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Humidity meter
Assignee: TDK Corp
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Filing: 1994-06-15
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Granted: 1995-03-14
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Expires: 2014-06-15
Abstract
Abstract A humidity meter has a housing (1) which has a separated sensor room (5) recessed in said housing (1) for securing a humidity sensor assembly (3). The humidity meter also has an electronic circuit (2) mounted on a printed circuit board (21) fixed in said housing (1), for processing humidity signal supplied by said humidity sensor assembly (3). Some examples of the process are analog-digital conversion of measured humidity signal, visible indication on a display screen, and/or interface with external circuit. Said humidity sensor assembly (3) is removably fixed on said printed circuit board (21) which doubles as a bottom wall (53) of said sensor room (5).
Inventors
- 👤 Tsutomu Kotani
- 👤 Shiro Nakagawa
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 09:42
CPC Classifications
G; G01; G01N; G01N27/00; G01N27/02; G01N27/04; G01N27/12; G01N27/121
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim
183 words
A humidity meter comprising; a housing (1) having an inner space and a recessed sensor room (5) isolated from said inner space, said sensor room (5) having an open window, a humidity sensor assembly (3) secured in said sensor room (5), an electronic circuit (2) secured in said inner space and mounted on only one printed circuit board (21) fixed in said housing (1), for processing a humidity signal supplied by said humidity sensor assembly (3), said printed circuit board having a plurality of socket slots, said sensor room (5) having a cylindrical enclosing wall (523) engaged with a frame (51) fixed around said window of said housing (1), said cylindrical enclosing wall (523) circumferentially enclosing said sensor room (5), and a bottom wall (53) which is part of said printed circuit board (21), so that said sensor room (5) is completely isolated from said inner space of the housing (1), and said humidity sensor assembly (3) being fixed on said printed circuit board (21) by a plurality of conductive pins which pass through said slots, and are coupled with said electronic circuit.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
183 words
A humidity meter comprising; a housing (1) having an inner space and a recessed sensor room (5) isolated from said inner space, said sensor room (5) having an open window, a humidity sensor assembly (3) secured in said sensor room (5), an electronic circuit (2) secured in said inner space and mounted on only one printed circuit board (21) fixed in said housing (1), for processing a humidity signal supplied by said humidity sensor assembly (3), said printed circuit board having a plurality of socket slots, said sensor room (5) having a cylindrical enclosing wall (523) engaged with a frame (51) fixed around said window of said housing (1), said cylindrical enclosing wall (523) circumferentially enclosing said sensor room (5), and a bottom wall (53) which is part of said printed circuit board (21), so that said sensor room (5) is completely isolated from said inner space of the housing (1), and said humidity sensor assembly (3) being fixed on said printed circuit board (21) by a plurality of conductive pins which pass through said slots, and are coupled with said electronic circuit.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
44 words
A humidity meter according to claim 1, further comprising a resilient seal member (54) inserted between an end of said cylindrical wall (523) and said bottom wall (53) so that said sensor room (5) is sealed from said inner space of said housing (1).
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
37 words
A humidity meter according to claim 1, further comprising a circular cover (55) removably engaged with said cylindrical wall (523), an air flow gap between the cover (55) and the cylindrical wall (523) defining said open window.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
27 words
A humidity meter according to claim 1, wherein said cylindrical wall (523) has a sloped top portion (52a) along the air flow gap into said sensor room.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
27 words
A humidity meter according to claim 1, wherein a temperature sensor is secured in said sensor room, and is removably fixed on said printed circuit board (21).
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
120 words
A humidity meter according to claim 1, wherein said humidity sensor assembly (3) comprises a humidity sensor element (3a) which provides electrical impedance depending upon humidity, an impedance-frequency converter (23) which generates a frequency signal depending upon humidity, a differentiation circuit (24) having a variable time constant coupled with the output of said converter (23), a wave-form shaping circuit (25) coupled with the output of said differentiation circuit (24), an integration circuit (26) for feeding back the output of said wave-form shaping circuit (25) to a control input of said differentiation circuit (24), and another integration circuit (27) coupled with the output of said wave-form shaping circuit (25) to provide DC potential depending upon measured humidity at an output terminal.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
42 words
A humidity meter according to claim 6, wherein said differentiation circuit (24) has a capacitor (241) and a variable resistor having a series circuit of a collector-emitter circuit having transistor and a diode, connected between one end of said capacitor and ground.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
17 words
A humidity meter according to claim 7, wherein a second capacitor is coupled parallel to said diode.
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