Patent ID: 7082836

Claim:
A pressure averager ( 1 ), especially a flange pressure averager, with a base body ( 10 ) and a separating membrane ( 5 ) fastened to a side ( 14 ) of the base body ( 10 ) in a fastening area ( 6 ) for the separating membrane ( 5 ) that can be loaded from the outside with a pressure, characterized by at least one recess ( 9 ) in the base body ( 10 ) on the side of at least a part of the fastening area ( 6 ) of the separating membrane ( 5 ), whereby at least one recess ( 9 ) in the base body ( 10 ) is dimensioned (t, b) in such a manner that tensions deforming the base body ( 10 ) are not transferred or are transferred only in a reduced state onto the fastening area ( 6 ) and/or the separating membrane ( 5 ), in which the fastening area ( 6 ) for the separating membrane ( 5 ) is formed by a web, in particular a narrow web ( 6 ′).