A housing of a field device of measuring- and automation technology, comprising a housing body, which has at least two housing chambers, wherein the housing chambers are connected together by an opening. The opening is adapted to accommodate a circuit board which is held by at least one holder, wherein the circuit board is adapted to be populated with electronic components or assemblies. The opening is Ex-d sealed with a potting compound.

A system for controlling industrial and domestic devices includes a monitor and a cylindrical body. The monitor comprises a multitouch screen of the capacitive type and a panel that has an interface adapted to receive the cylindrical body. The cylindrical body further includes a cavity that is adapted to contain a data receiving device and is further adapted to be fixed to industrial and domestic devices.

The invention relates to a field device of automation technology with an opened housing and an electronics part in the housing, comprising at least one component for filling potting compound into the housing, wherein the component has a trough, in order to conduct the potting compound, with targeting, to a location of the housing to be potted.

A measurement transducer having a sensor for converting a physical or chemical variable into an electrical signal which can be further processed, and an electronics unit proximate the sensor, for pre-processing the electrical signal and generating a measurement signal, wherein an evaluation device is connected to the receiver by an interface for transmitting the measurement signal and serves to determine a measurement value as a function of the measurement signal and output the measurement value, and so that the sensor can be operated at a relatively high temperature and the electronics unit arranged proximate the sensor, for reducing measurement noise is operable at a relatively low temperature, the electronics unit proximate the sensor, is provided with a thermal insulation with respect to the sensor and is cooled by a heat pipe, and where the evaluation device housing approximately at ambient temperature preferably serves as a heat sink.

The disclosure relates to a method of installing a first connector for mounting along a longitudinal axis of a housing, in a field device housing, in which the connector is not installed along a longitudinal axis of the field device housing, but parallel to a transverse axis of the field device housing. The method comprises the following steps: providing a first circuit board; providing the field device housing; radially introducing the second circuit board into the field device housing through the housing opening; positioning the first connector of the first circuit board in or at the housing opening; inserting the second rigid connector of the first circuit board into the rigid counterpart connector of the second circuit board; introducing a connector sleeve which precisely fits the first connector into the housing opening and pushing the connector sleeve over the first connector; and welding the connector to the field device housing.

A device for receiving a display, and for introduction into a display holder, for a field device of automation technology includes an essentially planar, rectangular, device body having a receiving area formed on a first side of the device body for receiving a display. At least one spring element is arranged on a second side of the device body and formed in such a manner that in a restrained state, in which the device is secured on a support plate, the spring element exerts a spring force on the support plate in such a manner that the device presses the display arranged in the receiving area in the direction of a normal vector of the receiving area.

An automation field device having a housing and a modular field device electronics unit located inside the housing. The electronics unit has a first circuit board having at least one first and one second plug-in connector element, wherein the first plug-in connector element is used to electrically connect a peripheral unit, wherein both the first and the second plug-in connector elements can be contacted essentially from the same preferred plug-in direction, and a second circuit board having at least one third plug-in connector element, wherein the circuit boards are arranged such that the second plug-in connector element is connected to the third plug-in connector element in a detachable manner to electrically connect the peripheral unit to the second circuit board, and the second circuit board has at least one opening, via which the first plug-in connector element of the first circuit board is accessible for connecting the peripheral unit.

A programmable logic controller includes control units. In the programmable logic controller, the control units are installed in such a manner that side surfaces of adjacent ones of the control units have an interval therebetween. In the programmable logic controller, the control units are configured in such a manner that the interval between the side surfaces of adjacent ones of the control units can be set according to an installation environment of the programmable logic controller.

A field device has a housing providing EMC-protection. The housing includes a conductive housing core, which is surrounded on all sides by a non-conductive housing jacket secured thereon by force-interlocking, e.g. frictional interlocking, or by material bonding. At least one electrically conductive barrier is placed on and connected with an electrically conducting region of the housing core and divides the interior of the housing into at least two chambers with different degrees of EMC-protection. The barrier contains a passageway, with which at least a first electronic circuit and a second electronic circuit, which are located in different chambers, are contacted with one another. The circuits are contacted by spring contacts against regions of the housing core, which are led through the housing jacket into the interior, wherein transitions to a sensoror lid in the housing by means of screw threadand/or wiping contacts are so arranged that these kinds of components are electrically connected with the housing core and wherein seals of the transitions protect against environmental influences.

A pressure resistant adapter, for connecting a transmission line to a field device, comprising, insertable into an opening in a housing wall of a housing of the field device, a shell, which in the assembled state has an interior open to an interior of the housing and closed to the exterior by an end wall of the shell, installed in the shell, an insert, which includes a base element arranged in the shell and a projection protruding out of the shell through an opening in the end wall of the shell. The base element has a basal area, which is greater than a basal area of the opening in the end wall of the shell, a connection element, which is provided on an end of the projection protruding out from the shell and to which the transmission line is connectable, extending through a bore in the projection and connected to a connection contact of the connection element, at least one conductor, which extends through a window, which is located in the base element adjoining the bore in the projection and which is open to the interior of the housing, and a potting compound, which fills hollow space remaining in the shell.