Zweitor

English translation: two-port (device, sensor)

15:34 Mar 29, 2008

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Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng / pressure measurement

German term or phrase: Zweitor

"Zweitor-Messverfahren des Sensors". This appears in the description of a relative pressure sensor, which has two connections for pressure hoses. I find plenty of references to Zweitor as a 4-terminal circuit element in electronics (e.g., under Wikipedia "Vierpol"), but my text seems to refer to a pressure-measurement analogy. What is the English translation of Zweitor in electronics? Might the same word apply to this pressure-measuring instrument?

Jack Becconsall KudoZ activity Questions: 14 (none open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 41 United Kingdom
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English translation:two-port (device, sensor)

Explanation:
Can also be used for electronic devices, but in the case of a pressure sensor, it means that it has two ports for connection to a source of pressure (or vacuum), and thus can be used as a differential sensor. A single-port device can only be used as a gauge sensor.

'Dual-port' is also used, but more commonly for electronic devices, and it at least implies that the ports are funcitionally equivalent.

sample refs:

Smart Sensors And MEMS - Google Books Result
by Sergey Y. Yurish, Maria Teresa S. R. Gomes - 2004 - Technology - 480 pages
As shown in Figure 12, one-port sensors have a single pair of connections for both stimulus and response, while two-port sensors have two separate ...
books.google.nl/books?isbn=1402029276...

Coaxial two port waveguide flowline sensor - Patent 5677631
A two-port, coaxial, waveguide flowline sensor for transmitting TEM mode electromagnetic radio frequency signals through borehole fluids flowing through a ...
www.freepatentsonline.com/5677631.html

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Ken Cox
Local time: 05:48

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Thanks very much to both answerers, essentially identical in their translation. I chose Ken's answer as the most helpful for the additional highly relevant comments and information.
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two-port, two input

GWM123

two-port (device, sensor)

Ken Cox

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two-port, two input

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Langenscheidts Fachwörterbuch Elektronik

GWM123
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Asker: Thanks - seems to be the solution.

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two-port (device, sensor)

Ken Cox
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Grading comment

Thanks very much to both answerers, essentially identical in their translation. I chose Ken's answer as the most helpful for the additional highly relevant comments and information.

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks Ken. I think this fits.

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