Thermometric apparatus and method for determining the concentration of a
vapor in a gas stream
    2.
    发明授权
    Thermometric apparatus and method for determining the concentration of a vapor in a gas stream 失效
    用于测定气流中的蒸气浓度的温度测定装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US6038922A

    公开(公告)日:2000-03-21

    申请号:US878566

    申请日:1997-06-19

    IPC分类号: G01N25/64

    CPC分类号: G01N25/64

    摘要: A sensor for sensing the concentration of a vapor of a volatile liquid in a gas is disclosed. The sensor has a dry-transducer temperature sensor and a wet-transducer temperature sensor. The wet transducer-temperature sensor is covered by a non-woven, non-flaking, liquid-permeable material to allow the liquid to pass from a source to about the wet-transducer temperature sensor and vaporize when the gas is not saturated with the vapor. The vaporization of the volatile liquid causes the temperature at the wet-transducer temperature sensor to have a steady-state temperature lower than the reference temperature measured by the dry-transducer temperature sensor. The difference in the temperature measured by the two temperature sensors being determinable to determine the concentration of the vapor in the gas. In an embodiment, the non-woven, non-flaking, liquid-permeable material is a porous membrane. In another embodiment, it is a gel.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于感测气体中挥发性液体的蒸气浓度的传感器。 传感器具有干式换能器温度传感器和湿式换能器温度传感器。 湿式传感器温度传感器被无纺布,非剥落的液体可渗透材料覆盖,以允许液体从源传递到大约湿传感器温度传感器,并且当气体不饱和时蒸发 。 挥发性液体的蒸发导致湿式换能器温度传感器的温度低于由干式换能器温度传感器测量的参考温度的稳态温度。 由两个温度传感器测量的温度差可以确定来确定气体中的蒸气的浓度。 在一个实施方案中,非织造,非剥落的液体可渗透材料是多孔膜。 在另一个实施方案中,它是凝胶。

    Non-invasive method for measuring lung tissue volume and pulmonary blood
flow and a probe to carry out the method
    3.
    再颁专利
    Non-invasive method for measuring lung tissue volume and pulmonary blood flow and a probe to carry out the method 失效
    用于测量肺组织体积和肺血流量的非侵入性方法和探针进行该方法

    公开(公告)号:USRE34938E

    公开(公告)日:1995-05-16

    申请号:US46403

    申请日:1993-04-09

    摘要: This is a non-invasive method for measuring pulmonary blood flow and lung tissue volume, called airway thermal volume consisting of dynamic registration of respiratory heat losses in ventilatory loading and/or humidity and temperature changes of the inspired gas. Pulmonary blood flow and airway tissue volume are calculated by solving the differential equation for nonsteady-state heat and mass exchange between the lungs and the environment. The lungs fraction as natural conditioner of the inspired air, having an inner heat source (pulmonary blood flow) and an outgoing heat stream calculated by measuring the volume ventilation and the temperature and humidity of inspired and expired air. Alterations of the baseline steady-state condition of lung respiratory heat exchange with the environment by changes in ventilation lead to achievement of a new steady-state condition where the heat stream from the lungs into environment is balanced by the heat stream from the circulation into the lung tissue. The maximal temperature of the expired air is taken as an initial relative value of lung tissue temperature, so that the quantity of maximal expired temperature change between two different steady-state conditions of lung heat exchange is proportional to the pulmonary blood flow, while the rate at which the new steady-state is achieved is proportional to the quantity of tissue mass. A probe for carrying out measurements includes a low-inertial device for temperature and humidity measurements of the expired and inspired air located in the middle of the airstream near the entrance to the upper respiratory tract, combined with a device for gas volumetric measurements and valves dividing in- and outflowing air for minimizing errors in air temperature and humidity measurements.

    Polarizing element
    4.
    发明申请
    Polarizing element 审中-公开
    极化元素

    公开(公告)号:US20080018997A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-01-24

    申请号:US11901794

    申请日:2007-09-18

    IPC分类号: G02B5/30

    CPC分类号: G02B5/3058

    摘要: Presented is a polarizing element that absorbs a component of a specific wavelength from electromagnetic waves passing therethrough and thus produces polarized light. The polarizing element includes a transparent substrate that has a plurality of first recesses formed in a surface of the transparent substrate. The first recesses extend parallel to one another with a predetermined spacing therebetween in a direction orthogonal to the surface of the transparent substrate. The polarizing elements further include thin-film-shaped conductive bodies formed on side surfaces of the first recesses.

    摘要翻译: 提出了从通过其中的电磁波吸收特定波长的分量并因此产生偏振光的偏振元件。 偏光元件包括透明基板,该透明基板在透明基板的表面上形成有多个第一凹部。 第一凹部在与透明基板的表面正交的方向上以预定间隔彼此平行地延伸。 偏振元件还包括形成在第一凹部的侧表面上的薄膜状导电体。

    Non-invasive method for measuring lung tissue volume and pulmonary blood
flow and a probe to carry out the method
    5.
    发明授权
    Non-invasive method for measuring lung tissue volume and pulmonary blood flow and a probe to carry out the method 失效
    用于测量肺组织体积和肺血流量的非侵入性方法和探针进行该方法

    公开(公告)号:US5005582A

    公开(公告)日:1991-04-09

    申请号:US545031

    申请日:1990-06-28

    IPC分类号: A61B5/00 A61B5/087 A61B5/091

    摘要: This is a non-invasive method for measuring pulmonary blood flow and lung tissue volume, called airway thermal volume consisting of dynamic registration of respiratory heat losses in ventilatory loading and/or humidity and temperature changes of the inspired gas. Pulmonary blood flow and airway tissue volume are calculated by solving the differential equation for non-steady-state heat and mass exchange between the lungs and the environment. The lungs fraction as natural conditioner of the inspired air, having an inner heat source (pulmonary blood flow) and an outgoing heat stream calculated by measuring the volume ventilation and the temperature and humidity of inspired and expired air. Alterations of the baseline steady-state condition of lung respiratory heat exchange with the environment by changes in ventilation lead to achievement of a new steady-state condition where the heat stream from the lungs into environment is balanced by the heat stream from the circulation into the lung tissue. The maximal temperature of the expired air is taken as an initial relative value of lung tissue temperature, so that the quantity of maximal expired temperature change between two different steady-state conditions of lung heat exchange is proportional to the pulmonary blood flow, while the rate at which the new steady-state is achieved is proportional to the quantity of tissue mass. A probe for carrying out measurements includes a low-inertial device for temperature and humidity measurements of the expired and inspired air located in the middle of the airstream near the entrance to the upper respiratory tract, combined with a device for gas volumetric measurements and valves dividing in- and outflowing air for minimizing errors in air temperature and humidity measurements.

    摘要翻译: 这是一种用于测量肺血流量和肺组织体积的非侵入性方法,称为气道热量,包括通气负荷中呼吸热损失的动态配准和/或吸气气体的湿度和温度变化。 通过解决肺与环境之间非稳态热交换的微分方程计算肺血流量和气道组织体积。 肺部分作为启发空气的自然调节剂,具有内部热源(肺血流量)和通过测量体积通气和启发和呼气的空气的温度和湿度计算的出流热流。 通过通气变化对肺呼吸热交换的基线稳态条件的改变导致实现新的稳态条件,其中从肺循环到热环境的热流由循环的热流平衡 肺组织。 将呼出空气的最高温度作为肺组织温度的初始相对值,从而使得肺热交换的两个不同稳态条件之间的最大过期温度变化量与肺血流量成正比, 实现新稳态的组织块数量成正比。 用于进行测量的探头包括用于对位于上呼吸道入口附近的气流中部的过期和启发空气进行温度和湿度测量的低惯性装置,以及用于气体体积测量和阀分离的装置 进出空气,以最大限度地减少空气温湿度测量中的误差。