公开(公告)号：US5831742A

公开(公告)日：1998-11-03

申请号：US659328

申请日：1996-06-06

申请人： Joseph Watson ,  Reza Tamadoni ,  Barbara L. Jones ,  Kenneth W. Peter ,  Thomas F. Wylie

发明人： Joseph Watson ,  Reza Tamadoni ,  Barbara L. Jones ,  Kenneth W. Peter ,  Thomas F. Wylie

IPC分类号： G01N21/78 ,  G01J3/08

CPC分类号： G01N21/783

摘要： A method and apparatus for instantaneously measuring the level of carbon dioxide (and other gases) in automotive combustion exhaust analysis is provided in the form of a portable battery driven roadside diagnostic instrument in which the CO.sub.2 level is measured by a calorimetric technique utilizing light as the energy source and a piezoelectric bimorph to vibrate a single fiber-optic element to multiplex between two fiber-optic receptors delivering the light to a measurement cell and a reference cell. The measurement cell comprises a salt of an acid-base indicator dye which provides proportional color change on contact with CO.sub.2. The dye is supported on a polymetric film in the cell.

摘要翻译： 以便携式电池驱动的路边诊断仪器的形式提供用于瞬时测量汽车燃烧排气分析中的二氧化碳（和其他气体）的水平的方法和装置，其中通过使用光作为测量的量热技术来测量CO 2水平 能量源和压电双压电晶片，以振动单个光纤元件以将两个光纤传感器之间的光纤传递到测量单元和参考单元。 测量单元包括酸碱指示剂染料的盐，其在与CO 2接触时提供成比例的颜色变化。 染料负载在电池中的聚甲醛膜上。

公开(公告)号：US5731510A

公开(公告)日：1998-03-24

申请号：US667964

申请日：1996-06-18

申请人： Barbara L. Jones ,  Kenneth W. Peter ,  Thomas F. Wylie

发明人： Barbara L. Jones ,  Kenneth W. Peter ,  Thomas F. Wylie

IPC分类号： G01N29/02 ,  G01N29/22 ,  G01N33/00 ,  G01M15/00

CPC分类号： G01N29/228 ,  G01N29/022 ,  G01N33/0016 ,  G01N33/0031 ,  G01N2291/0217 ,  G01N2291/0256 ,  G01N2291/0423 ,  G01N2291/0426 ,  G01N2291/106

摘要： Gas analysis apparatus particularly applicable to the quantitative monitoring of individual gas components in automotive exhausts, and providing this function in a rapid-response and hand-held, low power consumption format, comprises an array of electrically responsive solid-state sensors to which the mixture of automotive gases to be analyzed is simultaneously fed. Monitoring the electrical response of the sensors enables a substantially instantaneous determination of the quantitative presence of individual components of the gas mixture.

摘要翻译： 气体分析装置特别适用于汽车排气中各种气体组分的定量监测，并以快速响应和手持式低功耗形式提供该功能，包括电响应固态传感器阵列，混合物 同时进行待分析的汽车气体。 监测传感器的电响应使得能够基本上瞬时地确定气体混合物的各个部件的定量存在。

公开(公告)号：US5837897A

公开(公告)日：1998-11-17

申请号：US686964

申请日：1996-07-25

申请人： Barbara L. Jones ,  Thomas F. Wylie

发明人： Barbara L. Jones ,  Thomas F. Wylie

IPC分类号： G01L17/00 ,  G01M17/02 ,  G01N29/20

CPC分类号： G01L17/00 ,  G01M17/025

摘要： There is disclosed a method and apparatus for testing inflated vehicle tires to determine internal physical characteristics such as tire pressure. The apparatus includes a waveform transceiver for subjecting a tire to be tested to a transmitted waveform and for transmitting an ultrasonic waveform from a location external to the tire under test and for receiving the ultrasonic waveform from a tire under test at a location external thereto; and a processor for interpreting the received waveform with reference to the decay or attenuation of the amplitude of the waveform with time to provide a measure of the internal physical characteristic.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于测试充气车辆轮胎以确定诸如轮胎压力的内部物理特性的方法和装置。 该装置包括：波形收发器，用于使轮胎经受测试，发送波形，并从被测轮胎外部的位置发送超声波波形;以及用于从外部的位置接收来自被测轮胎的超声波形; 以及用于解释所接收的波形的处理器，其参考随时间推移的波形幅度的衰减或衰减来提供内部物理特性的量度。