Leak detection technology is a challenging research until nowadays, because it has wide and various applications in industry, such as gas pipeline leak detection, vacuum industry and mechanical component leak detection, etc. The growing needs for leak...
Leak detection technology is a challenging research until nowadays, because it has wide and various applications in industry, such as gas pipeline leak detection, vacuum industry and mechanical component leak detection, etc. The growing needs for leak-tight products, such as automotive components, pneumatic components, vacuum components, have made the demand on high performance leak detectors for increase of a quality control.
Numerous leak detection methods have been developed. Radio isotope, helium sniffing, ultrasonic, thermal conductivity, halogen sniffing, bubble immersion, flow measurement and differential pressure measurement are well-known leak detection methods that have been used in the leak detector manufacturing industry.
Also, pneumatic component reliability test based on ISO requires air leakage measurement. Pneumatic component has many seal parts and the leakage shall be measured before, during, and after endurance test, and the leakage should be smaller than the specified value. The existing measurement method needs complex operation and the calibration of the leak detector. And conventional methods have to separate the testing pneumatic component from endurance test device, which causes the change of contact condition of seal in the pneumatic component. Therefore, it is hard to evaluate the air leakage during endurance test, and do not guarantee the reliability analysis results of the conventional measurement method.
In this paper, a new method for air leakage measurement using an isothermal chamber is proposed, which does not requires calibration or temperature compensation, and can measure air leakage accurately with quite simple operations. As a result, reliability of air leakage measurement can be improved because the proposed method does not have to separate the testing components from the endurance test device for the air leakage measurement. The effectiveness of the proposed method is proved by simulation and experimental results.