Pressure sensors adopt compact IC packages

A Honeywell Sensing and Control product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Mar 1, 2005

New pressure sensors suit demanding applications using noncorrosive, nonionic working fluids like the air and dry gases found in medical equipment, altimeters, barometers and pneumatic controls.

The HPX Series of pressure sensors are suited for many demanding, high-performance applications using noncorrosive, nonionic working fluids like the air and dry gases found in medical equipment, altimeters, barometers and pneumatic controls.

The HPX Series pressure sensors provide high performance sensing in two different package configurations: DIP (dual inline package) and SOIC (small outline integrated circuit).

The gauge devices come in a 6-pin DIP, and the absolute devices come in an 8-pin surface mount SOIC package.

Both sensor styles are nonamplified and noncalibrated.

The user may provide the HPX Series sensors with amplification and signal conditioning circuitry to meet specific application requirements.

Typical applications include medical equipment, altimeters and barometers, pneumatic controls and leak detection.

"HPX sensors have a wide operating temperature range and excellent price for performance", said Honeywell Senior Product Specialist Mike Adkins.

HPX sensors feature Wheatstone bridge construction, silicon piezoresistive technology and ratiometric output that provide application flexibility, design simplicity and ease of end product manufacturing.

The miniature package sizes help reduce the overall size of the end product.

The series offers sensors with pressure ranges from 0 to 100lb/in2.

A wide operating temperature range of approximately -40 to +125C on most listings and fast response time of 1ms typically promotes sensor use in many applications.

The choice of absolute or gauge sensing types, as well as the surface mount and through-hole mounting configurations, provide flexibility in end product manufacturing.

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