Miniature combination valve and pressure transducer and system

An improved method of pressure measuring, wherein improvements are made in placing a miniaturized pressure measuring device into contact with a medium of pressure to be measured, and wherein said improved method comprises the steps of:

• (a) providing an assembly comprising an appropriately shaped and dimensioned pressure transducer assembled into an appropriately shaped and dimensioned housing, said housing having an inner and an outer surface, said inner and outer surfaces being opposite of each other, said housing having an appropriate opening between said opposite surfaces for said shaped pressure transducer to be placed such that said pressure transducer extends at least part way through from one surface to the opposite, and said pressure transducer being substantially an integrated circuit with an improved shape,
• (b) providing within said pressure transducer a means for signaling a measured pressure value to the opposite surface of said housing from the surface to which the medium of pressure to be measured is applied,
• (c) providing a means of mating said assembly with an appropriately sized and shaped sealable opening of a container holding said pressure medium or with a similar opening of a tube in communication with the pressure medium, and upon mating creating a seal between said assembly, including said housing, and said sealable opening such that the pressure medium does not leak from the sealed opening,
• (d) mating said assembly into said sealable opening, afterward applying pressurized medium to the mated assembly, and
• (e) thereafter measuring pressure by means of said transducer and signaling at least one parameter indicative of the applied pressure.