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公开(公告)号:US10302627B2
公开(公告)日:2019-05-28
申请号:US15202367
申请日:2016-07-05
Applicant: MSA TECHNOLOGY, LLC
Inventor: Towner Bennett Scheffler , Gregory L. Martin , Michael Alvin Brown
IPC: G01N33/497 , G01N33/00 , G01N27/30 , G01N27/40 , G01N27/404 , G01N27/407
Abstract: A method of testing a system, which has at least one electrochemical sensor for detecting an analyte gas within a housing of the system, and the housing has an inlet, includes exhaling in the vicinity of the inlet of the housing of the system and measuring a response to exhaled breath to test one or more transport paths of the system. Measuring the response to exhaled breath may, for example, include measuring the response of a sensor within the housing of the system that is responsive to the presence of exhaled breath. The sensor responsive to the presence of exhaled breath may, for example, include an electrochemically active electrode responsive to a gas within exhaled breath. The electrochemically active electrode may, for example, be responsive to carbon dioxide or to oxygen.
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公开(公告)号:US10234412B2
公开(公告)日:2019-03-19
申请号:US15343956
申请日:2016-11-04
Applicant: MSA TECHNOLOGY, LLC
Inventor: Meghan E. Swanson , Michael Alvin Brown
IPC: G01N27/16 , G01N31/10 , G01N31/12 , G01N27/407 , F01N11/00 , G01N25/20 , G01M15/10 , G01N25/48 , G01N27/12
Abstract: A combustible gas sensor includes a first sensing element, which includes a catalyst and a heating element in operative connection with the catalyst to heat the catalyst above a temperature to combust gas analytes of interest, and electronic circuitry in operative connection with the heating element of the first sensing element to periodically cycle the first sensing element between a temperature above the temperature to combust the analytes of interest and a temperature at which the catalyst is substantially inactive to catalyze oxidative combustion of the analytes of interest. The electronic circuitry is adapted to determine a species of at least one of the gas analytes of interest from a first output of the combustible gas sensor during an ON time within a cycle duration. The electronic circuitry is further adapted to determine a concentration of the species of gas from a second output of the combustible gas sensor.
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公开(公告)号:US10166415B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-01
申请号:US14144310
申请日:2013-12-30
Applicant: MSA TECHNOLOGY, LLC
Inventor: Marco Tekelenburg , David J. Losos , Bryan J. Peoples
Abstract: A system includes a carrier system adapted to be worn by a user and to support at least one of a plurality of differently sized tanks of breathing gas, a bracket connector attached to the carrier system, and a plurality of brackets. The carrier system may, for example, be part of a breathing apparatus such as a self-contained breathing apparatus. Each of the plurality of brackets has a different configuration. Each of the plurality of brackets is attachable to an associated one of the plurality of differently sized tanks and to the bracket connector. For each one of the plurality of brackets, an assembly that includes the one of the plurality of brackets and the associated one of the plurality of differently sized tanks, when attached to the bracket connector, positions the associated one of the plurality of differently sized tanks in a predetermined manner relative to the carrier system.
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公开(公告)号:US20180178046A1
公开(公告)日:2018-06-28
申请号:US15392369
申请日:2016-12-28
Applicant: MSA Technology, LLC
Inventor: Benjamin T. Sepe , Karl Jones
Abstract: An external energy absorber may include a hub having a line associated therewith, the line including a first end directly or indirectly attached to the hub and a second end opposite the first end attached to a user, an energy absorbing arrangement directly or indirectly attached to the hub, the energy absorbing arrangement comprising an outer ring directly or indirectly attached to the hub, an inner ring directly or indirectly attached to a housing, and at least one energy absorbing member positioned between the outer ring and the inner ring, wherein the at least one energy absorbing member is configured to generate friction between the outer ring and the inner ring upon rotation of the hub, and the housing configured to hold the hub and energy absorbing arrangement.
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公开(公告)号:US20180128763A1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-10
申请号:US15343956
申请日:2016-11-04
Applicant: MSA TECHNOLOGY, LLC
Inventor: Meghan E. Swanson , Michael Alvin Brown
CPC classification number: G01N27/16 , F01N11/00 , G01M15/102 , G01N25/4873 , G01N27/124 , G01N27/407 , G01N31/10 , G01N31/12
Abstract: A combustible gas sensor includes a first sensing element, which includes a catalyst and a heating element in operative connection with the catalyst to heat the catalyst above a temperature to combust gas analytes of interest, and electronic circuitry in operative connection with the heating element of the first sensing element to periodically cycle the first sensing element between a temperature above the temperature to combust the analytes of interest and a temperature at which the catalyst is substantially inactive to catalyze oxidative combustion of the analytes of interest. The electronic circuitry is adapted to determine a species of at least one of the gas analytes of interest from a first output of the combustible gas sensor during an ON time within a cycle duration. The electronic circuitry is further adapted to determine a concentration of the species of gas from a second output of the combustible gas sensor.
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公开(公告)号:US20180080894A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-22
申请号:US15685432
申请日:2017-08-24
Applicant: MSA TECHNOLOGY, LLC
Inventor: Brian Keith Davis , Michael Alvin Brown , Mark Flori Zanella, SR.
IPC: G01N27/327 , G01N27/407
CPC classification number: G01N27/3271 , G01N27/3274 , G01N27/4045 , G01N27/4078
Abstract: An electrochemical gas sensor includes a sensor housing having a plurality of inlet passages, wherein each of the plurality of inlet passages has a cross-sectional area of no greater than 11,309 μm2. The electrochemical gas sensor further includes a working electrode within the housing which is responsive to an analyte gas and an electrolyte within the sensor housing in ionic contact with the working electrode.
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公开(公告)号:US20180017589A1
公开(公告)日:2018-01-18
申请号:US15715610
申请日:2017-09-26
Applicant: MSA TECHNOLOGY, LLC
Inventor: Towner Bennett Scheffler , Michael Alvin Brown , Andrew E. Nalepa , Brian Keith Davis
IPC: G01N35/00 , G01N33/497 , G01N33/00
CPC classification number: G01N35/00693 , G01N33/007 , G01N33/497
Abstract: A method of operating a sensor system including at least one sensor for detecting an analyte gas and a control system includes electronically interrogating the sensor to determine the operational status thereof and upon determining that the operational status is non-conforming based upon one or more predetermined thresholds, the control system initiating an automated calibration of the sensor with the analyte gas or a simulant gas.
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公开(公告)号:US20170296094A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-19
申请号:US15487726
申请日:2017-04-14
Applicant: MSA TECHNOLOGY, LLC
Inventor: HENRY FONZI, III , Marco Tekelenburg , Clinton Fleming , Kaustubh Misra
CPC classification number: A61B5/0816 , A61B5/0002 , A61B5/091 , A61B5/11 , A61B5/4836 , A61B5/486 , A61B5/6803 , A61B5/72 , A61B5/746 , A61B2560/0242 , A62B9/006 , A62B9/02 , A62B18/02 , A62B18/08 , G08B21/02 , G08B21/0461
Abstract: A breathing system includes a facepiece and a regulator to deliver breathing gas to the facepiece. The regulator includes a sensor system including at least one sensor responsive to respiration of a user. The breathing system further includes a processor system in operative connection with the at least one sensor, a memory system in operative connection with the processor system and at least one algorithm stored in the memory system and executable by the processor system. The at least one algorithm is adapted, configured or programmed to determine at least one of a rate of respiration and a respiration volume from data from the at least one sensor. The algorithm is further adapted, configured or programmed to relate at least one of the rate of respiration and the respiration volume to a physiological state of the user.
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公开(公告)号:US09755416B2
公开(公告)日:2017-09-05
申请号:US14626084
申请日:2015-02-19
Applicant: MSA Technology, LLC
Inventor: Stephen M. Kancel
Abstract: An improved intrinsic safety barrier arrangement for an electrical device or component. A method of intrinsic safety barrier operation for an electrical device or component is also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US20170227499A1
公开(公告)日:2017-08-10
申请号:US15394566
申请日:2016-12-29
Applicant: MSA TECHNOLOGY, LLC
Inventor: JERIN MILLER , RYAN ALAN SHERRY , ROBERT KEVIN SEXTON , ROBERT ERIC UBER
Abstract: A method of detecting at least a partial blockage in a porous member separating an inner chamber of a device having a gas sensor responsive to an analyte positioned within the inner chamber and an ambient environment includes emitting pressure waves within the inner chamber and measuring a change in phase of a response via a sensor responsive to pressure waves.
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