SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TESTING HEAT TRANSFER FLUIDS

    公开(公告)号:US20250067679A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-27

    申请号:US18943437

    申请日:2024-11-11

    Applicant: VGP IPCO LLC

    Abstract: A method for testing a heat transfer fluid based on a charged wire test (CWT) includes applying and measuring discharge current through a test circuit formed when a cathode and an anode are at least partially immersed in the heat transfer fluid in a container and a voltmeter coupled to the cathode and the anode is turned on during the CWT. The method includes measuring temperature of the heat transfer fluid during the CWT, determining a current profile based on the measured discharge current, and determining a temperature profile based on the measured temperature. The method includes determining a pass/fail status and/or a rank status of the heat transfer fluid based on pass/fail criteria based on the current profile and the temperature profile during an entire duration of the CWT.

    Concentration measurement device
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11994481B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-28

    申请号:US17434963

    申请日:2020-03-17

    CPC classification number: G01N25/18 G01N27/18

    Abstract: It is possible to reduce a decrease in accuracy of measuring the concentration of a measurement target gas even in a case where, in a mixture of gases, there is a gas greatly different from another gas in a rate of change in thermal conductivity with respect to temperature. The concentration measurement device includes a sensor configured to measure the concentration of a measurement target gas in a mixture of gases on the basis of thermal conductivity of the measurement target gas, the mixture of gases including two or more components, and a heating unit configured to heat the mixture of gases so that the concentration of the measurement target gas can be uniquely determined with respect to the thermal conductivity.

    Automobile damage detection using thermal conductivity

    公开(公告)号:US11798323B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-24

    申请号:US18080503

    申请日:2022-12-13

    Abstract: In one aspect, an example method includes (a) determining, via a thermal conductivity sensor of an automobile damage detection device, one or more thermal conductivities at one or more locations on an automobile; (b) transmitting, via a network interface of the automobile damage detection device, a request for anticipated thermal conductivity data from an automobile claims system, wherein the anticipated thermal conductivity data corresponds to anticipated thermal conductivities at the one or more locations on the automobile; (c) in response to transmitting the request, receiving, via the network interface from the automobile claims system, the anticipated thermal conductivity data; and (d) in response to receiving, from the automobile claims system, the anticipated thermal conductivity data, displaying, via a graphical user interface, a graphical representation of the determined one or more thermal conductivities and the anticipated thermal conductivity data.

    Automobile damage detection using thermal conductivity

    公开(公告)号:US11580791B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-14

    申请号:US17500550

    申请日:2021-10-13

    Abstract: In one aspect, an example method includes (a) determining, via a thermal conductivity sensor of an automobile damage detection device, one or more thermal conductivities at one or more locations on an automobile; (b) transmitting, via a network interface of the automobile damage detection device, a request for anticipated thermal conductivity data from an automobile claims system, wherein the anticipated thermal conductivity data corresponds to anticipated thermal conductivities at the one or more locations on the automobile; (c) in response to transmitting the request, receiving, via the network interface from the automobile claims system, the anticipated thermal conductivity data; and (d) in response to receiving, from the automobile claims system, the anticipated thermal conductivity data, displaying, via a graphical user interface, a graphical representation of the determined one or more thermal conductivities and the anticipated thermal conductivity data.

    Gas sensors
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11543378B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-03

    申请号:US16709811

    申请日:2019-12-10

    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a gas sensor that includes an active sensor area that is exposed to an environment for detection of elements. The gas sensor may be an air quality sensor that can be fixed in position or carried by a user. The gas sensor includes a heater formed above chamber. The gas sensor includes an active sensor layer above the heater that forms the active sensor area. The gas sensor can include a passive conductive layer, such as a hotplate that further conducts and distributes heat from the heater to the active sensor area. The heater can include a plurality of extensions. The heater can also include a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer where the second conductive layer includes a plurality of openings to increase an amount of heat and to more evenly distribute heat from the heater to the active sensor area.

    Gas sensor
    7.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11499932B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-15

    申请号:US16649558

    申请日:2018-09-05

    Abstract: A gas sensor includes: a first thermistor having a resistance value that changes according to a concentration of a first gas with a first sensitivity and changes according to a concentration of a second gas with a second sensitivity; a second thermistor connected in series to the first thermistor, the second thermistor having a resistance value that changes according to a concentration of the first gas with a third sensitivity that is lower than the first sensitivity and changes according to a concentration of the second gas with a fourth sensitivity that is different from the second sensitivity; and a correction resistor connected in parallel with the first or second thermistor.

    Heater Meander
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220299461A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-22

    申请号:US17692990

    申请日:2022-03-11

    Abstract: A heat meander is disclosed. In an embodiment a heater meander includes a meander structure, wherein central meander lines of the meander structure are thicker than meander lines in an outer area of the meander structure.

    THERMAL SENSOR DEVICE
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220214197A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-07

    申请号:US17607441

    申请日:2020-06-09

    Abstract: A thermal sensor device capable of maintaining measurement accuracy for a long period by suppressing plastic deformation due to thermal expansion of the heat generating resistor and reducing resistance change of the heat generating resistor, includes: a substrate having an opening; and a diaphragm having a structure in which a lower film, a heat generating resistor, and an upper film are stacked so as to bridge the opening, in which a film thickness of the lower film is larger than a film thickness of the upper film, an average thermal expansion coefficient of the lower film is larger than an average thermal expansion coefficient of the upper film, the lower film includes a plurality of films having different thermal expansion coefficients, and a film having a largest thermal expansion coefficient among the plurality of films is formed below a thickness center of the lower film.

    CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220136988A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-05

    申请号:US17434963

    申请日:2020-03-17

    Abstract: It is possible to reduce a decrease in accuracy of measuring the concentration of a measurement target gas even in a case where, in a mixture of gases, there is a gas greatly different from another gas in a rate of change in thermal conductivity with respect to temperature. The concentration measurement device includes a sensor configured to measure the concentration of a measurement target gas in a mixture of gases on the basis of thermal conductivity of the measurement target gas, the mixture of gases including two or more components, and a heating unit configured to heat the mixture of gases so that the concentration of the measurement target gas can be uniquely determined with respect to the thermal conductivity.

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