Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Temperature sensor
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Application No.: US15574448Application Date: 2016-05-21
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Publication No.: US10527502B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: Sven Poeggel , Dinesh Babu Duraibabu , Gabriel Leen , Gerard Dooly , Elfed Lewis
- Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK
- Applicant Address: IE Limerick
- Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK
- Current Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK
- Current Assignee Address: IE Limerick
- Agency: Winstead PC
- Priority: EP15168622 20150521; EP15168623 20150521
- International Application: PCT/EP2016/061511 WO 20160521
- International Announcement: WO2016/185050 WO 20161124
- Main IPC: G01K11/32
- IPC: G01K11/32 ; G01K5/32 ; G01K5/58

Abstract:
A temperature sensor (1) has a pressure sensor (10), the distal end of which is inserted in a sealed chamber (2) filled with a liquid. The pressure sensor has a light guide (4), a cavity (14) at a distal end of the light guide, a diaphragm (11) forming a wall of the cavity and being configured to deflect with applied pressure, and a detector to detect changes in light reflection due to deflection of the diaphragm. The liquid (3) which changes volume in response to temperature changes and this volume change is sufficient to change the pressure applied on the diaphragm (11), and the a interrogation system processes pressure data and/or light reflection data to generate an output indicating temperature of the fluid in the chamber.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180136055A1 A TEMPERATURE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2018-05-17
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