公开(公告)号：US06794981B2

公开(公告)日：2004-09-21

申请号：US10150851

申请日：2002-05-16

申请人： Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Jay G. Schwichtenberg ,  Cleopatra Cabuz ,  Ernest Satren

发明人： Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Jay G. Schwichtenberg ,  Cleopatra Cabuz ,  Ernest Satren

IPC分类号： H01C304

CPC分类号： G01F1/6842 ,  G01F1/6845 ,  G01F5/00 ,  G01N1/2247 ,  G01N25/18 ,  G01N25/488 ,  G01N33/0014 ,  G01N2001/2285

摘要： An integratable fluid flow and property microsensor assembly is configured to be operably embedded in a microfluidic cartridge of the type used in lab-on-a-chip systems. The assembly is a robust package having a microstructure flow sensor contained within a housing in order to achieve a robust sensing device. The cartridge provides a flow path to the assembly, which directs the fluid across the flow sensor and returns the fluid to the cartridge flow path. The flow sensor monitors the controlled flow of fluid and transmits signals indicative of that flow. The assembly structure provides a robust sensor that is operable and accurate in many different applications.

摘要翻译： 可整合的流体流动和性质微传感器组件被配置为可操作地嵌入在芯片实验室系统中使用的类型的微流体盒中。 该组件是具有包含在壳体内的微结构流量传感器的鲁棒封装，以便实现鲁棒的感测装置。 墨盒提供到组件的流动路径，其引导流体穿过流量传感器并将流体返回到墨盒流动路径。 流量传感器监测流体的受控流动并传输指示该流量的信号。 组装结构提供了一个鲁棒的传感器，在许多不同的应用中可操作和准确。

公开(公告)号：US08828320B2

公开(公告)日：2014-09-09

申请号：US11615927

申请日：2006-12-22

申请人： Ron L. Bardell ,  Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Peter L. Reutiman ,  Tom M. Rezachek ,  James A. Cox ,  Bernard S. Fritz ,  Cleopatra Cabuz

发明人： Ron L. Bardell ,  Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Peter L. Reutiman ,  Tom M. Rezachek ,  James A. Cox ,  Bernard S. Fritz ,  Cleopatra Cabuz

IPC分类号： G01N33/00

CPC分类号： G01N35/085 ,  G01N15/1056 ,  G01N15/12 ,  G01N15/1459 ,  G01N15/1484 ,  G01N35/00603 ,  G01N35/00663 ,  G01N2015/0069 ,  G01N2015/0073 ,  G01N2015/008 ,  G01N2015/0084 ,  G01N2015/1062 ,  G01N2015/1486 ,  G06F19/00

摘要： A system relating to sample analyzers, and more particular, to sample analyzers that are simple to operate and have a reduced risk of providing an erroneous result to a user. In some cases, the sample analyzer may be a portable sample analyzer that includes a disposable fluidic cartridge. The operators of the analyzers need not be trained.

摘要翻译： 与样品分析仪有关的系统，更具体地说，涉及操作简单且降低向用户提供错误结果的风险的样品分析仪。 在一些情况下，样品分析仪可以是便携式样品分析仪，其包括一次性流体盒。 不需要对分析仪的操作员进行培训。

公开(公告)号：US08773946B2

公开(公告)日：2014-07-08

申请号：US13092045

申请日：2011-04-21

申请人： Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Steve Huseth

发明人： Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Steve Huseth

IPC分类号： G01S15/89

CPC分类号： G01S15/89 ,  G01C15/00 ,  G01C21/206 ,  G01S13/89

摘要： A system and method are presented for producing a model of the interior of a building. The model is capable of receiving and dynamically incorporating input from various sources including, for example, existing static map data, data such as annotations and updates provided by persons on the scene but outside the building, and real-time data from sensors located on mobile persons or assets that are dynamically moving inside the building. In some cases, the moving persons or assets inside the building may carry a unit that emits sound or electromagnetic pulses, which reflect off the immediate surroundings in a particular room or portion of the building, and sense the reflected pulses. The reflections from relatively close features may arrive at the sensor more quickly than those from relatively distant features, so that temporal analysis of the reflected pulse may provide information about features in the building as a function of their distance away from the unit. Pulses may be emitted and received at multiple locations in a room or portion of the building. The reflected pulses may be analyzed, using specific time shifts that correspond to round-trip travel times in particular directions, so that the actual locations of features may be identified. By walking from room-to-room throughout the interior of a building and performing such analysis, much or all of the interior of a building may be mapped.

摘要翻译： 提出了一种用于生产建筑物内部模型的系统和方法。 该模型能够接收并动态地并入来自各种来源的输入，包括例如现有的静态地图数据，诸如注释和数据，例如场景中的人，但在建筑物之外提供的更新，以及位于移动设备上的传感器的实时数据 在建筑物内动态移动的人员或资产。 在某些情况下，建筑物内的移动人员或资产可能会携带发出声音或电磁脉冲的单元，这些单元反射出建筑物的特定房间或部分的周围环境，并感测到反射的脉冲。 来自相对较近的特征的反射可以比来自相对远的特征的那些更快地到达传感器，使得反射脉冲的时间分析可以作为它们离开该单元的距离的函数来提供关于建筑物中的特征的信息。 脉冲可以在建筑物的房间或部分的多个位置发射和接收。 可以使用与特定方向上的往返旅行时间对应的特定时间偏移来分析反射脉冲，从而可以识别特征的实际位置。 通过从建筑物内部的房间到室内的行走，进行这种分析，可以映射建筑物的大部分或全部内部空间。

公开(公告)号：US20130323658A1

公开(公告)日：2013-12-05

申请号：US13482575

申请日：2012-05-29

申请人： Kurt E. Kraus ,  Matthew Martin ,  Donnie McClain ,  Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Ganesh Shiva Shankar

发明人： Kurt E. Kraus ,  Matthew Martin ,  Donnie McClain ,  Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Ganesh Shiva Shankar

IPC分类号： F23N5/00

CPC分类号： F23N5/16 ,  F23N5/003 ,  F23N5/08 ,  F23N5/10 ,  F23N2025/04 ,  F23N2027/22

摘要： A burner flame detection and monitoring system for a pilot burner for combustion of wastes gases and waste materials. The system includes a pilot burner assembly. A gas premix burner assembly includes a fuel gas delivery conduit, a fuel metering orifice, a fuel and air mixing device, a pilot tube and a pilot burner tip assembly. A primary sensor is in communication with the pilot burner assembly downstream of the fuel metering orifice. A secondary sensor is in communication with pilot burner assembly at or upstream of the fuel metering orifice. A processor receives input from both the primary sensor and the secondary sensor. A mechanism integrates the input from the primary sensor and the input from the secondary sensor in order to deduce the presence, absence or quality of a pilot flame.

摘要翻译： 用于燃烧废气和废料的引燃燃烧器的燃烧器火焰探测和监测系统。 该系统包括一个引燃燃烧器组件。 气体预混燃烧器组件包括燃料气体输送导管，燃料计量孔，燃料和空气混合装置，先导管和引燃燃烧器尖端组件。 主传感器与燃料计量孔口下游的引燃燃烧器组件连通。 二次传感器与燃料计量孔口处或上游的引燃燃烧器组件连通。 处理器从主传感器和次传感器接收输入。 一个机构将来自主传感器的输入和来自次级传感器的输入相结合，以推导出引燃火焰的存在，不存在或质量。

公开(公告)号：US20130218022A1

公开(公告)日：2013-08-22

申请号：US13399747

申请日：2012-02-17

申请人： Christopher Scott Larsen ,  Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Christopher Humphrey ,  Neal Muggleton

发明人： Christopher Scott Larsen ,  Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Christopher Humphrey ,  Neal Muggleton

IPC分类号： A61B5/01

CPC分类号： A61B5/01 ,  A61B5/6817

摘要： Embodiments may comprise personal protective equipment with integrated physiological monitoring. Some embodiments may relate specifically to in-ear devices (such as hearing protection and/or communication devices) having one or more physiological sensors for early monitoring for heat related illnesses. Several embodiments may incorporate a temperature sensor and a speaker into such in-ear device.

摘要翻译： 实施例可以包括具有综合生理监测的个人防护装备。 一些实施例可以具体涉及具有一个或多个生理传感器的入耳装置（例如听力保护和/或通信装置），用于早期监测与热有关的疾病。 几个实施例可以将温度传感器和扬声器并入到这样的耳内设备中。

公开(公告)号：US20120169530A1

公开(公告)日：2012-07-05

申请号：US13092045

申请日：2011-04-21

申请人： Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Steve Huseth

发明人： Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Steve Huseth

IPC分类号： G01S13/89

CPC分类号： G01S15/89 ,  G01C15/00 ,  G01C21/206 ,  G01S13/89

摘要： A system and method are presented for producing a model of the interior of a building. The model is capable of receiving and dynamically incorporating input from various sources including, for example, existing static map data, data such as annotations and updates provided by persons on the scene but outside the building, and real-time data from sensors located on mobile persons or assets that are dynamically moving inside the building. In some cases, the moving persons or assets inside the building may carry a unit that emits sound or electromagnetic pulses, which reflect off the immediate surroundings in a particular room or portion of the building, and sense the reflected pulses. The reflections from relatively close features may arrive at the sensor more quickly than those from relatively distant features, so that temporal analysis of the reflected pulse may provide information about features in the building as a function of their distance away from the unit. Pulses may be emitted and received at multiple locations in a room or portion of the building. The reflected pulses may be analyzed, using specific time shifts that correspond to round-trip travel times in particular directions, so that the actual locations of features may be identified. By walking from room-to-room throughout the interior of a building and performing such analysis, much or all of the interior of a building may be mapped.

摘要翻译： 提出了一种用于生产建筑物内部模型的系统和方法。 该模型能够接收并动态地并入来自各种来源的输入，包括例如现有的静态地图数据，诸如注释和数据，例如场景中的人，但在建筑物之外提供的更新，以及位于移动设备上的传感器的实时数据 在建筑物内动态移动的人员或资产。 在某些情况下，建筑物内的移动人员或资产可能会携带发出声音或电磁脉冲的单元，这些单元反射出建筑物的特定房间或部分的周围环境，并感测到反射的脉冲。 来自相对较近的特征的反射可以比来自相对远的特征的那些更快地到达传感器，使得反射脉冲的时间分析可以作为它们离开该单元的距离的函数来提供关于建筑物中的特征的信息。 脉冲可以在建筑物的房间或部分的多个位置发射和接收。 可以使用与特定方向上的往返旅行时间对应的特定时间偏移来分析反射脉冲，从而可以识别特征的实际位置。 通过从建筑物内部的房间到室内的行走，进行这种分析，可以映射建筑物的大部分或全部内部空间。

公开(公告)号：US08182767B2

公开(公告)日：2012-05-22

申请号：US11306399

申请日：2005-12-27

申请人： Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Tom Rezachek ,  Ron L. Bardell

发明人： Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Tom Rezachek ,  Ron L. Bardell

IPC分类号： A61B5/00

CPC分类号： G01N35/1079 ,  B01L3/502715 ,  B01L3/502746 ,  B01L9/527 ,  B01L2200/027 ,  B01L2200/143 ,  B01L2300/0627 ,  B01L2300/0672 ,  B01L2300/0816 ,  B01L2400/0481 ,  B01L2400/0487 ,  G01N35/1095 ,  G01N2035/00158

摘要： Instrument-cartridge interfaces for fluidic analyzers that have an instrument and a removable cartridge are disclosed. For example, and in one illustrative embodiment, the instrument may include a needle that is adapted to penetrate a septum on a removable cartridge. In another illustrative embodiment, the instrument may include a plunger that is adapted to deform a deformable membrane on a removable cartridge. In yet another illustrative embodiment, the instrument may include a nozzle that is adapted to mate and seal with a flow channel on a removable cartridge. Techniques for detecting the flow rate in a flow channel on a removable cartridge, as well as the position of fluid in a flow channel of a removable cartridge, are also disclosed.

摘要翻译： 公开了具有仪器和可移除盒的流体分析仪的盒式磁带接口。 例如，在一个说明性实施例中，仪器可以包括适于穿透可移除盒的隔膜的针。 在另一说明性实施例中，仪器可以包括适于使可移除盒上的可变形膜变形的柱塞。 在另一个说明性实施例中，仪器可以包括适于与可移除盒上的流动通道配合和密封的喷嘴。 还公开了用于检测可移除盒上的流动通道中的流速以及可移除盒的流动通道中的流体位置的技术。

公开(公告)号：US07978329B2

公开(公告)日：2011-07-12

申请号：US10304773

申请日：2002-11-26

申请人： Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Cleopatra Cabuz ,  Bernard S. Fritz

发明人： Aravind Padmanabhan ,  Cleopatra Cabuz ,  Bernard S. Fritz

IPC分类号： G01N21/00

CPC分类号： G01N15/147 ,  A61B5/150022 ,  A61B5/150213 ,  A61B5/150221 ,  A61B5/150343 ,  A61B5/150351 ,  A61B5/157 ,  A61B5/417 ,  B01L3/5027 ,  G01N15/1404 ,  G01N15/1484 ,  G01N2015/0088 ,  G01N2015/1075 ,  G01N2015/1486 ,  G01N2035/00891

摘要： An apparatus having scattering and multi-color fluorescence detecting, analyzing and identification capabilities of blood or other fluids of interest. The sample to be tested may be entered in a disposable microfluidic cartridge which in turn is insertable in a hand-holdable or implantable miniaturized and portable cytometer instrument. This cytometer has significant application in biological warfare agent detection, hematology and other clinical and research fields.

摘要翻译： 一种具有散射和多色荧光检测，分析和识别血液或其他感兴趣液体的能力的装置。 要测试的样品可以输入一次性微流控盒中，该滤芯又可插入手持式或可植入式的小型化便携式血细胞仪器中。 该细胞仪在生物战剂检测，血液学等临床和研究领域具有重要应用。

公开(公告)号：US07727776B2

公开(公告)日：2010-06-01

申请号：US11552383

申请日：2006-10-24

申请人： Jicang Zhou ,  Yuandong Gu ,  Allen A. Cox ,  Aravind Padmanabhan

发明人： Jicang Zhou ,  Yuandong Gu ,  Allen A. Cox ,  Aravind Padmanabhan

IPC分类号： G01N33/551

CPC分类号： G01N33/587 ,  G01N33/54346 ,  G01N33/54373

摘要： A nanoparticle having a self assembly monolayer of molecules as a shell on the nanoparticle. The monolayer may include organic molecules working as surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) reporters. Also, the core shell may include at least a receptor, and/or the like, to ensure that a target analyte can be bound for measurement with SERS. The target analyte may be organic, chemical, biological, inorganic, gas, liquid, solid, and so forth.

摘要翻译： 具有在纳米颗粒上作为壳的自组装单分子层的纳米颗粒。 单层可以包括作为表面增强拉曼光谱（SERS）记者工作的有机分子。 此外，核心壳可以包括至少一种受体和/或类似物，以确保靶分析物能够与SERS结合以进行测量。 目标分析物可以是有机的，化学的，生物的，无机的，气体的，液体的，固体的等等。

公开(公告)号：US20090123297A1

公开(公告)日：2009-05-14

申请号：US11983255

申请日：2007-11-08

申请人： Yuandong Gu ,  Wei Yang ,  Aravind Padmanabhan

发明人： Yuandong Gu ,  Wei Yang ,  Aravind Padmanabhan

IPC分类号： F04B17/00

CPC分类号： F04B19/006 ,  A61M5/1486 ,  F04B17/00 ,  Y10T436/11 ,  Y10T436/25 ,  Y10T436/2575

摘要： A micro-fluidic osmotic pump capable of delivering a desired fluid at a predetermined destination comprising an inside fluid reservoir housing a compressible sac, a surrounding compartment having an external surface made up of a semi-permeable membrane and a fluid duct. The inside fluid reservoir houses a compressible sac containing a predetermined amount of a fluid that is desired to be pumped to a predetermined destination. The surrounding compartment holds a desired osmotic agent and its saturated solution in the remaining volume thereof. The surrounding compartment has an outer surface made up of a semi-permeable membrane that allows a predetermined second external fluid to permeate into the surrounding compartment. The fluid duct is substantially housed within the inside fluid reservoir and runs through openings and respectively provided through the inside fluid reservoir and the surrounding compartment.

摘要翻译： 能够在预定目的地输送所需流体的微流体渗透泵，包括容纳可压缩囊的内部流体储存器，具有由半透膜和流体导管组成的外表面的周围隔室。 内部流体储存器容纳包含期望泵送到预定目的地的预定量的流体的可压缩囊。 周围的隔室在其剩余容积中容纳期望的渗透剂及其饱和溶液。 周围隔室具有由半透膜组成的外表面，其允许预定的第二外部流体渗透到周围的隔室中。 流体管道基本上容纳在内部流体储存器内并且穿过开口并分别通过内部流体储存器和周围隔室提供。