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公开(公告)号:US20250067633A1
公开(公告)日:2025-02-27
申请号:US18726369
申请日:2023-02-03
Applicant: Institute for Environmental Health, Inc.
Inventor: Mansour SAMADPOUR
IPC: G01N1/08
Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods using same for taking surface samples of bulk materials or loose materials for testing purposes (e.g., presence of pathogens, microorganisms, contaminants, etc.) in a manner that improves efficiency, reliability, repeatability, and case of use. The methods and devices provide for protecting the sample from accidental outside contamination by providing for immediate placement of collected pieces of material into a protected sampling container or collection space. The methods and devices require less hand-eye coordination skill than using a knife, and are thus more easily used by workers and/or by robots to achieve consistent results.
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公开(公告)号:US20250044195A1
公开(公告)日:2025-02-06
申请号:US17436458
申请日:2021-06-08
Applicant: China Institute of Atomic Energy
Inventor: Ruizhi LI , Lijun ZHANG , Xingwang ZHANG , Jie WU
IPC: G01N1/08
Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sampling device of acquiring a graphite sample from a reactor graphite block, and the sampling device includes: a support placed on the reactor graphite block; a lifter configured to be insertable into the reactor graphite block in a first direction; a sampling actuator arranged at an end of the lifter and configured to acquire a graphite sample from the reactor graphite block. The sampling actuator is configured to insert into the reactor graphite block in a second direction, and the first direction is substantially perpendicular to the second direction.
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公开(公告)号:US20240426801A1
公开(公告)日:2024-12-26
申请号:US18534496
申请日:2023-12-08
Applicant: Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS
Inventor: Xian LI , Xiangnan HE , Rui YAN , Zhen WANG , Zhemin LI
IPC: G01N33/24 , G01N1/08 , G01N1/16 , G01N1/40 , G01W1/04 , G05D1/225 , G05D1/226 , G05D1/229 , G05D1/248 , G05D1/43 , G05D1/656
Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a robot system and method for monitoring farmland nitrogen leaching. The robot system includes a cloud platform, a monitoring robot, and a leachate collection module. The cloud platform is configured to send information about a to-be-measured site and a to-be-measured depth to the monitoring robot and receive measurement information of the monitoring robot; and the monitoring robot is configured to move to the to-be-measured site to be connected to the leachate collection module at the to-be-measured depth of the to-be-measured site, extract a leachate of the leachate collection module, perform leachate nitrogen detection on the leachate, and send a leachate nitrogen detection result to the cloud platform.
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公开(公告)号:US12174208B2
公开(公告)日:2024-12-24
申请号:US17374265
申请日:2021-07-13
Applicant: IDENTIGEN LIMITED
Inventor: David Robert Thomas , Ciaran Meghen , Gregory Alan Peters , Amy Johanna Douglas , Robert Galbraith , Ryan Michael Watson
Abstract: A system for collecting tissue samples, such as meat tissues on carcasses, for example in the food industry. Also provided are methods for collecting tissue samples, and to a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising program instructions to execute at least one step of the method for collecting tissue samples.
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公开(公告)号:US20240344935A1
公开(公告)日:2024-10-17
申请号:US18429977
申请日:2024-02-01
Applicant: Jeffrey L. Royer
Inventor: Jeffrey L. Royer
CPC classification number: G01N1/08 , G01N33/24 , A01B29/06 , A01B35/16 , A01B35/28 , A01B35/32 , A01B76/00 , A01B79/00 , G01N33/245
Abstract: A soil probe assembly includes a frame member and a wheel rotatably coupled to the frame member. The wheel includes one or more soil probes that, as the wheel rotates against the earth, the weight of the soil probe assembly drives the soil probes into the earth. The wheel is configured to have at least two planar edges such that, as the wheel rolls onto one of the at least two planar edges, a slamming effect occurs due to the planar edge impacting against the ground, thus causing a soil sample to eject from a soil probe located across the wheel from the ground. The ejected soil sample is collected by a collection hamper. The assembly includes a funnel and a carousel such that the funnel is configured to receive and direct the ejected soil sample to the collection hamper, wherein the collection hamper is coupled to the carousel.
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公开(公告)号:US12000853B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-04
申请号:US17144059
申请日:2021-01-07
Applicant: Precision Planting LLC
Inventor: Todd Swanson , Dale Koch , Hayden Splechter , Timothy Schaefer
IPC: G01N35/10 , A01C23/00 , B01D19/00 , B01D21/26 , B01D29/11 , B01F23/53 , B01F23/80 , B01F25/30 , B01F25/54 , B01F27/1125 , B01F27/808 , B01F27/906 , B01F35/00 , B01F35/10 , B01F35/21 , B01F35/45 , B04B5/04 , F04B43/06 , G01G17/04 , G01N1/08 , G01N1/38 , G01N1/40 , G01N21/05 , G01N21/25 , G01N21/78 , G01N33/24 , G01N35/00 , G05B15/02 , B01F23/50 , B01F101/00 , B01F101/23
CPC classification number: G01N35/1095 , A01C23/007 , B01D19/00 , B01D21/262 , B01D29/112 , B01F23/53 , B01F23/807 , B01F23/808 , B01F25/30 , B01F25/54 , B01F27/11253 , B01F27/808 , B01F27/906 , B01F35/1452 , B01F35/187 , B01F35/2117 , B01F35/453 , B04B5/0421 , F04B43/06 , G01G17/04 , G01N1/08 , G01N1/38 , G01N1/4055 , G01N1/4077 , G01N21/05 , G01N21/251 , G01N21/78 , G01N33/24 , G01N35/00584 , G01N35/1004 , G05B15/02 , B01D2201/4092 , B01F23/581 , B01F2101/005 , B01F2101/23 , G01N2001/4061 , G01N2001/4083 , G01N2001/4088 , G01N2033/245 , G01N2035/00188 , G01N2035/00475 , G01N2035/00495 , G01N2035/00514
Abstract: An automated computer-controlled sampling system and related methods for collecting, processing, and analyzing agricultural samples for various chemical properties such as plant available nutrients. The sampling system allows multiple samples to be processed and analyzed for different analytes or chemical properties in a simultaneous concurrent or semi-concurrent manner. Advantageously, the system can process soil samples in the “as collected” condition without drying or grinding. The system generally includes a sample preparation sub-system which receives soil samples collected by a probe collection sub-system and produces a slurry (i.e. mixture of soil, vegetation, and/or manure and water), and a chemical analysis sub-system which processes the prepared slurry samples for quantifying multiple analytes and/or chemical properties of the sample. The sample preparation and chemical analysis sub-systems can be used to analyze soil, vegetation, and/or manure samples.
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公开(公告)号:US12000820B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-04
申请号:US17248559
申请日:2021-01-29
Inventor: Jun Kang Chow , Yu Hsing Wang
CPC classification number: G01N33/246 , G01N1/08 , G01N2001/1062
Abstract: A multifunctional and modular geotechnical testing device for testing a soil sample is provided. The testing device includes a testing cell, a plurality of needle probes, and a plurality of lateral pressure-measuring sensors. The testing cell has an oedometer ring for accommodating the soil sample, with a plurality of holes located on and angularly distributed over an internal lateral surface of the oedometer ring forming a plurality of channels to access the soil sample from outside. The plurality of needle probes, each configured to house a pore water pressure-measuring sensor, is detachably mountable to the plurality of channels from outside for simultaneously measuring the pore water pressures. The plurality of lateral pressure-measuring sensors is removably attachable to an inner peripheral side of the testing cell for measuring lateral pressures of the soil sample.
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公开(公告)号:US12000762B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-04
申请号:US17534961
申请日:2021-11-24
Applicant: BNSF Railway Company
Inventor: Darrell R. Krueger , Michael A. Wnek , William Dombrow
CPC classification number: G01N1/08 , E01B27/04 , E01B37/00 , E01B27/00 , E01B2203/028
Abstract: A sample confinement tool includes a first end and a second end. The first end of the sample confinement tool is coupled to a driving tool. The driving tool is coupled to a heavy-duty vehicle. The sample confinement tool is operable to insert a predetermined depth below a ballast surface and collect a ballast sample within the second end of the sample confinement tool. The sample confinement tool is also operable to confine the ballast sample within the second end of the sample confinement tool by mechanically compressing the ballast sample. The sample confinement tool is further operable to release the ballast sample into a sample receptacle by mechanically decompressing the ballast sample.
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公开(公告)号:US11948700B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-02
申请号:US17094850
申请日:2020-11-11
Applicant: Grant Charters , Sudesh Aggarwal
Inventor: Grant Charters , Sudesh Aggarwal
CPC classification number: G21C19/20 , G01N1/08 , G01T7/02 , G21D1/003 , G01N33/20 , G21C17/06 , G21C19/02
Abstract: A method for collection of dry samples taken directly from a nuclear reactor core interior. Incremental samples of irradiated metal alloy components of the reactor core may be taken and collected in-situ using a specialized metal-cutting drill bit having a hollow tungsten carbide sampling cutting head, in conjunction with an angled sampling gantry. The drill bit body has an interior airflow passage in hermetic communication with a filter located in a glove box. Air holes are formed through a face of the cutting head. A vacuumed airflow through the airflow passage and at the cutting head causes a sample of any of metal chips, filings, and dust to be obtained directly from the reactor core by being pulled through the air holes and into the airflow passage and ultimately into the filter. A collected sample may be analyzed for radionuclides and radioactivity level.
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公开(公告)号:US20240102891A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-28
申请号:US18334352
申请日:2023-06-13
Applicant: Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, MEE , Anhui Provincial Academy of Eco-Environmental Science Research
Inventor: Rongrong YING , Wenbing JI , Caiyi ZHAO , Bing XIA , Yuanyuan LU , Xiaoyu ZHANG , Zhewei HU , Yanhong FENG , Qi LI , Aijing YIN , Hongfeng CHEN
IPC: G01N1/08
Abstract: A sampling device and method for evaluating ecological risk of soil in a high geological background area comprises an impact sampling mechanism, a soil layer stripping mechanism and an auxiliary support frame. The impact sampling mechanism comprises a sampling hopper with a downward opening. A connecting sliding rod is fixedly arranged on the top of the sampling hopper. An upper end of the connecting sliding rod is connected with an impact rod. The impact rod is internally provided with an impact hammer capable of reciprocating along an axis of the impact rod. The soil layer stripping mechanism comprises a stripping sliding cylinder in sliding fit with the connecting sliding rod, and a support disc. A plurality of stripping plates are connected to a lower side edge of the support disc in a sliding fit mode.
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