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7607823 |
Leak detector comprising a self-heated thermistor control circuit
A system and method for detecting leaks includes a sensing circuit including a first thermistor device adapted to detected a leak upon contact with a liquid, and, a second thermistor device...
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7588366 |
Heat flow flux type differential scanning calorimeter
There is provided a differential scanning calorimeter in which a base line stability and a responsiveness are improved. There is made a constitution in which the stability is ensured by making a...
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7578615 |
Method and system for determining wind chill temperature
The present invention includes methods, systems and computer-readable media for more accurately determining wind chill temperature, T wc , equivalent temperature, T eq , time to freeze, t f ,...
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7549790 |
Measuring apparatus for thermal resistance of heat dissipating device
A measuring apparatus for measuring the thermal resistance of a heat dissipating device, the heat dissipating device includes a fan and a heat sink. The measuring apparatus includes a base, and a...
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7549789 |
Method and apparatus for thermographic nondestructive evaluation of an object
A method and system for determining thermal diffusivity and porosity of an article are provided. The method comprises heating a surface of the article, capturing image data corresponding to an...
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7547137 |
Freezing point temperature measuring method and temperature calibrating method in differential scanning calorimetry
It is discovered that a range of showing a state in which a sample is at a constant temperature at a freezing temperature by a latent heat can be specified from a result of a differential scanning...
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7539587 |
Rate-based sensors for advanced real-time analysis and diagnostics
The invention provides a universal rate-based transducer for advancing diagnostic and predictive analyses of low frequency physical phenomena, such as associated with heat and mass transfer, solid...
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7534029 |
In-situ temperature detection in high temperature ceramic structures
Ceramic structures such as catalyst supports or combustion exhaust filters that incorporate combinations of high temperature phase change materials, and methods for determining the thermal history...
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7507020 |
Method and assembly for assessing relative degradation resistance of materials with laser
To assess relative degradation resistance of different materials, one or more samples of each of the materials is irradiated with a beam of laser. The laser is chosen or tuned such that the laser...
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7490981 |
Method for determining thermal effusivity and/or thermal conductivity of sheet material
Disclosed is a method for determining thermal effusivity and/or thermal conductivity of a sheet material or of coated substrate having a thickness of less than about 100 μm. The method contains...
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7470058 |
Method and device for a thermoanalytical material analysis
Substance analysis based upon observed reponse to excitation described herein. When a substance is subjected to an excitation and a response is observed, a relational evaluation is made based on...
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7455448 |
Rapid thermal anneal equipment and method using sichrome film
A method of determining the degree of calibration of an RTP chamber ( 1 ) includes providing a test wafer having a deposited sichrome layer ( 22 ) of sheet resistance Rsi on an oxide layer ( 21 )...
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7448798 |
Scanning thermal probe microscope
An apparatus and method of measuring a parameter associated with a sample is provided. The method includes providing a probe adapted to heat the sample and applying a measuring current having a...
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7445379 |
Device for measuring heat transfer characteristics of fluid material
A device includes a measuring assembly, a fluid pressure assembly, and a manometer. The measuring assembly includes a heating member defining a first contact surface, a cooling member defining a...
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7440852 |
Stochastic analytical solution to quantify the earth's subsurface heat flow
An analytical closed form solution to mean and variance in heat flow is obtained by solving the stochastic heat conduction equation incorporating randomness in the thermal conductivity. The method...
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RE40470 |
Body function measuring apparatus
Body function measuring apparatus which provides: (1) an indication of the body function being measured, and (2) a loose probe condition by determining that the difference between the rate of...
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7407325 |
Method and apparatus for measuring thermophysical properties
The present invention provides a method for measuring thermophysical properties that includes: rapid resistive self-heating of a specimen by using a heating current; emitting a light to the...
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7399118 |
Thermal gas flowmeter comprising a gas quality indicator
The invention relates to a method and a device for measuring a gas consumption by means of a gas meter. A gas meter with thermal mass flow sensor for determining mass flow signals (S M ) and with a...
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7377152 |
Method and device for determining a characteristic value that is representative of the condition of a gas
The invention relates to a device and methods for characterizating flowing substances, liquid or gas. The device includes: a transport duct with a heating or a cooling element; a temperature...
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7364354 |
Method and system for measuring the thermal diffusivity
The present invention concerns a method and a system for measuring the thermal diffusivity. Said method comprises the steps of: subjecting a surface region of an object to a modulated heating beam...
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7329043 |
Thermal properties testing apparatus and methods
An apparatus for testing properties of a product comprising a thermal barrier layer comprises an ignition source, a test stand that extends a sample of the product over the ignition source, and a...
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7316505 |
Method of defining the emission coefficient of a surface to be heated
A method of defining the emission coefficient of a surface to be heated by measuring the temperature of a heating surface and the flow of heat from the heating surface to a surface to be heated to...
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7273316 |
Device and method for thermogravimetrically testing the behavior of a solid material
A method for thermogravimetrically testing the behavior of a solid material in the presence of a controlled gaseous atmosphere, characterized in that a plurality of samples ( 10 ) are placed in the...
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7249881 |
Method and apparatus for characterization of devices and circuits
A method and apparatus for performing characterization of devices is presented. The characteristic of the device are determined by obtaining a first temperature measurement in a first location of a...
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7232255 |
System for measuring heat flow
The invention provides a system for determining the heat flow rate between a first and a second medium, the system including at least two sensor units having signal outputs disposed in a...
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7220050 |
Method using flux sensors to determine the output of a thermal reaction within a housing and device for carrying out such a method
The method uses heat flux sensors to determine the exchange area A between a reagent and housing containing the reagent, with the aim of determining the characteristics of the housing and the...
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7116501 |
Optical element holder, exposure apparatus, and device fabricating method
An optical element holder for holding an optical element includes a holding element to hold the optical element or a holding part provided to the optical element unitedly, wherein there is...
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7104681 |
Method and device to determine the thermal diffusivity of materials, such as thermoplastic polymers, during non-stationary heat transfer processes
A measurement cell for an injection machine has a cavity formed between two removable and exchangeable internal metallic blocks equipped with a cooling and heating system. The internal metallic...
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7056011 |
Permittivity based temperature measurement and related methods
A method for determining temperature of a material ( 32 ) comprising: measuring at least one of the real and imaginary part of the permittivity of the material ( 32 ) at each of at least one...
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7048436 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring substances
The methodology disclosed permits the testing of fluids, solids, powders and pastes through the measurements of effusivity. Effusivity is a measurement that combines thermal conductivity, density,...
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7048434 |
Thermal analysis and characterization of layers and multiple layer structures
Thermally analysis of layers and multiple layer structures used in the semiconductor processing arts is disclosed. A modulated calorimetric analysis may be used to determine a thermal signature...
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7044635 |
Temperature correction method for thermal analysis apparatus and thermal analysis apparatus
Disclosed is a temperature correction method for a thermal analysis apparatus which measures electric current, voltage, and electric resistance of a measurement sample while changing the...
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7040805 |
Method of infrared thermography
A method of infrared thermography is described. The invention utilizes a high resolution infrared thermography system and associated computer in conjunction with a test chamber to determine heat...
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7040804 |
Method for measuring diffusion coefficient in conductive melts, and apparatus for measuring the same
Two conductive solid materials with their respective different compositions are joined in parallel with a gravity direction thereof, and then, heated and melted under static magnetic field...
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7038209 |
Device for detecting thermal conductivity by means of optical pulses
The present invention relates to a device for detecting the thermal conductivity by application of optical pulse techniques. A sample preheated in a furnace is exposed to energy by means of an...
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7021820 |
Low thermal inertia scanning adiabatic calorimeter
A new adiabatic scanning calorimeter allows the thermal mass of a high-pressure reaction vessel to be dynamically compensated during a test. This allows the effective Φ factor for the experiment...
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7010462 |
System and method for evaluating efficiency losses for turbine components
A method and system of evaluating a turbine component comprises obtaining data relating to respective surface conditions at a plurality of different surface locations of the turbine component and...
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6984064 |
Thermal transfer measurement of an integrated circuit
A system and method may be utilized to thermally characterize a live integrated circuit device. The system and method can determine the thermal transfer function of the device by analyzing...
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6941669 |
Method for determining effective coefficient of thermal expansion
A method for determining an “effective” thermal coefficient of a machine comprises the steps of installing one or more temperature sensors ( 110 ) at various locations on the machine,...
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6923570 |
Thermal interface material characterizing system
An automated test method characterizes the performance of commercially available thermal interface materials (TIM) for electronic cooling. Such automated internal test vehicle provides an...
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6902317 |
Method and device for measuring thermoelectric characteristics of combinatorial specimen
A method and device for measuring thermoelectric characteristics of a combinatorial sample. The method and device are useful for rapid sample evaluation, the investigation of thermoelectric...
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6896405 |
Method of measuring thermal resistance of resin and a measuring apparatus using the method
A method of measuring a thermal resistance of laminated resin sandwiched by a first member and a second member according to the present invention includes measuring, as thermal resistance of resin,...
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6893152 |
Method and device for evaluating a fuel gas wobbe index
A method for evaluating the Wobbe index of a fuel gas belonging to a family of gases. The method includes measuring mass flow rates the fuel gas and of a reference gas, which is not necessarily a...
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6863437 |
Temperature-responsive polymer/polymer complex
The problem of the invention is to find a polymer mixture which forms an inter-polymer complex by being responsive to temperature even under neutral to alkaline conditions. According to the...
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6860633 |
Thermal expansion measurements using Fabry-Perot etalons
A method for determining the thermal expansion coefficient of a substance comprises, determining at each of two or more temperatures the absolute position of more than one resonant interference...
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6831554 |
Abnormality detection method and protection apparatus
A general abnormal heating detection method in an electronic device is limited to an object to be monitored, and cannot cope with heating of an object of which overheating is unexpected. To correct...
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6827903 |
Inert gas fusion analyzer
A single pass analyzer includes multiple infrared sensors, a catalytic converter, a scrubber and a thermal conductivity cell all coupled in series to provide a single pass (i.e., one sample)...
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6824306 |
Thermal insulation testing method and apparatus
A test apparatus and method of its use for evaluating various performance aspects of a test specimen is disclosed. A chamber within a housing contains a cold mass tank with a contact surface in...
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6804622 |
Method and apparatus for non-destructive thermal inspection
A method of quantitative non-destructive thermal inspection of an article having at least one internal cavity comprises the steps of inputting physical properties of the article, measuring thermal...
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6793388 |
Semiconductor laser and fabricating method of the same
A semiconductor laser having an S-ARROW structure confining a basic lateral mode light between a pair of guide layers extending with a gap therebetween, which increases a precision of a shape of a...
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