A differential pressure indicator includes a multi-polar driving magnets train clamped on a piston pin that moves in response to the changes in pressure conditions, thereby driving a multi-polar follower magnet carrying an indicating member, to move across a scale for a total angular range of 90° to 270°. The exact angular displacement of the follower magnet per unit linear displacement of the driving magnets train is decided by varying the relative magnetic strengths of the driving and follower magnets or by varying the spacing between adjacent magnets of the driving magnetic train. Further, magnetic flux of an auxiliary magnet fitted on the piston pin at a 90° orientation relative to the driving magnet train is utilized for actuating a magnetic switch in the switch assembly.

A differential pressure indicator includes a multi-polar driving magnets train clamped on a piston pin that moves in response to the changes in pressure conditions, thereby driving a multi-polar follower magnet carrying an indicating member, to move across a scale for a total angular range of 90° to 270°. The exact angular displacement of the follower magnet per unit linear displacement of the driving magnets train is decided by varying the relative magnetic strengths of the driving and follower magnets or by varying the spacing between adjacent magnets of the driving magnetic train. Further, magnetic flux of an auxiliary magnet fitted on the piston pin at a 90° orientation relative to the driving magnet train is utilized for actuating a magnetic switch in the switch assembly.

A differential pressure indicator includes a multi-polar driving magnets train clamped on a piston pin that moves in response to the changes in pressure conditions, thereby driving a multi-polar follower magnet carrying an indicating member, to move across a scale for a total angular range of 90° to 270°. The exact angular displacement of the follower magnet per unit linear displacement of the driving magnets train is decided by varying the relative magnetic strengths of the driving and follower magnets or by varying the spacing between adjacent magnets of the driving magnetic train. Further, magnetic flux of an auxiliary magnet fitted on the piston pin at a 90° orientation relative to the driving magnet train is utilized for actuating a magnetic switch in the switch assembly.

An ascent rate indicator mechanism includes a first wheel set and a pressure sensor. The first wheel set is connected to the pressure sensor driven in rotation by a pressure variation. The mechanism further includes a second wheel set driven by the first wheel set in a single direction of rotation from a start position into a measurement position corresponding to a decrease in pressure, uncoupling and return structure to be actuated at regular intervals to uncouple the second wheel set and to return it to the start position, an ascent rate display mechanism connected to the second wheel set and including an indicator member arranged to occupy, at each regular interval, a display position representative of the decrease in pressure during the interval, and synchronization structure actuated at each regular interval and arranged to maintain the display position of the indicator member during the regular interval.

Adaptive attachments used in combination with a blood pressure cuff enable various blood pressure measurements to be taken in a hospital or other setting having various single and/or dual lumen manual or electronic blood pressure measuring equipment with a single, patient-worn cuff.

A remotely interrogatable pressure transition indicator (100) having a pressure sensitive element (110) interacting with a remotely interrogatable mechanical switch (120). The pressure sensitive element (110) is a hermetically sealed, gas impermeable, flexible walled sachet (110) containing a quantity of gas, operable for transitioning between inflated and deflated conditions induced by a change in external gaseous pressure experienced by the sachet (110). The sachet (110) interacts with the mechanical switch (120) to producing a first interrogatable value when the sachet (110) is inflated and a second interrogatable value when the sachet (110) is deflated.

Altitude measurement device including an atmospheric pressure sensor arranged to be compressed or to expand in a rectilinear direction as a function of the atmospheric pressure to be measured which increases or decreases, wherein the movements of deformation of the atmospheric pressure sensor are transformed, via a transmission system, into a pivoting motion, in a plane perpendicular to the rectilinear direction of deformation of the atmospheric pressure sensor, of an activation system which drives the pivoting of an indicator hand, wherein the indicator hand moves over a graduated circular scale, wherein the atmospheric pressure sensor is arranged to be able to be moved in one direction or in the opposite direction depending on the rectilinear direction of deformation thereof relative to the other components of the altitude measurement device, wherein the atmospheric pressure sensor is mounted on a seat which is fixed in a support, which forms a case with a cover.

Adaptive attachments used in combination with a blood pressure cuff enable various blood pressure measurements to be taken in a hospital or other setting having various single and/or dual lumen manual or electronic blood pressure measuring equipment with a single, patient-worn cuff.

Sealed device for calibrating an altitude measurement device comprising an atmospheric pressure sensor whose movements of deformation are converted, via a transmission system, into a pivoting motion of an activation system that drives the pivoting of an indicator hand, wherein a sensing element bearing on the atmospheric pressure sensor is rigidly fixed to a transmission shaft movable along its longitudinal axis of symmetry, wherein the calibration device includes an air intake that can adjust the pressure inside the calibration device as required, and also includes a first button via which the axial position of the transmission shaft can be adjusted, and a second button via which it is possible to move the atmospheric pressure sensor up or down. The invention also concerns a method for calibrating the altitude measurement device using the sealed calibration device.

A MEMS chip for wind speed measurements is provided. The chip integrates one or multiple embedded channels and a pressure sensor. The pressure sensor consists of a sensing membrane with a cavity beneath it. Each channel has one end connects to the cavity while the other end opens on the edge of the chip. To measure the wind speed, the membrane faces the wind and the air stagnates onto it while the channel connects the cavity to the static pressure. And the membrane deforms according to the wind pressure. The wind speed is then derived from the measured wind pressure.