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US 7,134,354 B2Granted
Display for process transmitter
AssigneeRosemount Inc.
InventorsScott D. Nelson, John Brewer
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Abstract
A transmitter for use in a process control system for monitoring an industrial process includes a housing having a top and a bottom and a height extending therebetween. A parallelogram display is mounted to the housing. Sides of the parallelogram display are arranged at angles relative to the height of the housing.
Claims24
A transmitter for use in a process control system for monitoring an industrial process, comprising:
- a housing having a top and a bottom and a height extending therebetween, the housing including a cylindrical portion sealed with round end cap containing a window;
- a process variable sensor configured to sense a process variable of the process and responsively provide a process variable output;
- transmitter circuitry in the housing configured to provide a display output;
- a parallelogram display mounted to the housing in the cylindrical portion with sides of the parallelogram display at an angle relative to the height of more than zero degrees and less than ninety degrees, the display visible through the window of the end cap;
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- the display configured to display information in response to the display output.
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A transmitter for use in a process control system used to monitor an industrial process, comprising:
- a housing, the housing including a cylindrical portion sealed with a round end cap containing a window;
- a process variable sensor configured to sense a process variable of the process and provide a process variable output responsively;
- transmitter circuitry coexisting in the housing configured to provide a display output;
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- a parallelogram display in the cylindrical portion configured to display information related to the display output and having four sides and mounted to the housing configured to display a plurality of characters aligned with a character axis, the character axis arranged at an angle of more than zero degrees and less than ninety degrees to the sides of the parallelogram display, the display visible through the window of the end cap.
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