Thermal measuring and testing inventions

20090279581 - Temperature sensor and extensometer for electrical power cables: A thermometer and extensometer for cables and conductors is described. The travel time of one or more acoustic signals along a conductor is used to determine the temperature along the conductor and the length of the conductor. The acoustic frequency is selected to minimize temporal dispersion of the propagating acoustic... Agent: Fieldmetries, Inc.

20090279582 - Temperature sensor and extensometer for electrical power cables: A thermometer and extensometer for cables and conductors is described. The travel time of one or more acoustic signals along a conductor is used to determine the temperature along the conductor and the length of the conductor. The acoustic frequency is selected to minimize temporal dispersion of the propagating acoustic... Agent: Fieldmetries, Inc.

20090279583 - Fiber optic sensor for use on sub-sea pipelines: A fiber optic sensor assembly for use on a sub-sea pipeline. The fiber optic sensor assembly is coupled to remotely located equipment by fiber optic cable(s) which extend outside of the pipeline. The fiber optic sensor assembly is affixed to a mounting point on the pipeline. The mounting point is... Agent: Schlumberger Reservoir Completions

20090279584 - Temperature sensing circuit for low voltage operation: The present invention discloses a temperature sensing circuit which is adaptive toward low voltage IC environment, it mainly comprises: a temperature sensing unit, a temperature threshold control unit and a transconductance amplifier. The temperature sensing unit includes a bipolar transistor and PMOS transistors, and senses temperature via detecting voltage. The... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090279585 - Temperature sensor: A temperature sensor including: a temperature sensing element (102) having a temperature sensing unit (103) and a pair of device electrode wires (104); a sheath member (106) having a sheath wire (108) connected at a junction (110) to at least one of the device electrode wires and a sheath outer... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090279586 - Temperature sensor: A temperature sensor including a temperature sensing element (102) having a temperature sensing unit (103) and a pair of device electrode wires (104) extending from the temperature sensing unit; a sheath member (106) including a sheath wire (108) connected at a junction (110) to one of the device electrode wires... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090274191 - Single beam optical apparatus and method: A single-beam optical apparatus suitable for measuring thermal diffusivity of a sample having a laser source generating a focused laser beam capable of heating a portion of the sample so as to create a thermal bump via thermal dilation, the thermal bump reflecting a reflected portion of the focused laser... Agent: Stikeman Elliott LLP

20090274192 - Replaceable electronic clinical thermometer: A replaceable electronic clinical thermometer includes a control portion and a plurality of sensor portions. The control portion and sensor portions are installed with respective connecting units. The control portion has a first connecting unit, a control portion, a display unit and a circuit unit. The circuit unit is electrically... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20090262776 - Method and apparatus for calibrating a thermistor: The presently described embodiments are directed to a calibration method and system for thin film thermistors that are locally heated with integrated thin film heaters. Initially, print head temperature is either measured or referenced. Then, transient thermistor resistances are measured and used to determine the thermistor resistance at a higher... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20090262777 - Heat flux measurement device for estimating fouling thickness: A heat flux measurement device includes at least two thermocouples disposed within a front portion of the device at different axial distances from a front wall of the device. A correlation between the measured heat fluxes from the device over a period of time is used to estimate a fouling... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090262778 - Electronic device: An electronic device according to the present invention includes an infrared ray absorbing section 12, which comes to have an increased temperature when irradiated with an incident infrared ray, and at least one heat sensing section 13, of which a physical property varies with the variation in temperature that has... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090262779 - Multi-core fiber grating sensor: A twin core fiber for sensor applications is developed. It is particularly useful in de-coupling the strain and temperature and thus obtaining both measurement parameters at the same time and location. It is also particularly useful for measuring the temperature in a high humidity environment. The twin core fiber has... Agent: Ofs Fltel, LLC (formerly Furukawa Electric North America, Inc.)

20090262780 - Device for measuring and analyzing melt in metallurgical vessels: A device for measuring temperature and analyzing melt in metallurgical vessels with a channel pipe KN arranged on a side wall of a vessel KV, extending with a lower end thereof into this wall, and ending with an upper open end thereof above the vessel KV for taking a melt... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20090262781 - Multipoint digital temperature acquisition system: A digitally based system is designed to sense temperatures at a plurality of places and transmit temperature data along a hard-wire cable or distributed (wireless) network to an integrated data collection and control appliance. The system can perform single “spot” measurements or arrange multiple readings in a database for later... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20090262782 - Solar-powered temperature measuring apparatus: A solar-powered temperature measuring apparatus includes: a case, at least one part of a surface thereof including a solar panel used for converting visible light to electric energy; a first connection portion, positioned in the case; and a temperature measurer, accepted in the case, including: a main body; a second... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090262783 - Throttling memory in a computer system: Systems and methods of managing memory devices provide for reduced power consumption and better thermal management through enhanced memory throttling. In one embodiment a memory unit includes a memory device and a temperature measurement module coupled to the memory device. The temperature measurement device measures the internal temperature of the... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP