Measuring and testing inventions 01/08

20080022751 - Methods and apparatus for insitu analysis of gases in electronic device fabrication systems: Systems and methods are disclosed that include adjusting a pressure level of a sample gas in a testing chamber, for example, using a pressurized inert reference gas, and determining a composition of the adjusted sample gas. By adjusting the pressure level of the sample gas, the composition of the sample... Agent: Dugan & Dugan, PC

20080022755 - Gas detection method and gas sensor: The invention provides a gas detection method and a gas sensor which utilize an amount of change in the electrical characteristic of a gas sensitive thin film with respect to the adsorption amount of a gas to be detected. The gas sensitive thin film (7) having characteristic detection electrodes (5,... Agent: Darby & Darby (formerly Sacco & Associates)

20080022756 - Measuring device: A sleeve comprising a hollow elongate body (3) have two ends, which sleeve is suitable for elastically gripping a rolled smoking article or a filter rod for rolled smoking articles in an airtight or substantially airtight fashion; characterized in that the sleeve is formed by molding whereby each end is... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080022758 - Orthogonal rheometer: Device for measuring the rheological properties of a viscoelastic material, formed of an upper rotating plate (10) and of a lower rotating plate (20) which are able to press against the opposite faces of a sample S of the material to be measured. The axes of rotation (a1a1′ and a2... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080022761 - Roller brake testing dynamometer: The present invention relates to a roller brake testing dynamometer (P) for vehicles whose braking forces are to be ascertained, wherein there is provided at least one roller (L) which is driven by way of a drive (A) in order in turn to drive a vehicle tyre (R) bearing against... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080022762 - Signal conditioning methods and circuits for a capacitive sensing integrated tire pressure sensor: A tire pressure monitoring system is provided that includes a switched capacitor circuit having a clock with two non-overlapping clock phases that control a state of analog switches of the switched capacitor circuit. The system uses tire pressure sensor MEMS capacitors that are measured differentially. A capacitance-to-voltage converter is connected... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20080022764 - On-line measurement for a pressure profile: A method for measuring a nip pressure and/or a pressure profile is provided, wherein a nip-forming roll is fitted with a pressure sensor under a coating layer which is protective and functions as a spring on top of the sensor, and the nip pressure delivers to the bottom surface of... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080022766 - Heating resistor type flow measuring device: A heating resistor type flow measuring device comprising a housing having a support part provided between a frame body and a connector and connected to the mounting part of a fluid passage, a flow rate detection element held on the frame body side of the housing, and an electronic circuit... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080022767 - Electro-optic liquid level sensing system for aircraft beverage brewing: The electro-optic liquid level sensing system detects a level of liquid in a container having an upper opening, such as for a server container of a beverage maker for a transport system, such as for aircraft, trains, trucks, buses and the like. A support housing mates with the upper opening... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20080022769 - Vibration gyro and the process of producing the same: An inclination of an inclined surface formed by working a ridge of a resonator is set to be within a predetermined angular range, whereby a leakage of vibration in the out-of-plane direction is reduced, the leakage of vibration being generated according to the detuning degree adjustment. In addition, a single... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080022770 - Semiconductor acceleration sensor: A semiconductor acceleration sensor having beam parts formed in substantially L-shape to surround a weight part, wherein formed to surround a square part, as seen in plan view and constituting the weight part, are two elongated L-shaped beam parts, at locations close to proximal end portions of which are formed... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080022772 - Method for ultrasonic testing of fitting assembly: Apparatus and method for determining relative and/or absolute axial position of a conduit end within a fluid coupling includes application of input ultrasonic energy in the form of transient shear waves and analyzing the reflected energy. Application of the input energy collected at different radial positions about a first axial... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080022773 - Ultrasonic material monitor for determining a characteristic of the material: A material characteristic measurement approach measures an internal state of a material by measuring the nonlinear shift in velocity induced by different acoustic energies. The technology for implementing this measurement approach is relatively simple, robust, permits portable measurements, does not require that an unloaded initial condition of the material be... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080022776 - Auto-positioning ultrasonic transducer system: An ultrasonic transducer apparatus and process for determining the optimal transducer position for flow measurement along a conduit outer surface. The apparatus includes a transmitting transducer for transmitting an ultrasonic signal, said transducer affixed to a conduit outer surface; a guide rail attached to a receiving transducer for guiding movement... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080022778 - Microfabricated pressure and shear stress sensors: A microfabricated pressure sensor. The pressure sensor comprises a raised diaphragm disposed on a substrate. The diaphragm is configured to bend in response to an applied pressure difference. A strain gauge of a conductive material is coupled to a surface of the raised diaphragm and to at least one of... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080022781 - Flow meter: The invention related to a flow meter for measuring the flow rate of a fluid flowing in a pipe according to the magnetic-inductive method. To this end, the flow meter comprises the pipe itself as well as an electrode arrangement integrated in the pipe and a magnetic system also integrated... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080022782 - Flow measurement apparatus having strain-based sensors and ultrasonic sensors: A flow measurement apparatus is provided that combines the functionality of an apparatus that uses strain-based sensors and ultrasonic sensors to measure the speed of sound propagating through a fluid flowing within a pipe, and measure pressures disturbances (e.g. vortical disturbances or eddies) moving with a fluid to determine respective... Agent: Cidra Corporation

20080022783 - Electrical machine and method for adjusting an axial spacing of the electrical machine: An electrical machine including at least one sensor, a transducer wheel at which the sensor axially picks up a signal, an end face of the sensor being adjacent to an annular face on one face end of the transducer wheel, a shaft, on which the transducer wheel is axially displaceably... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20080022784 - Load cell: To provide a load cell, having a force transducer for recording tensile and compressive forces that are to be determined, which can be produced more economically and, in particular, can also be handled more easily during the adjustment of the sensor arrangement than hitherto, the force transducer comprising a flectionally... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080022785 - Disposable, pre-sterilized fluid receptacle sampling device: The present invention provides a fluid sampling device comprising a port insert, a plurality of flexible conduits, and a plurality of sample containers. The port insert comprises a body having a plurality of shafts therethrough and a rotatably displaceable member for individually opening and closing any of said shafts to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080022787 - Portable discrete groundwater sampling system: Methods and systems are presented for discrete sampling of groundwater. The methods and systems presented are directed toward collecting groundwater samples at one or more locations below ground surface using one or more portable, vacuum-activated sampling devices including a collection chamber, one or more check valves, and a vacuum tube... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080022788 - Systems and methods for residue collection with improved letter handling capability: Systems and methods for the detection of substances (particularly particulate substances) within mail pieces, specifically letters and other “flats” of mail. In particular, the systems and methods are for the detection of residues of Chemical or Biological Warfare Agents (CBWAs) which may be present within the mail pieces. The system... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: BoxIPDept.

20080016941 - Calibrating device on a silicon substrate: The invention relates to a calibration device on a silicon substrate SU formed in addition to a reference level Nc by at least two distinct levels Ng, ND. These levels present distinct doping concentrations. The invention also provides a method of making the calibration device, the method including a definition... Agent: Horst M. Kasper

20080016943 - Apparatus, system, and method for low cost high resolution chemical detection: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for low cost high resolution chemical detection. The apparatus includes two outer sealing bodies with flow channels etched into the bodies. Two gas chromatography (GC) columns are between the outer bodies, with a valve that switches flow regimes from series flow through the... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080016945 - Humidity detector for detecting fogging on a window: The humidity detector comprises a housing adapted to hold a humidity sensor towards the windscreen of a vehicle or any other type of window. A flexible printed circuit board is arranged between the humidity sensor and the windscreen and provides a connection between the humidity sensor and further circuitry of... Agent: Richard F. Jaworski Cooper & Dunham LLP

20080016949 - Method for measuring gases and/or minimizing cross-sensitivities in fet-based gas sensors: A gas sensor based on a field effect transistor (“FET”) evaluates both a change in work function of a gas-sensitive layer of the FET and a change in the capacitance of the layer. Thus, two physically independent signals are read from the gas-sensitive layer, each signal representing a sensitivity to... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20080016951 - Method for leak testing and leak testing apparatus: For leak testing closed containers (9) which are filled with a filling product containing at least one liquid component the container is introduced in a test cavity (1) which is evacuated at least down to vapour pressure of that liquid component. The pressure in the surrounding of the container (9)... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080016952 - Apparatus and method for lateral pipe identification: The method for identifying lateral pipes includes printing identifying indicia on the interior surface of a liner assembly positioned adjacent the lateral pipe. The apparatus includes the liner assembly in place with the identifying indicia visible from the interior of the pipe line.... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080016954 - Procedure and control unit to diagnose a secondary air system: A procedure is introduced to test the functional capability of a secondary air system of an internal combustion engine, wherein values of a pressure are acquired, which arises in the secondary air system between the secondary air pump and a secondary air flow cross section, which can be controlled, when... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080016955 - Measurement of adherence between a vehicle wheel and the roadway: A tire includes, among the conventional tread pattern elements, at least one measuring element having a central zone and an encircling zone. In normal operation, the central zone 10 of a measuring element slides over the ground while, conversely, the tread as a whole does not slide over the ground.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080016956 - Mechanical synchronized mass flow controller: The mechanical synchronized time-based mass flow controller can control the flow rate easily and precisely. The mechanical synchronized time-based mass flow controller includes a reservoir 1a, 1b, an inlet line 14, an outlet line 24, a valve 3 and a control unit. The valve 3 has a passage 3a through... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080016963 - Acceleration sensor: An acceleration sensor, including: an oscillator unit for outputting an oscillator signal, the oscillator unit including a first piezoelectric vibrating reed having a vibrating arm that performs bending vibration, as well as an oscillator circuit for oscillating the first piezoelectric vibrating reed; a phase shifting unit for shifting and outputting... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080016966 - Differential pressure sensor arrangement and associated differential pressure sensor: The invention relates to a differential pressure sensor array comprising a differential pressure sensor which is inserted in a receiving space in the direction of the longitudinal axis thereof. At least one sealing element that separates the receiving space into a first and a second pressure zone when the differential... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20080016968 - Fluid flow meter and mixer having removable and replacable displacement member: Fluid flow apparatus, such as a fluid flow meter, a fluid mixing device or a fluid dispersing device, includes a fluid displacement member removeably mounted in a conduit and a pipe or tube extending through the wall of the conduit and having a portion extending through the displacement member to... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080016969 - Sample carrier having finger springs for holding sample tubes: A sample carrier comprising a lower support wall, a base joined to or in fixed proximity to a bottom end of the lower support wall, and sample tube receiving areas in fixed proximity to the lower support wall for receiving and holding a plurality of sample tubes in substantially vertical... Agent: Gen Probe Incorporated

20080016972 - Atomizer monitoring system: An atomizer monitoring system monitors parts or components that are utilized in atomizers for flue gas desulfurization or in spray drying applications, taking into account each part's longevity, installation date, and expiration period, using wireless sensors and radio frequency identification (“RFID”) technology, whereby small, inexpensive RFID tags are placed on,... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080011041 - Calibrating device for adapting a measuring the thickness of thin layers on an object to be measured: The invention relates to a calibrating device for adapting a measuring device for measuring the thickness of thin layers on an object to be measured, comprising a calibrating surface (12) having a flat upper side and a flat underside, which are provided at a distance with a predetermined thickness, characterized... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20080011045 - Displacement response sensor by pushing contact: The invention is about the displacement response sensor by push down contact, because the contact department (11) is consist of the materials that contains electric conduction and the plastics that the elasticity is good or the rubber of softness such as gum or silicon, when push down contact is made... Agent: Hyun Jong Park

20080011049 - Device and method for optical detecting substances contained in waste gases of chemical processes: The invention relates to a device and a method for the optical detection of substances contained in exhaust gases of chemical processes, wherein exhaust gases are conducted all the way through a channel element that forms an optical measuring section; at the channel element there are two flanges, closed off... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080011050 - Mesoporous nano-crystalline titania structures for hydrogen sensing: A structure includes a substantially non-conductive frame having an exterior surface. The structure defines a plurality of passages that open to the exterior surface. Mesoporous material is disposed in the plurality of passages and is supported therein by the frame. In a method for making a mesoporous nanocrystalline titania hybrid... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080011054 - Method for positioning a measuring sensor in a honeycomb body, corresponding honeycomb body, and motor vehicle: A method positions a sensor in a honeycomb body which is provided with hollow spaces that can be penetrated at least in part by an exhaust gas. The sensor is placed in an area of the honeycomb body in which at least one minimum hydrogen concentration occurs when the honeycomb... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080011052 - Soot sensor: A soot sensor includes a center electrode extending in an axial direction and a cylindrical insulator from which a leading end of the center electrode protrudes. The insulator is provided around a periphery of the center electrode and includes a heating element. The soot sensor also includes a sealing member... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080011053 - Soot sensor and operating method: A soot sensor includes a plurality of sensor elements including a base body having at least a part that is excitable to produce mechanical oscillations, the base body having at least one defined surface having predefined catalytic properties and subjected to a measurement gas, and a heating element acting on... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080011058 - Piezoresistive cantilever based nanoflow and viscosity sensor for microchannels: This invention provides a sensor to measure physical and/or chemical properties of viscous fluids. The sensor is based on microfabricated piezoresistive cantilevers. Deflection of these cantilevers is read out using, e.g., a wheatstone bridge to amplify and convert the deflection into a voltage output. The cantilevers and/or tips attached thereto,... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080011059 - Measurement of substances in liquids: In accordance with the present invention a measuring device compares the current generated by two working sensor active areas and gives an error indication if they are too dissimilar, i.e., the current at one sensor active area differs too greatly from what would be expected from considering the current at... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080011062 - Device with insert for analytical systems: A analytical device comprising a body comprising a fluidic unit comprising a first chamber having an outlet opening and a first channel exiting said outlet opening, wherein said first chamber further contains an insert comprising recesses between ribs touching the walls of said first chamber and a second channel, said... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080011063 - Sensor finger module for a pipeline inspection tool: An inspection sensor module for an in-line pipe inspection tool has a support for mounting the module on the tool, a finger pivotally attached at one end to the support and pivotally attached at the other end to a sensor block carrying one or more inspection sensors. A first leaf... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080011067 - Fully digitally controller for cantilever-based instruments: A controller for cantilever-based instruments, including atomic force microscopes, molecular force probe instruments, high-resolution profilometers and chemical or biological sensing probes. The controller samples the output of the photo-detector commonly used to detect cantilever deflection in these instruments with a very fast analog/digital converter (ADC). The resulting digitized representation of... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris

20080011068 - Apparatus and method of making and using the apparatus for adjusting engine valves: Described is a method of making and using an adherent indicia strip on a crankshaft pulley of a piston engine to adjust engine valves. The method includes cutting the strip to a length sufficient to exactly encircle the crankshaft pulley; placing midpoint marks onto a visible outside surface of the... Agent: Patent Law & Venture Group

20080011069 - Rough road detection system using normalization analysis: A rough road detection system for an engine having a crankshaft includes a control module and a comparison module. The control module receives a crankshaft speed signal and determines a crankshaft rotation time and a crankshaft acceleration and jerk. The crankshaft rotation time is based on said crankshaft speed signal.... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080011074 - Method of optically scanning the tread surface of a pneumatic tyre of a vehicle wheel: A method of and an apparatus for optically scanning the tread surface of a pneumatic tyre 10 which for forming a vehicle wheel 1 is mounted on a disc wheel 5, wherein measurement data are obtained along a plurality of peripheral lines by light beam scanning, said data corresponding to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080011076 - Flow sensor: A flow sensor for flowing media with a cylindrical housing (2) and with a sensor element located in the housing (2), the housing (2) preferably having an outside thread (3) and being screwable into a union (4) of a pipe (5) or into an opening of a connecting piece (43).... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20080011077 - Electro-optic liquid level sensing system for aircraft beverage brewing: The electro-optic liquid level sensing system detects a level of liquid in a container having an upper opening, such as for a server container of a beverage maker for a transport system, such as for aircraft, trains, trucks, buses and the like. A support housing mates with the upper opening... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20080011078 - Water vapor monitoring apparatus: The invention relates to an apparatus for monitoring the water vapor in a freeze-drying process of, for example, pharmaceutical products.... Agent: Hoffmann-la Roche Inc. Patent Law Department

20080011079 - Device for measuring the density of particles by flotation: The present invention relates to the investigation of particle characteristics, particularly to a device for measuring the apparent density distribution of a set of particles composed of several subsets of particles with different apparent densities and able to implement a flotation process to measure this distribution and comprising a flotation,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080011080 - Microelectromechanical inertial sensor, in particular for free-fall detection applications: An inertial sensor provided with a detection structure sensitive to a first, a second and a third component of acceleration along respective directions of detection, and generating respective electrical quantities as a function of said components of acceleration. The detection structure supplies at output a resultant electrical quantity obtained as... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080011082 - Highly sensitive accelerometer: Accelerometers for determining acceleration and methods of fabricating an accelerometer are disclosed. In one embodiment, the accelerometer includes a frame, a mass movably suspended on the frame, a fixed element having a rounded surface that does not move with respect to the frame, a movable element having a rounded surface... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080011086 - System for diagnosing and monitoring structural health conditions: Systems for diagnosing/monitoring structural health conditions of objects. The system, which monitors structural health conditions by use of a plurality of patch sensors attached to an object, includes at least one bridge box. Each of the patch sensors is capable of at least one of generating a wave upon receipt... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080011088 - Capacitative pressure sensor with ceramic membrane: A pressure sensor for sensing a fluid pressure in harsh environments such as the air pressure in a tire formed on a wafer substrate. Associated circuitry deposited in CMOS layers on the wafer substrate has a conductive layer at least partially overlying the associated circuitry, the conductive layer forming a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080011089 - Piezoelectric pressure sensor: The invention relates to a piezoelectric pressure sensor comprising piezoelectric measuring elements located in a housing, which are pre-stressed between the housing base and a membrane provided at the pressured side of the housing. According to the invention the piezoelectric measuring elements are placed on the outside of a pre-stressing... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20080011091 - Method for measuring loading and temperature in structures and materials by measuring changes in natural frequencies: “Resonance Force Sensor” has broad—and in some cases revolutionary—applications throughout aerospace, maritime, transportation, and industrial force sensing as a low cost, embedded, robust, self-calibrating strain-pressure sensor. Applications include but are not limited to structural load measurement, structural health monitoring, fluid and gas line pressure measurement, batch process manufacturing, and other... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080011092 - System and method for determining tire force: A system and method for determining the magnitude of a force acting on a tire are disclosed. Further, a sensor and a tire suitable for use in the system and method are also disclosed. The system comprises: a tire strain sensor mounted on the tire, for detecting a tire strain... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080011093 - Anti-entrapment system: An anti-entrapment system for preventing objects from being entrapped by a translating device includes a capacitance sensor positioned adjacent to the translating device and a controller. The sensor has first and second conductors separated by a separation distance and a compressible dielectric element interposed between the conductors. The conductors have... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080011096 - Electrical determination of the connection quality of a bonded wafer connection: The invention relates to a method and arrangement for carrying out the nondestructive determination of the connection quality of bonded wafers (1, 8) in order to verify the connection strength. The fact that an unbonded region (9) forms around a raised or recessed structure (3) on at least one of... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20080011097 - Tensile test method: A tensile test fixture and a tensile test method are provided. The tensile test fixture suits to perform a tensile test for a specimen. The tensile test fixture includes a base, a pull bar and a forcing member. The pull bar includes a limiting member, a specimen-fixing member and a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080011100 - In-flow determination of left and right eigenvectors in a coriolis flowmeter: A method and apparatus is disclosed that enables the periodic calculation of the relative phase of the left eigenvector for a vibrating conduit. During normal operation, two drivers are used in tandem to excite the main bending mode of the conduit (202). Periodically, first one (204), then the second (206),... Agent: The Ollila Law Group LLC

20080011101 - Process for operating a coriolis mass flow rate measurement device: A process for operating a Coriolis mass flow rate measurement device, with at least one measurement tube (10) through which a medium flows and which is subjected to vibration excitation that leads to resulting vibrations of the measurement tube (10), a first indicator quantity being used for detection of a... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20080011099 - Method for signal processing of measurement signals of a vortex flow transducer: A method for signal processing of measurement signals of a vortex flow transducer for measuring flow of a medium through a measuring tube. The method is characterized by low needs as regards computing power and memory space. The transducer includes a bluff body arranged in the measuring tube and a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080011103 - Method for determining a torque: A method for the determination of a torque which is transmitted along a torque transmission path which extends at least along a shaft of a motor vehicle. A rotary position signal is produced by means of a first speed of rotation sensor at a first section of the transmission path... Agent: Harness Dickey And Pierce PLC

20080011104 - Fabrication of a magnetoelastic torque sensor: A method of fabricating a magnetoelastic torque sensor includes plating a magnetoelastic material to a magnetically inert substrate, and its endowment with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy through the creation within the transducer element of stress anisotropy. The plating of magnetostrictive material to the magnetically inert substrate provides a less expensive torque... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080011106 - Sample analyzer and sample analyzing method: The present invention is to present a sample analyzer which is capable of preventing the size of the overall apparatus from being increased and the control of the apparatus from becoming more complex. The sample analyzer comprises: a first holding section; a second holding section, a dispenser for dispensing a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080011107 - Laboratory spatula: Laboratory spatula having stalk regions with a hollow first end and a hollow second end and at manipulating regions may be used for collecting, transporting or storing a material. A manipulating region may be configured as a shovel region, a scoop region, a whisk region, a punch region, a sieve... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080011108 - Coupling configuration, in particular, a press fit cell having a capillary envelope fastener: A coupling configuration (1; 30) comprising a coupling element (3) and a supply capillary (2), wherein the coupling element (3) has a funnel-shaped section (5) which clamps an end (6) of the supply capillary (2), is characterized in that an envelope capillary (10) is provided into which the supply capillary... Agent: Kohler Schmid Moebus

20080011111 - Method and apparatus for screening combinatorial libraries for semiconducting properties: This invention discloses methods, materials, and devices for making and screening combinatorial libraries to identify semi-conducting and thermoelectric materials. The disclosed method includes preparing a combinatorial library of materials, and identifying library members that are semiconductors. The method may include determining a thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT, for each member... Agent: Symyx Technologies Inc Legal Department

20080011112 - Method for optimizing the distribution of sensor resources: The invention discloses a method for optimizing the distribution of the resources of a scanning sensor over a number of areas, where each area can have demands for sensor resources. Said demands are expressed as a dwell time and a revisit time, and the method comprises assigning to each of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080006076 - Method and device for calibration sensors: A method and device are disclosed for calibrating sensors, which sensors are arranged on semiconductor chips and are e.g. to be used for detecting a substance in a fluid. The sensors are calibrated while they are still assembled on a semiconductor wafer by exposing the wafer to a calibration fluid... Agent: Richard F. Jaworski Cooper & Dunham LLP

20080006077 - Near real-time air monitor having external injector and pressure based flow control: A pressure based flow control system for an air monitor comprises a chromatograph coupled to a thermal desorption unit in a spatially fixed relationship, an automatic liquid sampler coupled to the chromatograph, a vacuum source, a variable flow module having a pneumatic control module and a mass flow controller, wherein... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080006078 - Gas sensor with nanowires of zinc oxide or indium/zinc mixed oxides and method of detecting nox gas: A gas sensor is disclosed, which includes two separate metal electrodes on a surface of a substrate and a semiconductor thin film deposited on the surface of the substrate and connecting the two metal electrodes. The semiconductor thin film contains zinc oxide or a mixed oxide of zinc and indium,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080006079 - Pressurized oxygen for evaluation of molding compound stability in semiconductor packaging: A test environment and an associated method of testing and analyzing a semiconductor package material containing a molding compound, for stability in a sustained oxygen environment. Test samples are exposed to a pressurized gas containing oxygen, under elevated temperature below the glass transition temperature of the molding compound. Control samples... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080006080 - Leak detector with a sniffer probe: In a leak detector with a sniffer probe, the invention provides that the sniffer tube (12), which is provided in the form of a throttling capillary line and which leads from the sniffer probe (10) to a vacuum chamber (13), has an inner cross-sectional area that varies in the longitudinal... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20080006081 - Method for measuring of particles generated from medical devices or instruments utilized during simulated clinical applications: An apparatus for measuring particles generated from a medical device includes a platform configured for retaining at least one medical device and at least one simulated body lumen tubing. The platform includes: a medical device receptacle dimensioned to retain a medical device; a pretest receptacle dimensioned to retain pretest tubing;... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080006083 - Apparatus and method of transporting and loading probe devices of a metrology instrument: The preferred embodiments are directed to a probe cassette for a scanning probe microscope that includes a base having at least one probe storage receptacle, a lid mountable on the base with the probe storage receptacle at least substantially covering the at least one receptacle, and a probe retainer that... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080006084 - Method for detecting a jammed charge movement flap of an internal combustion engine: A method for detecting a jammed charge movement flap of an internal combustion engine, a volumetric air flow of the internal combustion engine being ascertained as a measured volumetric air flow and as a modeled volumetric air flow. In the event of a deviation of the measured volumetric air flow... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080006090 - Method for inspection of metal tubular goods: A method for inspection of tubular goods includes using ultrasonic detection means to obtain wall thickness measurement of discrete sections of a tubular good and recording each measurement in association with both the longitudinal and circumferential position at which each measurement was obtained. Accordingly each measurement of wall thickness represents... Agent: Lemoine & Associates L.L.C.

20080006092 - Stress isolated pressure sensing die: The invention relates to a pressure sensing die to be mounted on a base, comprising: a sensing structure comprising: a diaphragm structure with a deflectable sensing diaphragm whose deflection is representative of the pressure and sensing elements for detecting the deflection of the sensing diaphragm, a pedestal supporting the diaphragm... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080006093 - Pressure sensor and manufacturing method therefor: A pressure sensor (e.g., a condenser microphone) includes a plate having a fixed electrode, a diaphragm having a moving electrode positioned opposite to the fixed electrode, and a support, wherein the diaphragm is subjected to displacement due to pressure variations applied thereto, and the support has a first interior wall... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080006095 - Flow measuring apparatus: A flow measuring apparatus of an embodiment is provided than comprises a cylinder and a piston movable in the cylinder between first and second positions. The piston divides the cylinder's interior area into first and second portions. A biasing member urges the piston toward the first position. A first fluid... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080006096 - Method of testing a surgical system: A method of testing a surgical system that takes advantage of the fact that in a balanced irrigation/aspiration system (inflow≧outflow) the duration of the aspiration pressure recovery to the irrigation fluid source pressure immediately following pump stop is independent of pump run time. This method provides a more reliable way... Agent: Alcon

20080006099 - Temperature controller for small fluid samples with different heat capacities: A system for controlling the temperature of fluidic samples includes a device having a first outer surface and a second outer surface which are parallel to one another. The interior of the device contains two or more channels suitable for accommodating samples. The channels lay on a common plane that... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080006102 - Systems and methods for determining inconsistency characteristics of a composite structure.: Systems and methods for determining an inconsistency characteristic of a composite structure, such as inconsistency density-per-unit area. In one implementation, a method is disclosed for determining an inconsistency characteristic of a composite structure. The method involves determining a first distance from a first reference point of the composite structure to... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080006103 - Contact for use in testing integrated circuits: A contact for use in a contact set assembly. The contact spans a space which separates a lead of an integrated circuit to be tested and a pad of a load board interfacing with the tester. The contact construction provides electrical communication between integrated circuit lead and the load board... Agent: Nawrocki, Rooney & Sivertson Suite 401, Broadway Place East