Patent ID: 7197937

Claim:
In a fluid pressure sensor having a ceramic capacitive element with a pressure responsive surface, the method comprising the steps of forming a housing with a bottom wall having a recess, mounting a flexible metal diaphragm on the bottom wall over the recess in fluid sealed relation therewith, taking an element having a selected thickness to define an open area and having flow passages extending from within the open area to without the open area, placing the element in engagement with the metal diaphragm, dispensing a sufficient quantity of curable, flexible adhesive liquid resin into the open area to fill the space in the open area, inserting the ceramic capacitive element into the housing with the pressure responsive surface facing the bottom wall, moving the ceramic capacitive element into engagement with said element defining an open area to enclose the space defined by the element, the ceramic capacitive element and the metal diaphragm and displacing any excess liquid adhesive resin through the flow passages, and curing the adhesive resin in situ in the housing.