Self-correcting electronically scanned pressure sensor
Abstract
A multiple channel high data rate pressure sensing device is disclosed for use in wind tunnels, spacecraft, airborne, process control, automotive, etc., pressure measurements. Data rates in excess of 100,000 measurements per second are offered with inaccuracies from temperature shifts less than 0.25% (nominal) of full scale over a temperature span of 55 C. The device consists of thirty-two solid state sensors, signal multiplexing electronics to electronically address each sensor, and digital electronic circuitry to automatically correct the inherent thermal shift errors of the pressure sensors and their associated electronics.
- Publication:
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Report
- Pub Date:
- August 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983nasa.reptU....G
- Keywords:
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- Error Correcting Codes;
- Pressure Sensors;
- Scanners;
- Solid State Devices;
- Accuracy;
- Circuits;
- Digital Techniques;
- Multiplexing;
- Patents;
- Temperature Sensors;
- Instrumentation and Photography