EP2057452A2 - Unité de détection - Google Patents

Unité de détection

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EP2057452A2
EP2057452A2 EP07785111A EP07785111A EP2057452A2 EP 2057452 A2 EP2057452 A2 EP 2057452A2 EP 07785111 A EP07785111 A EP 07785111A EP 07785111 A EP07785111 A EP 07785111A EP 2057452 A2 EP2057452 A2 EP 2057452A2
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measuring
sensor unit
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medium
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Ernst Obermeier
Biswajit Mukhopadhyay
Jochen Von Berg
Ulrich Albicker
Marco Gnielka
Claudio Cavalloni
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Kistler Holding AG
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01L—MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE
    • G01L19/00—Details of, or accessories for, apparatus for measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluent medium insofar as such details or accessories are not special to particular types of pressure gauges
    • G01L19/0061—Electrical connection means
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01L—MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE
    • G01L19/00—Details of, or accessories for, apparatus for measuring steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluent medium insofar as such details or accessories are not special to particular types of pressure gauges
    • G01L19/0061—Electrical connection means
    • G01L19/0069—Electrical connection means from the sensor to its support
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01L—MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE
    • G01L9/00—Measuring steady of quasi-steady pressure of fluid or fluent solid material by electric or magnetic pressure-sensitive elements; Transmitting or indicating the displacement of mechanical pressure-sensitive elements, used to measure the steady or quasi-steady pressure of a fluid or fluent solid material, by electric or magnetic means
    • G01L9/0041—Transmitting or indicating the displacement of flexible diaphragms
    • G01L9/0042—Constructional details associated with semiconductive diaphragm sensors, e.g. etching, or constructional details of non-semiconductive diaphragms

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  • the invention relates to a sensor unit for measuring a measured variable, in particular in an aggressive medium, a sensor with a sensor unit according to the invention, and an internal combustion engine, a hydraulic or pneumatic tool and an air conditioner with a sensor unit or a sensor according to the invention.
  • the problem also arises here that the sensor is influenced by the installation as such, that is to say by the contact with the machine, since the installation itself produces a coupling between the machine and the sensor, for example thermally or mechanically induced tensions are transmitted to the sensor, which simulate in the sensor due to its piezoelectric or other measuring principles measurement signals that do not originate from the medium to be measured and thereby distort the actual measurement signal in a completely undue manner.
  • the customer's request increasingly goes to small sensors, e.g. are equipped with an M5 connection thread, and at the same time permit highly accurate measurements, whereby in particular the measurement of pressure and / or temperature in aggressive gaseous and liquid media is increasingly becoming the focus of interest. In addition, more and more is required that such sensors are also high temperature.
  • Such known sensors generally include a sensor housing with a flush-mounted steel membrane, on which the measuring medium acts, whereby the arranged behind the steel membrane chip, the measuring electronics, ie Eg a piezoresistive or piezoelectric measuring element comprises, is protected.
  • the coupling between the steel diaphragm and the chip arranged behind the steel diaphragm, that is to say the chip arranged in the interior of the sensor housing, is then realized either via a liquid, eg silicone oil, mercury or another suitable liquid coupling medium or via a mechanical coupling.
  • a liquid eg silicone oil, mercury or another suitable liquid coupling medium or via a mechanical coupling.
  • liquid-filled pressure sensors are not suitable for high-temperature applications, especially because of thermal expansion effects of the coupling medium with increasing temperature, the measurement results are increasingly distorted and in the worst case, the sensor by the construction of too high an internal pressure in the coupling medium due to high ambient temperatures even can be destroyed.
  • the measuring medium acts directly on the processed, i. provided with piezoresistors, metal interconnects, Metallan gleichpads etc. front of the chip, which is often a working on the piezoresistive principle chip on a semiconductor basis, usually made of the materials silicon or SOI (Silicon On Insulator).
  • chip coatings are often used in the DCE sensor, which in turn can adversely affect the properties and overall performance of the sensor or limit its field of application and / or temperature range.
  • chip coatings also commonly referred to in the specialist literature as chip coating, often protect against certain media or only against certain properties of the medium and are in turn vulnerable to other media and / or other properties of the medium, which of course in relation to various technical applications, the range of use of such a sensor is considerably limited.
  • DCE sensors Another massive disadvantage of the aforementioned DCE sensors is that the chips carrying the measuring electronics are wire-contacted to an external evaluation electronics for the purpose of transmitting the measuring signal. These wire connections or wire contacts for chip contacting are particularly susceptible to vibration and therefore a frequent cause of failure in environments subject to vibration, such as in internal combustion engines or turbines. The miniaturization potential is also limited by these wire connections.
  • a chip bonded completely to glass is contacted by means of a flip-chip technique, so that the sensitive wire bonds, so can be dispensed with the wire connections.
  • Flip-chip technology is a contact method well known to those skilled in the art of sensor technology, in which the chip is turned over such that its front side provided with the measuring electronics points in the direction of the contacting surface, the chip being attached to substantially rigid contact bars, pins or pads is arranged, on the one hand electrically contact the chip for signal transmission and on the other hand at the same time wear and stabilize the chip mechanically (see, for example, WO 98 58409).
  • Kistler A somewhat similar approach is also followed by a further development of Kistler. Again, the measuring medium no longer acts on the processed chip front but on the unprocessed chip back.
  • the chip contacting is no longer done by means of wire bonding but also via a flip-chip connection described above, which, as mentioned, not only electrically contacts the chip, but at the same time mechanically fixes it.
  • the seal to the chip front that is, the media separation, for example, via a robust perforated membrane, which is a dense and flexible or soft bond (which may be performed for example by means of RTV) with the back of the chip or its glass body, is connected.
  • the chip front must be arranged in the sensor housing as described above, and the design is also limited in terms of miniaturization.
  • Pressure measuring elements with discrete electrical components connected by means of plated-through holes are known from DE 10 2004 013 073.
  • a pressure measuring membrane is introduced into a substrate made of ceramic, glass or plastic.
  • electrical components connected by means of conductor tracks are applied to at least the surface opposite the membrane by thin-film and / or thick-film technology.
  • Such designs have the following known disadvantages for sensory applications: they have no miniaturization potential, low sensitivity, and no batch fabrication capability.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to provide a novel sensor unit available, which does not have the known from the prior art disadvantages, allows a largely rising miniaturization and can be used in particular in aggressive and '/ or polluted media, largely insensitive Vibration is, and above all can be used even at high ambient temperatures, the measurement results are not affected by temperature influences.
  • the invention thus relates to a sensor unit for measuring a measured variable in a medium, in particular in an aggressive liquid or gaseous medium, comprising a sensor arranged in a sensor capsule with a sensor region arranged on a base body, wherein for detecting the measured variable in the sensor region in the Sensor capsule a measuring port is provided.
  • the sensor region On one side facing the measuring opening, the sensor region has a measuring surface provided with measuring electronics, wherein an electrical supply line is provided on the sensor for transmitting a sensor signal generated by the measuring electronics.
  • the base body and measuring electronics consist of semiconductor materials.
  • plated-through holes are provided in the main body through which the measuring electronics are signal-connected through the main body to the electrical supply lines on a base side of the sensor remote from the measuring opening.
  • the side of the main body to which the contacts are attached has no measuring electronics.
  • the sensor is arranged on the base side so sealingly on the sensor carrier that the reference surface of the sensor area is isolated from the measuring medium and the measuring medium acts only on the measuring surface.
  • the measuring electronics can completely dispense with the metal structures which are sensitive to aggressive media, and only the internal silicon structures interact with the medium to be measured.
  • the sensor unit according to the invention is structurally much simpler, is hardly susceptible to vibration and acceleration and it is no costly protection of the processed chip front by sealing measures, steel membranes, etc. necessary because the sensor area, so the chip front, where the detection of Measured variable is made, is exposed directly to the medium to be measured. Since, in addition, no coupling medium is necessary, the sensor according to the invention can also be used without problems in high-temperature applications.
  • the measuring electronics for protection against the medium with a cover layer in particular with a thin passivation layer of silicon oxide and / or silicon nitride provided.
  • silicon structures which are only resistant to aggressive media are exposed to the measurement medium so that external protection and insulation coatings are used.
  • gene (chip coatings) such as can be dispensed with a protective coating with the polymer parylene. Only the passivation layer made of silicon oxide and / or silicon nitride, which is known per se in microelectronics, can advantageously be deposited on the chip front side.
  • the inventive chip can be produced batchwise, which greatly reduces the cost. Necessary for this production are the materials used, namely semiconductor materials for the main body and the measuring electronics.
  • the inventive design of the sensor with the electrical lead on the back allows miniaturization, since no leads must be passed over the edge of the sensor from the front to the electrical leads in the carrier plate, which would take up space.
  • a reference means can be provided, so that a reference surface opposite the measuring surface can be acted upon by a reference measurement variable.
  • a reference measurement variable can be acted upon by a reference measurement variable.
  • the size to be measured is a relative quantity which is to be considered in relation to a reference measured quantity.
  • a typical example is the measurement of a relative pressure or a pressure difference, wherein it does not depend on the absolute magnitude of the pressure that prevails, for example, in the aggressive medium to be measured.
  • the reference means may be, for example, a feeder over which the reference surface with a reference medium, for example with a gas or a liquid which is under a predetermined pressure is applied.
  • the reference means can also be an aggressive medium, since the reference surface (chip back side) consists of chemically inert silicon.
  • a perforated membrane is provided at the measuring opening of the sensor unit. This can in particular serve to prevent the penetration of coarse dirt particles into the sensor capsule or to protect the sensor region of the sensor from the harmful effects, e.g. from the harmful abrasive effects caused by coarse protective particles carrying the medium to be measured.
  • the senor is arranged on a sensor carrier, in particular on a glass or silicon wafer, which carries the sensor and on which the sensor is mechanically fixable.
  • the senor may be sealingly connected to the sensor carrier in a predeterminable region on the base side for media separation between the measuring surface and the reference surface, in particular by means of an anodic bonding process.
  • the bonding process used is primarily anodic bonding, when the sensor carrier is made of glass.
  • Another known technique is Silicon Fusion Bonding (SFB) when the sensor carrier is silicon.
  • a silicon base body can be sealingly connected to the glass wafer in a predefinable area by anodic bonding.
  • the glass wafer ie the sensor carrier, is for example, but of course not necessary, a pyrex glass which has a composition of about 80% SiO 2 , 14% B 2 O 3 , 4% Na 2 O and 1% Al 2 O 3 may include.
  • Pyrexglases has for example the advantage, which is the coefficient of expansion of about 3.3 x 10- 6 / K approximately equal to the thermal expansion coefficient of silicon, which is 10- 6 / K at about 2.5 x.
  • This choice of materials automatically provides a decoupling means so that the sensor area of the sensor can be thermally decoupled from its surroundings in the sense that thermal fluctuations, such as temperature fluctuations, can not adversely affect the measurement result.
  • decoupling means also means other means or measures which are suitable for decoupling the sensor from thermal and / or mechanical changes in such a way that a measurement result e.g. is not affected by thermal fluctuations, in particular by temperature fluctuations.
  • a typical anodic bonding process is known to proceed as follows: the silicon base body and the glass wafer are brought into close contact and heated to a temperature between 300 0 C and 500 0 C, preferably for example to 450 0 C. Then, a negative DC voltage, for example, between 700V and 1000V, applied to the glass wafer at grounded Si wafer. Due to the high electric field and the high temperature, Na + ions migrate away from the glass-wafer-silicon interface, in particular from the Pyrex-silicon interface and leave unsaturated oxygen bonds in the glass. The silicon atoms thus form solid chemical SiO bridges, which lead to the connection.
  • the seal for media separation between the chip front side and the back side of the chip can be advantageously produced by an anodic bonding process of the silicon base body with the sensor carrier designed as a glass wafer.
  • This anodic bonding process can be carried out as standard on the wafer scale.
  • the senor and thus the sensor unit itself is a high temperature sensor, i. e.g. with a chip made in SOI technology.
  • SOI Silicon On Insulator
  • the SIO technology is preferred for high temperature applications.
  • the typical structure of a layer sequence in SOI technology consists of a substrate made of silicon or a silicon compound onto which a thin, preferably dielectrically insulating layer, which can be approximately 0.5 ⁇ m thick, for example, is applied, which is often also referred to in the art as BOX.
  • Layer is called because it forms a dielectric insulating layer between the substrate and a second silicon layer (SOL), which is applied to the layer referred to as BOX layer and, for example, may also have a thickness of about 0.5 microns.
  • SOL second silicon layer
  • the silicon layer applied to the BOX layer comprises, for example, the measuring electronics, ie piezoresistive and / or piezoelectric elements or silicon interconnects, which are electrically driven by the BOX layer from the silicon substrate. are isolated. This is one of the important reasons why SOI technology has proven particularly advantageous in high-temperature applications.
  • a decoupling means can be provided for decoupling interfering thermal and / or mechanical effects, with which the sensor can be decoupled from thermally and / or mechanically induced changes, in particular from the sensor capsule.
  • the sensor By virtue of the fact that a decoupling means is provided with which the sensor can be decoupled from thermally and / or mechanically induced changes in the sensor capsule, the sensor essentially only measures the properties of the medium which acts directly on the sensor region of the sensor. That is, disturbing influences, which are coupled by the inevitable coupling of the sensor with the sensor housing in the known sensor units can be almost completely suppressed by the specific embodiment of the present invention.
  • the decoupling means may include, for example elastic media, so that changes in the sensor housing, such as tensions or changes in length due to thermal or mechanical influences, thermal strains due to temperature fluctuations or mechanical stresses, for example, by the installation of the sensor in a device are not transmitted to the sensor itself, so that the measuring electronics are not interfere with the ambient environmental influences is applied, and the measurement accuracy and sensitivity of the sensor is significantly improved compared to the prior art.
  • the measuring electronics include, for example, piezoelectric or piezoresistive sensors for measuring pressure, force or acceleration.
  • the senor is, for example, a pressure or temperature sensor on a piezoelectric or piezoresistive basis for measuring a pressure or a temperature in a medium
  • mechanical stresses on the sensor housing transmitted to the sensor can lead to the measurement signal being falsified and the sensor to be switched on Sensor signal generated that does not correspond to the actual pressure or the temperature of the medium.
  • the decoupling means may be formed between the base body and the sensor carrier and / or between the sensor carrier and a carrier plate.
  • the decoupling agent may e.g. be realized in that two materials in direct contact with each other have the same or similar large thermal expansion coefficients see.
  • the decoupling means can also be advantageously provided in the region of the electrical supply line, so that no negative thermal and / or mechanical influences are coupled into the sensor via the electrical contacting.
  • the decoupling means can be realized by an approximation of the thermal expansion coefficients between the base body and / or the sensor carrier and / or a connecting means and / or the sensor capsule and / or the carrier plate.
  • the support plate may be made of a material having a thermal expansion coefficient, which is similar to that of silicon or glass, so that the thermally induced tensions to be coupled remain low from the outset.
  • This can be for example a ceramic or special expansion alloy.
  • the decoupling means may of course be configured simultaneously or alternatively in such a way that the sensor can also be decoupled from direct thermal effects by the sensor capsule.
  • the measuring electronics comprises a temperature sensor for measuring a temperature of the medium. In this case, it is particularly important that there is no heat or temperature transfer between the sensor and the sensor capsule, so that the sensor actually detects the correct temperature of the medium, and not a temperature that has been falsified by thermal influences on the sensor capsule.
  • the decoupling means is provided on a radially outwardly directed peripheral surface of the sensor and also, as described above, acts as a seal.
  • glass will usually decouple mechanical distortions only very inadequately. However, if, for example, it only depends on a very reliable measurement of the temperature of the medium, which is not influenced by mechanical distortions in the sensor due to the measuring principle, the material glass or other poorly heat-conducting materials can nevertheless be used advantageously as a decoupling agent.
  • the sensor unit will often comprise a fastening means, for example a built-in housing with a threaded screw connection, in particular with an M5 thread, or with a quick-release fastener, eg with a bayonet fitting.
  • a fastening means for example a built-in housing with a threaded screw connection, in particular with an M5 thread, or with a quick-release fastener, eg with a bayonet fitting.
  • the fastening means itself is designed as a decoupling means, so that the sensor capsule can be decoupled from thermally and / or mechanically induced changes in the installation environment.
  • a sensor unit comprises a sensor comprising a pressure sensor and / or temperature sensor, in particular a piezoresistive sensor and / or a piezoelectric sensor, e.g. is a piezoelectric temperature sensor.
  • the electrical supply line is particularly advantageously designed as a substantially inflexible pin, or it is a substantially inflexible implementation for the supply line, which may be in this case, for example, a flexible electrical line, provided the implementation then you can fix the sensor.
  • the inflexible pin or the inflexible bushing can be connected via a decoupling means, which is e.g. a more or less elastic plastic or e.g. a resin or a resinous substance can be decoupled from thermally and / or mechanically induced changes in the sensor capsule.
  • the invention further relates to a sensor with a sensor unit, in particular for measuring a gas pressure and / or a temperature in an engine inlet of an internal combustion engine and / or in an engine outlet and / or in a combustion chamber and / or in a motor housing and / or in an exhaust system, and or for measuring a pressure and / or a temperature in a turbine, in particular in a gas turbine or for measuring a pressure and / or a temperature of an engine oil, a brake fluid, a hydraulic oil, a transmission oil, a fuel, in particular diesel or gasoline, one Coolant, or a coolant, in particular of water.
  • the invention relates to an internal combustion engine, a hydraulic or pneumatic tool or an air-conditioning device with a sensor unit and / or with a measuring sensor, as described in detail above.
  • FIG. 1 shows a sensor unit according to the invention with passivation layer partly in section
  • FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of a sensor of a sensor unit according to the invention
  • FIG. 3 is a top view gem.
  • FIG. 2 a sensor surface with measuring electronics;
  • FIG. Fig. 4 is a back view gem. 2 shows a lower sensor surface with through-hole and metallization;
  • the figures are shown by way of example for a sensor manufactured from SOI technology.
  • the sensor can also be made of silicon or another suitable material instead of SOI.
  • Fig. 1 shows a schematic representation of an embodiment of an inventive sensor unit, which is referred to in the following as a whole by the reference numeral 1, partially in section.
  • the sensor unit 1 which is particularly suitable for measuring a measured variable in an aggressive medium 2, comprises a sensor capsule 3, in which a sensor 4, which is made of SOI in the illustrated example, for receiving a measured variable in the aggressive medium 2 is arranged.
  • the sensor unit 1 may be e.g. be used for the measurement of pressure and / or temperature of the engine oil in an internal combustion engine or of pressure and / or temperature of the gas in a turbine.
  • Fig. 1 is a simple pressure sensor for measuring the oil pressure in an internal combustion engine.
  • the sensor 4 comprises a sensor carrier 16, which in the present case is a sensor carrier 16 made of glass, that is to say a glass wafer, which is connected to the main body 5, which in the exemplary embodiment in FIG. 1 is made of silicon, by anodic bonding.
  • the main body 5 has a sensor region 6 sensitive to the measured variable, on which the medium 2 acts, which flows through the measuring opening 7 into the sensor unit 1 enters.
  • the inner area of the sensor unit 1 is protected at the measuring opening 7 by a perforated membrane 71, and the aggressive medium 2, in this case hot oil 2, enters the interior of the sensor unit 1 through the openings 72 of the perforated membrane 71.
  • measuring electronics 8 On one of the measuring opening 7 side facing an insulated via the box layer 22 from the base body 5 measuring electronics 8 is provided on a measuring surface 9, which for transmitting a generated by the measuring electronics 8 sensor signal to an evaluation unit, not shown in Fig. 1, with an electrical Supply line 10 is connected.
  • the base body and measuring electronics consist of semiconductor materials.
  • the measuring electronics 8 can e.g. consist of piezoresistive or piezoelectric elements, strain gauges or other sensory components and is connected to the transmission of the electrical measurement signals via connecting bridges 80 with a feedthrough 11, whose function will be described in more detail below.
  • the measuring surface 9 with measuring electronics 8 and connection bridges 80 is provided against the effects of the aggressive medium 2 in this embodiment with a cover layer 13, which in the present case is a passivation layer 13, which is e.g. is constructed of silicon oxide and / or silicon nitride.
  • the electrical lead 10 is configured in the form of a substantially inflexible pin 10, which may be, for example, a more or less rigid pin 10 of steel, copper or gold or other suitable material.
  • the pin 10 of the electrical supply line 10 has no significant mechanical support function and can in another Embodiment of a sensor unit 1 according to the invention can also be embodied as a more or less flexible wire 10, which is guided, for example, in a glass insulation 181 and the through-connection 11 and is thus also reliably protected against vibration influences.
  • the electrical supply line is in any case a more or less rigid metallic pin 10, which is guided in the region of the steel plate 18 in the glass insulation 181, so that the pin 10 is electrically insulated from the support plate 18 is.
  • the pins are preferably so strong that they can be used to fasten the base body 5.
  • the support plate 18 may also be made of a suitable other metal, except for the aforementioned steel, or a metal alloy, or even made of another electrically non-conductive material such as a ceramic, so that the glass insulation 181 may be missing ,
  • the more or less rigid pin 10 can also contribute to the mechanical stabilization of the arrangement.
  • the through-connection 11 is provided, via which the measuring electronics 8 pass through the main body 5 through to the electrical supply line 10, that is to say with the mea- ,
  • the via 11 preferably comprises a suitable electrically conductive material, e.g. a special solder or glass-metal paste.
  • a suitable electrically conductive material e.g. a special solder or glass-metal paste.
  • an insulating layer 20, not shown in FIG. 1 can be provided between through-connection 11 and main body 5 on the main body 5 in the region of the via 11.
  • an oxidic insulating layer may be provided, to which on a side facing the via 11 may additionally be applied a metallization 21 likewise not shown in FIG. 1, preferably a high-temperature metallization which also withstands high temperatures, ie in particular not oxidized and stable and constant ohmic contact ensured.
  • the electrical contact between the metallization 21 and the connection and connection region 80 can be ensured by the selective removal of the insulating layer 20 and the box layer 22 in the region of the contact area between the through connection 11 and the connection and connection region 80 to be carried out before the metallization.
  • decoupling means 17 In order to decouple the sensor 4 from thermal and / or mechanically induced changes, in particular by the sensor capsule 3, various measures are provided as decoupling means 17 in the example of FIG.
  • the sensor carrier 16 is made of a glass or silicon already described above, e.g. Pyrex glass formed, which has a coefficient of thermal expansion of that of the silicon from which the base body 5 is constructed, is equal or very similar in size, so that when temperature changes mechanical stresses between the sensor carrier 16 and body 5 are largely avoidable.
  • a glass or silicon already described above e.g. Pyrex glass formed, which has a coefficient of thermal expansion of that of the silicon from which the base body 5 is constructed, is equal or very similar in size, so that when temperature changes mechanical stresses between the sensor carrier 16 and body 5 are largely avoidable.
  • the carrier plate can be made of a material which has a coefficient of expansion which is very similar to the behavior of glass or silicon.
  • the exemplary embodiment of a sensor unit 1 according to the invention shown in FIG. 1 also has a reference means 14, which in the present case is designed as an access channel 14, through which the reference surface 15 opposite the measuring surface 9 can be acted upon by a reference measured variable Po is.
  • a reference means 14 which in the present case is designed as an access channel 14, through which the reference surface 15 opposite the measuring surface 9 can be acted upon by a reference measured variable Po is.
  • the underside of the sensor 4 is acted upon by the access channel 14 with a fluid, for example a gas or a liquid, under a predeterminable pressure, so that the sensor unit 1 of FIG especially good for dif- reference pressure measurements is suitable.
  • a fluid for example a gas or a liquid
  • the reference means 14 may be aggressive nature in this embodiment. It is understood that in another embodiment, the reference means 14 may also be absent.
  • FIG. 2 shows, in particular, the sensor 4 of the already described FIG. 1 in a somewhat detailed view, and the reference numerals of FIG. 2 as well as those of FIGS. 3 and 4, which will be described below, all refer to FIGS the same technical features as in Fig. 1. That is, the same reference numerals designate consistently features that have the same technical function, but of course, while maintaining the essential technical function in concrete can be designed differently.
  • the feedthrough 11 is provided, via which the measuring electronics 8 through the base body 5 and the box layer 22 with the electrical supply line 10, ie with the metallic pin 10, on the side facing away from the measuring opening 7 base side 12, which forms the underside of the base body 5 according to the representation, is signal-connected.
  • the via 11 preferably comprises a suitable electrically conductive material, in particular a solder or a glass-metal paste.
  • a metallization 21 is applied, which in the example of FIG. 2, a high-temperature metallization 21, which also withstands high temperatures, that is in particular not oxidized and ensures a stable and constant ohmic resistance.
  • a high-temperature metallization 21 which also withstands high temperatures, that is in particular not oxidized and ensures a stable and constant ohmic resistance.
  • the measuring electronics 8 and the connecting bridge e.g. is designed as a connecting and connecting region 80 is arranged for electrical insulation against the base body 5 on a BOX layer 22, which is essentially simply an insulating layer 22, which, for. May be 0.5 microns thick and on top of the main body 5, between the base body 5 and measuring electronics 8, and connecting bridge 80 or connection and connection area 80 and / or the cover layer 13 is arranged.
  • FIG. 3 shows a top view according to FIG. 2 of a sensor surface of a sensor 4 with measuring electronics 8.
  • the measuring surface 9 acts on the medium in the operating state of the sensor unit 1, for example by pressurization.
  • the insulating BOX layer 22 is provided on the main body 5 of the sensor 4 .
  • the BOX layer 22 thus forms a thin insulating layer 22 between measuring electronics 8 and connection bridge 80 on the one hand and the silicon base body 5 on the other hand.
  • the connection bridge 80 is preferably designed as a highly doped SOL connection region (P ++ doped).
  • FIG. 4 is finally a back view gem.
  • FIG. 2 shows a lower sensor surface with through-hole and metallization. That is, FIG. 4 shows the parallel opposite view of the sensor 4 shown in FIG.
  • the reference surface 15 of the sensor region 6 is shown, to which a reference measurement variable P 0 is applied for a reference measurement.
  • the plated-through hole 11 Passed through the main body 5 is the plated-through hole 11, which is in stable electrical ohmic contact for producing an electrical signal connection with the measuring electronics 8, not visible in FIG. 4, via the metallization 21, which in the present case is a high-temperature metallization 21.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne une unité de détection pour mesurer une grandeur de mesure dans un fluide (2), notamment dans un fluide (2) liquide ou gazeux agressif, comprenant un capteur (4) disposé dans une capsule (3) de détection avec une zone (6) de détection disposée sur un corps (5) de base. Selon l'invention, une ouverture (7) de mesure est prévue dans la capsule (3) de détection pour l'acquisition de la grandeur de mesure dans la zone (6) de détection. La zone (6) de détection présente sur un côté dirigé vers l'ouverture (7) de mesure une surface (9) de mesure dotée d'une électronique (8) de mesure. Selon l'invention, une ligne (10) d'arrivée électrique est prévue sur le capteur (4) pour la transmission d'un signal de capteur généré par l'électronique (8) de mesure. Conformément à l'invention, il est prévu dans le corps (5) de base un contact (11) traversant par le biais duquel l'électronique (8) de mesure est reliée en signalisation à travers le corps (5) de base avec la ligne (10) d'arrivée électrique sur un côté (12) de base à l'opposé de l'ouverture (7) de mesure du capteur (4).
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