiple functions: it acts as both the fluid control component and the housing for the pressure sensor. The sensor element integrated within the valve body allows the same device to perform both flow control and pressure measurement functions simultaneously.
2Measurement precision
If standalone pressure sensors are used to detect fluid pressure, then pressure detection capability is achieved, but the device cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the pressure sensor with the valve body into a single integrated unit. The sensor element is positioned within the valve body such that it directly contacts the fluid flowing through the valve, eliminating the need for separate pressure sensing components and reducing overall device volume while maintaining pressure detection capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The valve body is designed to serve multiple functions: it acts as both the fluid control component and the housing for the pressure sensor. The sensor element integrated within the valve body allows the same device to perform both flow control and pressure measurement functions simultaneously.
3Measurement precision
If standalone pressure sensors are connected by derivation from the fluid-dynamic circuit, then pressure detection is possible, but the sensors cannot be integrated into other fluid-dynamic components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the pressure sensor with the valve body into a single integrated unit. The sensor element is positioned within the valve body such that it directly contacts the fluid flowing through the valve, eliminating the need for separate pressure sensing components and reducing overall device volume while maintaining pressure detection capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The valve body is designed to serve multiple functions: it acts as both the fluid control component and the housing for the pressure sensor. The sensor element integrated within the valve body allows the same device to perform both flow control and pressure measurement functions simultaneously.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables compact, cost-effective, and reliable pressure detection within fluid-dynamic devices, reducing overall circuit dimensions and eliminating the need for separate pressure sensors, while allowing dynamic control of fluid flow based on detected parameters.
Implementation Method 1
a first chamber (2), suitable for the containment and/or the passage of a fluid... comprising at least one portion (6), elastically deformable due to the action of the fluid contained therein and/or passing through said first chamber (2), to which a sensor element (7) is associated which is sensitive to the deformation of said elastically deformable portion (6)
Implementation Method 2
whose electrical properties, and in particular whose electrical resistance (and/or impedance and/or capacitance), vary according to its deformation
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AI summary
A fluid-dynamic device with integrated sensor element includes a first chamber suitable for the containment and/or the passage of a fluid, provided with an inlet opening operatively connectable to a fluid-dynamic circuit and configured to allow a fluid to enter the first chamber, and with a separate outlet opening, operatively connectable to a fluid-dynamic circuit and configured to expel said fluid from the first chamber. The first chamber includes at least one portion elastically deformable due to the action of the fluid contained therein and/or passing through the first chamber, to which a sensor element is associated which is sensitive to the deformation of the elastically deformable portion of the first chamber.