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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8075181 | Thermal monitoring device A thermal monitoring sheet measures surface temperature distributions of large areas, even over large, contoured surfaces. The sheet incorporates conduits that terminate or intersect at temperature measurement locations with a fixed relative arrangement to form a tw... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8038343 | Apparatus for thermal characterization under non-uniform heat load A novel computer program product and method for thermally characterizing a device used for cooling an electronic device is disclosed. A cooling device, being operated, is thermally coupled to a heat pipe having a surface to receive a test chip. A heater is patterned... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8029186 | Method for thermal characterization under non-uniform heat load What is disclosed is an apparatus for determining the cooling characteristics of a cooling device used for transferring heat from an electronic device. The apparatus comprising a cooling device thermally coupled to a heat pipe. The heat pipe having an exposed surfac... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8002462 | Portable thermally profiling phantom and method of using the same The present disclosure relates to thermal profiling systems for hypothermic and/or ablative energy systems and methods of their use. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a system for profiling a thermal or electromagnetic treatment system, including an ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7976217 | Screening system and method for analyzing a plurality of biosensors A screening device and a method are described herein which can automatically handle and measure (interrogate) a plurality of sensor carriers (i.e., multiwell plates, microplates) with multi-dimensionally arranged, temperature-compensated or temperature-compensatable... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7862229 | Temperature-gradient cancelation technique and device A system, device, and method for minimizing x-axis and/or y-axis offset shift due to internally produced as well as externally produced on chip temperature imbalances. At least one temperature gradient canceling device is disposed on a substrate including a temperat... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7717618 | Apparatus and method for high resolution temperature measurement and for hyperthermia therapy An apparatus and method for increasing the resolution of a linear array of fiber Bragg gratings by applying a plastic coating having a high CTE over the optical fiber. Apparatus and method for determining the temperature of each of a succession of points along a tis... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7686505 | Method and system for indirect determination of local irradiance in an optical system The invention concerns a method for the indirect determination of local irradiance in an optical system; wherein the optical system comprises optical elements between which an illuminated beam path is formed and a measurement object which absorbs the radiation in th... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7645070 | Thermal cycler for PCR An instrument for performing highly accurate PCR employing an assembly, a heated cover, and an internal computer, is provided. The assembly is made up of a sample block, a number of Peltier thermal electric devices, and a heat sink, clamped together. A control algor... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7445383 | Method and device for diagnosing an external temperature sensor A method and apparatus for fault recovery and/or fault detection of an external temperature sensor of a motor vehicle, in which a temperature gradient is determined from the profile of the measured temperatures over time, in which the determined temperature gradient... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7438466 | Calibrating a thermal scanning system A method for recalibrating a bilateral thermal scanner comprising a first thermal sensor and a second thermal sensor can comprise acquiring a first set of thermal scanning data with the thermal sensors in their normal positions; optionally analyzing the first set of... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434992 | Radiation thermometer A first thermistor 8 and a second thermistor 9 are arranged forwardly and rearwardly of a thermopile sensor 5. A thermopile chip 55 is arranged and interposed between the first thermistor 8 and an integrated thermistor 57. A... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7419299 | Methods of sensing temperature of an electronic device workpiece The present invention includes electronic device workpieces, methods of semiconductor processing and methods of sensing temperature of an electronic device workpiece. In one aspect, the invention provides an electronic device workpiece including: a substrate having ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7391220 | Method and device for detecting defects of electromagnetic protection for electric harnesses A method and device for detecting defects of an electromagnetic protection for an electric harness (H). The device (D) includes elements (M1) for generating stimulating electric signals, elements (M2) for bringing the signals up to a predetermined powe... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7384191 | Method and apparatus for measuring spatial temperature distribution of flames A method and apparatus is provided for measuring the spatial temperature distribution of a flame emitted from a burner nozzle for use in the fabrication of tapered optical fibers and fused couplers so that the position of the burner can be calibrated to locate the o... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380982 | Accurate temperature measurement for semiconductor applications A temperature sensing component enables accurate in situ temperature measurement. The temperature sensing component is disposed within the process chamber. The temperature sensing component has a cavity, in which a transparent cover is disposed over an opening of th... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7374334 | Performance testing apparatus for heat pipes A performance testing apparatus for a heat pipe includes an immovable portion having a cooling structure defined therein for cooling a heat pipe needing to be tested. A movable portion is capable of moving relative to the immovable portion. A receiving structure is ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7350972 | Distributed temperature sensor using optical reflectometry A temperature sensing method in which pulses of optical radiation are launched by a laser diode (11) into an optical fibre (14) and optical radiation backscattered from the fibre is detected, the method comprising passing the backscattered radiation th... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347621 | Method and system for real-time estimation and prediction of the thermal state of a microprocessor unit A method (and system) of predicting a thermal state of a transient thermal system, includes combining sensor outputs and thermal parameters to construct a consistent set of estimates of internal temperature of a transient thermal system. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7329044 | Infrared clinical thermometer and temperature state estimation method, information notification method, and measurement operation method thereof Temperature states of a clinical thermometer body and an environment are estimated by temperatures measured by a first temperature sensor integrally formed together with an infrared sensor arranged to the distal end of a probe and a second temperature sensor arrange... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325971 | Method and apparatus for locating hydrocarbon deposits A method and apparatus for locating hydrocarbon deposits includes temperature 16 sensor for measuring earth surface temperature at each of a plurality of locations, and a solar absorption sensor 14 for measuring the absorption coefficient of the earth'... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7318673 | Temperature control system for food items The invention relates to a control system of the chilling process of the temperature of food items at values near but above 0° C. that prevents surface freezing of a food item. The surface freezing can be foreseen due to a mathematical relationship that is a functi... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315666 | Coiled optical fiber assembly for measuring pressure and/or other physical data A method and system are disclosed for measuring pressure and other physical data, such as the temperature, elongation, torsion and bending at any point along the length of an elongate carrier tube by means of one or more coiled optical fibers that are embedded in th... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7311264 | Method and device for the process regulation or control of thermal load changes of an obstruction-curved and/or thick-walled component through which a medium flows in a thermal system The novel method and device provide for process control—closed-loop control or open-loop control—for a thermal system with an obstruction-curved and/or thick-walled component through which a medium flows. The wall temperatures of the component are detected, the ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7300330 | Protection disks for breastfeeding mothers Protection disks for breastfeeding mothers, applicable to a mother's breasts ready to give milk, for protecting them and absorbing the flow of milk which comes out spontaneously therefrom, which comprise two kinds of disk clearly differentiated from each other, of w... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7283216 | Distributed fiber sensor based on spontaneous brilluoin scattering A distributed fiber sensor based on spontaneous Brillouin scattering uses a single-frequency fiber laser as a source and a cw Brillouin fiber ring laser as an OLO to optically shift the frequency of the OLO to set the Brillouin/OLO beat frequency within the bandwidt... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7240730 | Use of fiber optics in deviated flows A system to determine the mixture of fluids in the deviated section of a wellbore comprising at least one distributed temperature sensor adapted to measure the temperature profile along at least two levels of a vertical axis of the deviated section. Each distributed... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7237947 | Product and method for measuring temperature in flowing objects A temperature-indicating target length (15) of an expanding fluid thermometer (11) imbedded inside an object (91) moving in the flow (81) is achieved at a target point (21) along a flow and is measured by a measuring means at a loc... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237950 | Optical fiber temperature sensor and temperature measuring method An optical fiber temperature sensor employs a holey fiber. The holey fiber has an optical fiber concentrated part that a predetermined length of the holey fiber is concentrated in a spot region that is included in a space to be measured in temperature distribution. ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7196509 | Thermopile temperature sensing with color contouring A color contour of an object is displayed from information that is obtained using an array of thermopile sensors. A color contour of an object is generated by pre-establishing a relationship between IR radiation power and color, measuring the power of incident IR ra... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7186978 | Compact emissivity and temperature measuring infrared detector A hand-held, fleet deployable infrared camera with integrated hardware and software providing real time processing of infrared images. The camera senses variable temperature images over a selected object of interest and senses variable emissivities over the object. ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7164131 | High fidelity electrically calibrated pyroelectric radiometer Using biased, electrical power feedback to an electrical heater, the output signal from a pyroelectric detector is made to follow the waveform of incident electromagnetic radiation. The feedback power is applied to the detector to reduce the rate of change of the de... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159476 | Measuring device and method for reducing measuring errors The invention relates to a device for determining the non precise placement of measuring sites on measuring sensors and for reducing measuring errors, which result from the movement between the measuring sites and the measuring sensors when measuring the most divers... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7157714 | Thermal imaging method to detect subsurface objects A thermal imaging method to detect heat flows from naturally-heated subsurface objects. The method uniquely combines precise, emissivity-corrected temperature maps, thermal inertia maps, temperature simulations, and automatic target recognition to display clear, clu... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7121718 | Method and device for detecting defects in sheet metal segments of electric generators and motors In a method for detecting defects in sheet metal segments of electric generators and motors, wherein between the sheet metal pieces of the sheet metal segment an electric insulating layer is arranged, respectively, and wherein between the sheet metal segments a cool... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7119326 | Method and apparatus for testing an infrared sensor A method and apparatus for evaluating the functionality and sensitivity of an infrared sensor to infrared radiation. The method and apparatus are adapted for testing an infrared sensor having a diaphragm containing a heating element and a transducer that generates a... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7097354 | Method of determining the temperature in a system comprising a molecular heater fraction and a molecular thermometer fraction The present invention is related to a method of determining the temperature in a system, said system comprising a molecular heater fraction and a molecular thermometer fraction, and to an integrated system for temperature determination and temporally and spatially r... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7077566 | Methods and apparatus for temperature measurement and control in electromagnetic coils A method for monitoring temperature in at least one location of an electromagnetic coil assembly having at least one electrical winding. The method includes passing a light through a non-magnetic optical fiber inserted into a sheath that is wound with the electrical... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7073937 | Heat emitting probe and heat emitting probe apparatus A heat emitting probe including a conductive nanotube probe needle with its base end fastened to a holder and its tip end protruded, a heat emitting body formed on the probe needle, a conductive nanotube lead wire fastened to the heat emitting body, and an electric ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075576 | CCD camera having an anti-stokes phosphor bound thereto A camera includes a charge-coupled device (CCD). The CCD has an anti-stokes phosphor bound to the light receiving surface of the CCD. The anti-stokes phosphor emits electromagnetic radiation having wavelengths in the range of 950 nm to 1100 nm. A housing surrounds t... | 07/11/2006 |
