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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110299563 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND METHODS FOR THE USE THEREOF The application relates to a device based on the electrothermal method for determining thermal conductivity, which allows the examiniation of various phenomena, with a high level of reliability, through the study of the thermal behaviour of materials. The device is cons... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110286494 | TEMPERATURE SENSOR, MANUFACTURING PROCESS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD OF ASSEMBLY The invention relates to a temperature sensor comprising: a temperature-sensitive element (3); and a peripheral casing (7) accommodating the temperature-sensitive element (3) and having a closed end (9), the peripheral casing (7) being... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110122915 | METHOD FOR TESTING HEAT PIPES A method for testing heat pipes includes the following steps. A plurality of bar-shaped heat pipes having the same size is provided, and the heat pipes are deformed. The deformed heat pipes are placed in a temperature regulator, such that a temperature of the heat pipes... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110101349 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE, METHOD OF EVALUATING SAME, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME A semiconductor package includes a wiring board, a semiconductor device mounted on the wiring board, an electrically-conductive thermal interface material provided on the semiconductor device, a test electrode in contact with a first surface of the thermal interface mat... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110038392 | Softening point measuring apparatus and thermal conductivity measuring apparatus In a local softening point measuring apparatus and thermal conductivity measuring apparatus using a probe microscope as a base, environment of the prob˜ and a sample surface is set to 1/100 atmospheric pressure (103 Pa) or lower. Otherwise, a side surface of... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110002356 | Method and Apparatus for Monitoring Materials A method and apparatus for monitoring during dynamic processes that determines when effective measurements of thermal effusivity and/or thermal conductivity can be made during a portion of a cycle during a calibration phase, then measures thermal effusivity and/or therm... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100318316 | Insulation Test Cryostat with Life Mechanism A multi-purpose, cylindrical thermal insulation test apparatus is used for testing insulation materials and systems of materials using a liquid boil-off calorimeter system for absolute measurement of the effective thermal conductivity (k-value) and heat flux of a specim... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100284002 | THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT APPARATUS FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL MATERIAL AND MEASUREMENT METHOD A thermal conductivity measurement apparatus for measuring a thermal conductivity of a one-dimensional material includes a substrate, a vacuum chamber receiving the substrate and four spaced electrodes. The one-dimensional material spans across the four spaced electrode... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100158070 | Method for Monitoring the Thermal Coupling of a Measuring Cell A method for checking the quality of thermal coupling between a measuring cell and a thermostatted element of an analyzer, where the measuring cell can be exchangeably inserted into an analyzer to measure at least one parameter of a sample, and is provided with at least... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100150202 | METHOD FOR MEASURING TEMPERATURE OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING TEMPERATURE OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE In the temperature measurement method for semiconductor devices, a junction temperature of a SiC GTO is determined by exploiting large temperature dependence of accumulation time ts as turn-OFF characteristic time of the SiC GTO that is a semiconductor switching element... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100128752 | Systems and Methods for Determining Heat Transfer Characteristics Systems and methods for determining heat transfer characteristics are provided. In this regard, a representative system for determining heat transfer characteristics includes: a stereolithographic model of a component, the model having a surface; and a test article moun... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100121217 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING CORE TEMPERATURE The invention provides a device and system for measuring core (11) body temperature, comprising two pairs of temperature sensors (8-1a, 8-1b, 8-2a, 8-2b), with a structure (2, ... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100088060 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR MEASURING AND CONTROLLING THERMAL INSULATION A mutual capacitance measurement is acquired for two thermally and electrically conductive bodies separated by an intervening dielectric material. At least one of (i) a thermal conductance and (ii) a heat transfer rate between the two thermally and electrically conducti... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100080260 | METHOD OF DETERMINING THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLID BODIES The invention is related to the methods of solid bodies' thermophysical properties determination, particularly, to the methods of heat conduction and volumetric heat capacity determination. In accordance with the method heating of the reference sample and surface and se... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100061420 | System and Method for Measuring Insulation R-Value A system and method for measuring the R-value of thermal insulation. The temperature difference between the insulation surface and the surrounding air layer is measured, as is the temperature difference between the air at the outer and inner surface of the insulation. U... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100034235 | Heat sink testing method A heat sink testing method for measuring the heat dissipation performance of a heat sink includes the following steps: using at least one fluid supply device to produce an amount of fluid, which has a first temperature and is driven to pass through a heat sink; adjustin... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100020844 | MONITORING SYSTEM The use for maintaining good equipment performance for heat transfer equipment which utilises real time heat transfer coefficient measurements to determine the thermal profile between the heat transfer fluid and the process fluid and this is used to maintain a safe oper... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090180513 | DISPOSABLE, PRE-CALIBRATED, PRE-VALIDATED SENSORS FOR USE IN BIO-PROCESSING APPLICATIONS Disposable, pre-sterilized, and pre-calibrated, pre-validated conductivity sensors are provided. These sensors are designed to store sensor-specific information, such as calibration and production information, in a non-volatile memory chip on the sensor on in a barcode ... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090161721 | METHOD FOR TESTING A HEAT PIPE AND CORRESPONDING TEST DEVICE The operational reliability of a heat pipe 200 provided for carrying heat dissipated by an electronic component 101 to a heat exchanger 300 is tested by using the heat pipe in the reverse direction, by providing energy in the form of heat at the exc... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090112507 | FLUID PROBE Systems and methods for evaluating the properties of fluids are described. One embodiment of the invention includes a printed wiring board substrate on which a first conductivity sensor and a second conductivity sensor are located, a temperature sensor mounted on the pr... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090100906 | PHASED MICRO ANALYZER VIII A micro fluid analyzer that may be highly sensitive, fast and very compact. The analyzer may use sufficiently low power per analysis to be easily implemented with an equivalently small battery pack or other portable power source. There may be energy conservation feature... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090086790 | Arrangement with an assembly and a mounting rack The invention relates to an arrangement with a mounting rack and at least one assembly provided with a housing encapsulation and mounted on the mounting rack, wherein the mounting rack and the assembly have contacting means which are thermally connected to each other. S... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20080310477 | Filled hotwire elements and sensors for thermal conductivity detectors Hotwire elements for thermal conductivity detectors, consisting of one or two individual nickel filaments with more than 200 ohm resistance at 20° C. and finer than 5 micrometers coating of polytetrafluoroethylene, wound with homogeneously distributed interspaces into ... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080253427 | Sensor Apparatus Systems, Devices and Methods A sensor apparatus and sensor apparatus system for use in conjunction with a cassette, including a disposable or replaceable cassette. In some embodiments, the cassette includes a thermal well for permitting the sensing of various properties of a subject media. The ther... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080227214 | Method for the Hydrocyanation of 1,3-Butadiene A process is described for preparing 3-pentenenitrile by hydrocyanating 1,3-butadiene in the presence of at least one catalyst, wherein unhydrocyanated 1,3-butadiene is removed from the effluent of the hydrocyanation and recycled into the process, and the recycled 1,3-b... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080205478 | UREA SENSOR A urea sensor includes a detecting portion which, in use, is immersed in a liquid accommodated in a urea solution tank for detecting the thermal conductivity of the liquid to detect whether the liquid accommodated in the urea solution tank is an aqueous urea solution; a... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080175299 | Thermal and Electrical Conductivity Probes and Methods of Making the Same According to the present disclosure, a system for sensing attributes of tissue in at least one direction is provided. The system includes a thermal conductivity probe having a sensor configured to measure thermal conductivity in the target tissue in at least one directi... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080107148 | THERMAL PROPERTIES TESTING APPARATUS AND METHODS Various embodiments of methods for testing properties of a product comprise: (1) heating a sample of the product via an ignition source and determining a temperature differential across the sample; or (2) exposing a sample of the product to a flame and determining therm... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080089383 | Microfabricated temperature sensor A microfabricated temperature sensor. The sensor comprises a polymer-based substrate and a resistance temperature device (RTD) disposed on the substrate. The RTD comprises a thin-film metal. ... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20080075137 | TECHNIQUES FOR PRECISION TESTING OF THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIALS Techniques for precision testing of thermal interface materials are described. An apparatus may include multiple anvils each having multiple sensors disposed along its axis. A thermal interface material may be disposed between the anvils. A control module may be communi... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080025366 | Probe for Measuring Thermal and Hydraulic Properties A probe (10) includes a base element (12), formed from an inflexible material and having one or more unitary rigid elongate prong members (18), heating and sensing elements (20) and (22) supported on the base element (12), and e... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20070274369 | Analysis data generating apparatus, analysis data generating method and computer-readable recording medium containing analysis data generating program The present invention has an object for setting thermal resistance corresponding to a contact condition of a contact face between two elements automatically and generating analysis data including a thermal conductivity of the contact face accurately in a short time when... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070223558 | THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY SENSOR A sensor for determining the thermal conductivity of a fluid comprising a sensing module located within a housing having inlet and outlet ports for a fluid under test, the sensing module comprising a reference base surface and a sensing element spaced therefrom and havi... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070140310 | Identification of materials by non destructive testing In a method of non-destructive testing of a panel of composite insulation material (1), a portion of a surface (2) of a test panel is heated by applying a heat source for a predefined time or until a predefined amount of energy has been imparted to the pan... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070127543 | 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 providing a sample by layering more than 2 sheet materials or coated substr... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070047614 | Measuring system and screening method for thermal conductive efficiencies of thermal conductive devices The measuring system generates a temperature difference between a heating terminal and a terminal conductive device by setting the temperature of a metal heated block at the heating terminal and the temperature of a heat dissipating water jacket at a heat dissipating te... | 03/01/2007 |
| 20060222043 | Apparatus and method for measuring thermal conductivity An apparatus and method for measuring and mapping thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity at micrometer scale resolution. The apparatus and method utilize a mode-locked femtosecond pulsed laser in a pump-probe configuration to analyze time-domain thermoreflectance ... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060062273 | Method and device for measuring the thermal conductivity of a multifunctional fluid The invention relates to a method and a device for the continuous measurement (30) of the thermal conductivity of a multifunctional fluid. The inventive method consists of: placing a sample of the multifunctional fluid in a space (31) which is defined by a... | 03/23/2006 |
| 20060039443 | 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 specimen heated by the rapid resistive self-heating of the specimen; measuring a... | 02/23/2006 |
| 20050265422 | Differetial thermal sensors A sensor includes at least two microsensor chips in a housing. The chips may be arranged as (i) an absolute thermal conductivity sensor by exposing one chip to a sample fluid and the other chip to a sealed reference fluid, (ii) a differential thermal conductivity sensor... | 12/01/2005 |
