US 12,104,969 B2
Sensor for detecting pressure and/or filling level and/or flow rate and/or density and/or mass and/or temperature
Alexander Wiegand, Erlenbach (DE); Paul Hanesch, Aschaffenburg (DE); Franz-Josef Lohmeier, Miltenberg (DE); Juergen Pleyer, Stockstadt (DE); Alexander Will, Laudenbach (DE); Andreas Broenner, Johannesberg (DE); Joachim Ciba, Buergstadt (DE); Andre Rother, Woerth a.M. (DE); Jens Kressbach, Klingenberg/Main (DE); Ulrich Staab, Klingenberg/Main (DE); and Mirko Di Marco, Klingenberg/Main (DE)
Assigned to Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG, Klingenberg/Main (DE)
Filed by WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG, Klingenberg/Main (DE)
Filed on Oct. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/502,960.
Application 17/502,960 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2020/060448, filed on Apr. 14, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 110 190.5 (DE), filed on Apr. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0034732 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. G01L 1/22 (2006.01); G01F 1/34 (2006.01); G01K 7/18 (2006.01); G01K 7/34 (2006.01); G01L 9/00 (2006.01); G01L 19/00 (2006.01); G01L 19/14 (2006.01)
CPC G01L 1/22 (2013.01) [G01F 1/34 (2013.01); G01K 7/18 (2013.01); G01K 7/34 (2013.01); G01L 9/0051 (2013.01); G01L 9/0072 (2013.01); G01L 19/0061 (2013.01); G01L 19/147 (2013.01); G01L 19/148 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sensor for detecting at least one of a pressure, a filling level, a flow rate, a density, a mass or a temperature, the sensor comprising:
nanowires; and
sensor components comprising a first sensor component and at least one further sensor component,
wherein the sensor components are crimped to one another,
wherein at least one side of at least one of the sensor components is provided with the nanowires at least in an area of the crimping,
wherein the sensor components are fixed to one another by the nanowires through at least one of a force fitting connection and a form fitting connection,
wherein at least one connection is formed between the sensor components in the area of the crimping by the nanowires, the at least one connection being at least one of a sealing connection or a thermally conductive connection, and
wherein an electrically conductive connection is also formed between the sensor components in an area of the crimping by the nanowires, and
the sensor further comprising a partner component that is provided in addition to the first sensor component and the at least one further sensor component, wherein one of the at least one further sensor component is a printed circuit board, a printed circuit board connector or an electronic component, wherein the one of the at least one further sensor component is fixed to the partner component by the nanowires.