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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6717044 | Thermopile construction with multiple EMF outputs A thermopile construction adapted for use as an electric generator capable of producing multiple EMF outputs in response to heat as from a pilot flame. A cluster of hot and cold thermocouple junctions are arrayed within a housing. The hot junction of one of the ther... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6354735 | Thermocouple assembly A thermocouple assembly includes a thermocouple; a plurality of lead wires extending from the thermocouple; an insulating jacket extending along and enclosing the plurality of leads; and at least one internally sealed area within the insulating jacket to ... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6352362 | Method of preventing leakage of a fluid along and through an insulating jacket of a thermocouple A thermocouple assembly includes a thermocouple; a plurality of lead wires extending from the thermocouple; an insulating jacket extending along and enclosing the plurality of leads; and at least one internally sealed area within the insulating jacket to ... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6299348 | Immersion measuring probe for measurement in liquids An immersion measuring probe for measurement in liquids, in particular in molten metals, has a carrier tube, a measuring head mounted on one end of the carrier tube, and measuring elements as well as signal lines for the measuring signals generated by the... | 10/09/2001 |
| 5288336 | Thermoelectric energy conversion A thermopile 30 comprises a stacked assembly of bimetallic layers in which there is full conductor interface contact over the distance separating hot and cold surfaces 31, 32. The assembly may include dielectric layers forming a capacitor stack. A.C. curr... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5100479 | Thermopile infrared detector with semiconductor supporting rim A thermopile detector is disclosed consisting of a semiconductor supporting rim which is doped across all of the rim. The rim supports a series of polycrystalline silicon and metal thermocouples. The fully doped semiconductor area serves as an etch stop f... | 03/31/1992 |
| 4759895 | Temperature measuring apparatus Thermocouple apparatus is disclosed, utilizing interlocked loops of dissimilar wire. Base means, spring mounted, are provided for tensioning the loops whereby their point of interlock, in compression, forms a non-metallurgically bonded thermocouple juncti... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4717787 | Thermoelement for measurement of temperature in vacuum furnaces A thermoelement which rapidly determines temperature and which is protected from disturbing signals during the measurement of temperature in a vacuum furnace composed of a thermocouple which is protectively sheathed by a transparent quartz glass portectiv... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4408088 | Aramid reinforced thermocouple cable A thermocouple cable reinforced with high strength, low creep fatigue resistant aramid fibers. The aramid fibers are pultruded over a central core of thermocouple wires. A water impervious, abrasion resistant, strippable cover is extruded over the fibers ... | 10/04/1983 |
| 3944438 | Generation of electrical power A heat-to-electricity converter is disclosed which includes a radioactive heat source and a thermoelectric element of relatively short overall length capable of delivering a low voltage of the order of a few tenths of a volt. Such a thermoelectric element... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3935744 | Clinical thermometer A clinical thermometer having a probe with a thermopile mounted thereon. The probe is inserted into a connector housing which includes a resistance thermometer for measuring the temperature of the cold junctions of the thermopile. The connector housing in... | 02/03/1976 |
