The bellows refers to a tubular elastic sensing member that is connected in a folding and contracting direction by a foldable crepe sheet. Its open end is fixed, the sealed end is free, and the auxiliary coil spring or reed is used to increase the elasticity. During operation, it is elongated along the length of the tube under the action of internal pressure, so that the movable end generates a displacement in a certain relationship with the pressure. The active end drives the pointer to directly indicate the pressure. Bellows are often combined with displacement sensors to form a pressure sensor that outputs electricity, sometimes as an isolation element. Since the bellows stretch requires a large volume change, its response speed is lower than that of the Bourdon tube. The bellows is suitable for measuring low pressure.
Types of bellows: Corrugated pipes mainly include metal bellows, bellows expansion joints, corrugated heat exchange tubes, diaphragm bellows and metal hoses. Metal bellows is mainly used to compensate for the thermal deformation, shock absorption and absorption line deformation of pipelines. It is widely used in petrochemical, instrumentation, aerospace, chemical, electric power, cement, metallurgy and other industries. Other materials such as plastic bellows have an irreplaceable role in the fields of medium transportation, power threading, machine tools, and home appliances.
Bellows: A pressure measuring elastic element in a pressure measuring instrument. It is a cylindrical thin-walled corrugated casing with a plurality of transverse corrugations. The bellows is elastic and can be displaced under the action of pressure, axial force, lateral force or bending moment. Bellows are widely used in instrumentation and are mainly used as measuring elements of pressure measuring instruments to convert pressure into displacement or force. The bellows tube wall is thinner and has higher sensitivity, and the measurement range is from tens of Pa to tens of MPa. In addition, the bellows can also be used as a sealing spacer to separate the two media or prevent harmful fluids from entering the measuring portion of the device. It can also be used as a compensating element to compensate for the temperature error of the instrument with its variability in volume. It is sometimes used as an elastic joint for two parts. The bellows can be divided into metal bellows and non-metal bellows according to the constituent materials; according to the structure, it can be divided into single layer and multiple layers. Single-layer bellows (see figure) are used more. Multi-layer bellows have high strength, good durability and low stress, which are used in important measurements. The material of the bellows is generally bronze, brass, stainless steel, Monel and Inconel.
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