摘要:
An easily calibrated analytical instrument for sensing a target analyte and a method for sensing said gas. The instrument includes an electrochemical sensor and a switch. The electrochemical sensor includes a sensing electrode and a counter electrode. When the switch is closed, it is effective for creating a short circuit between the sensing and counter electrodes. A zero calibration reading can be taken when the switch is closed.
摘要:
A non-destructive method for testing sealed packages for leakage, particularly packages having a gas-permeable portion and a non-gas-permeable portion, by applying a temporary barrier over the gas-permeable portion, wherein the temporary barrier has two apertures, and enclosing the package in a testing chamber having a carrier gas flowing through it to a detector, and passing a tracer gas through the package interior via the two apertures in the temporary barrier.
摘要:
An instrument and method for measuring the volume of a hermetically sealed, variable volume, pressure conforming container. The instrument includes a needle, a vacuum pump, a mass flow rate sensor and an integrator. The needle has a lumen operable for sealingly perforating a container and thereby placing the lumen of the needle in fluid communication with a retention chamber defined by the container. The vacuum pump evacuates the gaseous content from the retention chamber through the lumen defined by the needle and past a mass flow rate sensor for sensing mass flow rates pulled through the lumen and transmitting corresponding mass flow rate signals over time to the integrator. The integrator is programmed to integrate the received mass flow rate signals over time through achievement of an evacuated retention chamber to generate a total mass value, and calculate a volume from the total mass value employing the Ideal Gas Law.
摘要:
A photoluminescent oxygen probe (10) comprising a tack (20) with a layer of a pressure-sensitive adhesive (40) and an oxygen-sensitive photoluminescent element (30) on the underside of the head. The probe is effective for sensing oxygen concentration within an enclosed space by puncturing the container defining the enclosed space with the probe's shank (22) and adhering the underside of the probe's head to the container so as to sealingly surround the puncture, thereby placing the oxygen-sensitive photoluminescent dye on the underside of the probe's head into sensible communication with the enclosed space through the puncture hole.