Thermal measuring and testing inventions 06/09

20090161720 - Passive thermal image glass breakage detector: A system and method for detecting glass breakage using thermal imaging is provided. The system includes an infrared image detector for acquiring an infrared image of a monitored area, and a signal processor for processing the acquired images to determine removal of a glass door or window based on a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090161721 - Method for testing a heat pipe and corresponding test device: The operational reliability of a heat pipe 200 provided for carrying heat dissipated by an electronic component 101 to a heat exchanger 300 is tested by using the heat pipe in the reverse direction, by providing energy in the form of heat at the exchanger 300, and by measuring the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090161722 - Automatic shutdown or throttling of a bist state machine using thermal feedback: A Built-In-Self-Test (BIST) state machine providing BIST testing operations associated with a thermal sensor device(s) located in proximity to the circuit(s) to which BIST testing operations are applied, and a design structure including the BIST state machine embodied in a machine readable medium are provided. The thermal sensor device compares... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090161723 - Performance testing apparatus for heat pipes: A performance testing apparatus for a heat pipe includes a heating set, a cooling set, and a supporting set supporting the heating set and the cooling set thereon. Position and orientation of the heating and cooling sets on the supporting set are adjustable. The heating set includes a first immovable... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090161724 - Determining the temperature of silicon at high temperatures: The temperature of an object such as a semiconductor wafer that includes silicon can be determined based on the variation of the optical absorption coefficient of silicon with temperature. Temperatures above about 850° C., can be found by measuring phenomena that are affected by the magnitude of the optical absorption... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20090161725 - Process-invariant low-quiescent temperature detection circuit: In one embodiment, an integrated circuit is provided for detecting when a temperature reaches a specified value. The circuit includes a differential circuit block having first and second transistors. A control terminal of the first transistor is coupled to a first voltage source, and a control terminal of the second... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20090161726 - Temperature detection system: A temperature detection system includes a power semiconductor device, a chip temperature detection device for detecting a temperature of the power semiconductor device, loss-related characteristic value acquiring means for acquiring a loss-related characteristic value that is a characteristic to decide a loss of the power semiconductor device, difference value calculating... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090161727 - Method and apparatus for a temperature sensor for measuring peak temperatures: A method and apparatus for an irreversible temperature sensor for measuring a peak exposure temperature. The apparatus is fabricated by printing an admixture of conductive nanoparticles on a dielectric substrate to form a film. The film has an electrical resistance that is inversely proportional to the exposure temperature. The electrical... Agent: Leveque Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090154519 - Thermometer calibration: A method for calibrating a thermometer is provided. The method includes deriving values of at least two different reference calibration coefficients of a reference calibration equation. The reference calibration equation relates temperature of a reference temperature sensor to at least two different calibration coefficients and a measured characteristic of the... Agent: Tyco Healthcare - Edward S. Jarmolowicz

20090154520 - Method and device for determining specific heat capacity: The specific heat capacity (cp) of a medium is determined using a calorimeter with a reactor (1), a stirrer (3), a first thermostat for providing an inner heat balance, a second thermostat, means for providing an outer heat balance and a central control unit (35). The method uses the steps... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20090154521 - Non-contact method and apparatus for hardness case depth monitoring: There is provided a method and apparatus to monitor hardness using laser infrared photothermal radiometry. The emphasis is on the ability of this invention to monitor in a non-contact and non-destructive manner the hardness case depth of industrially heat treated steels. The present invention provides a method and apparatus comprising... Agent: Andreas Mandelis

20090154522 - Temperature sensor and method for measuring temperature: The invention provides a total gas temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of gas in a gas flow. A gas temperature sensor in accordance with the invention comprises a measurement chamber having a gas inlet and a gas outlet; an outlet valve located at the gas outlet, operable to seal... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090154523 - Body-temperature measuring device and body-temperature measuring system having the device: A body-temperature measuring device is provided. The device includes: a pad which is attachable to and detachable from a human body; a battery which is provided to the pad and includes a pair of battery terminals for supplying power; and a temperature sensing block which is attached to and detached... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090154524 - Integrated system for hydro-thermo-sanitary apparatuses: An integrated system for hydro-thermo-sanitary apparatuses comprising electric current generating means, a control board, water temperature sensors and LEDs or strips of LEDs arranged near the water outlet section for indicating the dispensed water temperature according to the colour with which the light of the LEDs is emitted. An acoustic-vocal... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20090154525 - Apparatus and method for measuring characteristic and chip temperature of led: An apparatus for measuring a characteristic and a chip temperature of an LED includes a thermal conductive component. An LED chip is disposed on the thermal conductive component. A temperature control unit is connected to the thermal conductive component for providing a temperature to the thermal conductive component, and therefore... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090147820 - Avoiding air flow penetration in temperature measurement: In one example embodiment, a board for measuring device temperatures comprises a base and one or more fingers extending from the base. The base and the one or more fingers comprise a flexible material. One or more first temperature sensors are disposed on the one or more fingers. One or... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090147819 - Calibration of temperature control system for semiconductor processing chamber: Methods and systems for calibrating a temperature control system in a vapor deposition chamber. A temperature sensor senses temperature within a semiconductor processing chamber and generates an output signal. A temperature control system controls a chamber temperature by controlling a heating apparatus based on the output signal. A method includes... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP

20090147821 - Temperature management: A method and device are described for controlling and/or attenuating aiming laser beam brightness in a hand held radiometer. The beam from the laser is directed at a target measurement surface and a transversely movable element member is interposed between the laser and the target to change the beam brightness... Agent: William Anthony Drucker

20090147822 - Temperature stabilized optical cell: A use composition monitor determines the concentration of peracid and/or peroxide in a use composition using a kinetic assay procedure. A sample mixture containing a sample of the use composition, a diluent and at least one reagent is prepared and analyzed using, for example, an optical detector. A temperature stabilized... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20090147823 - Detachable electronic pacifier thermometer: An electronic pacifier thermometer is provided. The electronic pacifier thermometer is composed of a pacifier device and a measurement device. The pacifier device has a built-in temperature sensing element (e.g., a temperature sensor) and a connector element. The measurement device contains a display, a circuit board mainly which is controlled... Agent: Leong C Lei

20090147824 - Wireless remote passive temperature sensor for monitoring food: A passive wireless temperature sensor with a loop antenna is placed in a remote environment for exposure to its changing temperature conditions. The sensor includes a coil of wire wrapped around a cylinder to form an air-core inductor. The cylinder contains a small amount of eutectic material similar to a... Agent: Bill Schafer

20090147825 - Electronic thermometer sensor tip: A sensor tip for use in an electronic thermometer is disclosed herein. An electronic thermometer includes a metal cap having a cavity and a temperature transducer. The temperature transducer is affixed within the cavity by solder. Wires connecting the temperature transducer to a circuit of the electronic thermometer form a... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20090147826 - Temperature sensor: A temperature sensor includes: a temperature-sensing element comprising a temperature-sensing portion and an element electrode wire connected to the temperature-sensing portion; a sheath member comprising a sheath tube and a sheath core wire extending from the sheath tube, the sheath core wire being joined to the element electrode wire to... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090141767 - Integrated electronic sensor: A single chip wireless sensor (1) comprises a microcontroller (2) connected to a transmit/receive interface (3), which is coupled to a wireless antenna (4) by an L-C matching circuit. The sensor (1) senses gas or humidity and temperature. The device (1) is an integrated chip manufactured in a single process... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090141768 - Accurate gas temperature estimation at transient conditions based on temperature sensor readings: A method for accurate estimation of a gas temperature at transient conditions includes measuring temperature sensor readings in a gas flow and estimating the gas temperature by equating the specific heat properties of the temperature sensor to the sum of conductive heat, convective heat, and radiative heat acting upon the... Agent: Cichosz & Cichosz, PLLC

20090141769 - Temperature maintenance system for a sensor: A sensing system is provided having a bypass configured to divert fluid from a main passageway. In addition, the sensing system has a fluid sensor situated within the bypass and configured to sense a concentration of an element contained within the fluid. The sensing system also has a first heater... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090141770 - Time domain digital temperature sensing system and method thereof: A digital temperature sensing system and method for converting a test temperature into a digital output signal are disclosed. The system comprises a temperature-to-time circuit for generating a thermally sensitive time signal of which a width varies with the test temperature; an adjustable time reference circuit for generating a time... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090141771 - Temperature-sensing and transmitting assemblies, programmable temperature sensor units, and methods of making and using them: In an exemplary embodiment, a temperature sensor and a 4-20 mA transmitter on a single flexible circuit subassembly with a separate housing suitable for use in industrial control or HVAC applications. In a preferred embodiment, a narrow flex circuit substrate includes a silicon diode-based surface-mount sensor at a sensor end,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090141772 - Thermocouple head unit: A mounting terminal head of a thermocouple head unit having a metal casing for an end of a thermocouple wire, and thermocouple signal terminals 4 for connection to a thermocouple wire. The thermocouple head unit includes an insulating support member 8 extending around the outside of the thermocouple head unit... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090141773 - Adhesive thermometer: This invention is to provide an adhesive thermometer, comprising: a sense unit, a display unit and an attachment unit, where the display unit and the sense unit are combined into a rectangular parallelepiped, and the display unit is located at the top while the sense unit at the bottom. The... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC