Altitude difference measuring apparatus
AssigneeNippon Soken, Inc.
InventorsYasuhisa Yoshino, Akira Kuno, Yoshio Shinoda
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Abstract
An altitude difference measuring apparatus for measuring the difference between the altitudes at a first and second points on the basis of the barometric difference between the points, having an air pressure holding section with an electromagnetic valve for hermetrically containing an amount of air. At the first place an amount of the ambient air is held hermetrically in the air pressure holding section, and at the second place the barometric difference between the air pressure in the air pressure holding section and the ambient air pressure is converted into an electric signal, and in accordance with the electric signal the difference between the altitudes at the first and second points is indicated.
Claims4
An altitude difference measuring apparatus for measuring the difference between altitudes at a first and at a second point comprising:
- a solid wall member forming a chamber of a fixed volume and having first and second openings communicating with the atmosphere;
- a semiconductor pressure sensor positioned to hermetically seal said first opening of said wall member, said pressure sensor delivering an electric signal corresponding to the difference between the pressures present in said chamber and in the atmosphere;
- an electromagnetic valve positioned adjacent to said second opening of said wall member and including a winding and a movable core, said movable core being normally biased to allow said chamber of said wall member to communicate with the atmosphere through said second opening and effective to hermetically seal said second opening during the energization of said winding;
- a circuit means for energizing said winding of said electromagnetic valve from the arrival at said first point until after the arrival at said second point;
- sample and hold means for sampling and holding said electric signal developed from said pressure sensor in synchronism with the arrival at said second point;
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- altitude difference detecting means for detecting the difference between the altitudes of said first and second points in response to the sampled and held electric signal.
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