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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7353722 | Contactless measurement of the surface temperature of naturally or artificially weathered samples A holding frame (2) is mounted in a weathering chamber (1) of a weathering tester so that it can be rotated around a xenon radiation source (3), which is located on the cylinder or rotation axis, and an infrared filter (5) placed around i... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7309157 | Apparatus and method for calibration of a temperature sensor A circuit for temperature sensing provides a bias current to a PN junction, and the PN junction provides a PN junction voltage in response to the bias current. Also, a parasitic resistance may be coupled in series with the PN junction. The circuit for temperature se... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7292719 | System and method for imaging A system for determining presence or absence of one or more thermally distinguishable objects in a living body is disclosed. The system comprises a combined image generator configured for combining non-thermographic three-dimensional data of a three-dimensional tiss... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7217121 | Method and apparatus for improved process control in combustion applications This invention relates to a method and apparatus for improved process control in combustion applications, and particularly those relating to the steelmaking industry. An apparatus is provided for process control in a combustion application comprising a laser to tran... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7155363 | Thermal imaging for semiconductor process monitoring The method measures the temperature, emissivity, and other properties of relatively smooth surfaces radiating thermal energy, and is especially adapted for monitoring semiconductor fabrication processes. Temperature is determined by relating measured radiance to the... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7119697 | Hydrogen fire detection system & method To detect flames burning carbon-free hydrogen-bearing fuels, first, second, and third sensors sense first, second and third regions of an infrared water emission band, and generate first, second, and third signals. A processor generates an alarm when the sensors ind... | 10/10/2006 |
| 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 transfer coefficients and film effectiveness values from a single test.... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7034300 | Infrared camera sensitive for infrared radiation An infrared camera includes a detector sensitive to infrared radiation and optics for focusing an object to be monitored on the detector. A light source emits a narrow beam within the visible wavelength region towards the object to be imaged by the detector. ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7029172 | Temperature profile determination Apparatus for determining the temperature profile of the surface being sprayed or otherwise treated, the apparatus comprising four electric arc spray guns (1) spraying molten steel. The guns (1) are connected to a six-axis industrial robot (2) w... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7013573 | Hole center detecting apparatus, straightness measuring apparatus, and residual torsion measuring apparatus A hole center detecting apparatus for positioning the hole of a spool and a cord accurately by determining the coordinates of two points of intersection between the inner circumference of the spool hole and a virtual straight line to compute the coordinates of the c... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6971793 | Test handler temperature monitoring system The invention provides a temperature monitoring system for a semiconductor test handler. A preparation stage brings a test device to a predetermined temperature for testing at a test platform at said predetermined temperature. At least one radiation sensor, such as ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6850862 | Methods and equipment for the measurement of the three-dimensional distribution of the temperatures within dielectric means A method and an apparatus for generating three-dimensional maps of temperature distribution throughout a dielectric object is disclosed. The apparatus uses radiometric sensors to detect radiation from various layers within the object over a range of wavelengths from... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6757412 | System and method for helping to determine the condition of tissue A system and method is disclosed for helping determine a condition of selected tissue of a patient based on a set of thermal images of the selected tissue acquired over a time period. The image set has image regions with corresponding characteristics indicative of a... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6711506 | Computerized operator assistance for turbine component inspection A plurality of system checks on a turbine component inspection system are monitored, and an end user interface element to cause an inspection of a turbine component to commence is enabled only upon determining based on the monitored system checks that the inspection... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6643604 | System for uniformly heating photoresist A system for regulating heating temperature of a material is provided. The material may be a photoresist, a top or bottom anti-reflective coating, a low K dielectric material, SOG or other spin-on material, for example. The system includes a plurality of ... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6640199 | System and method for optically determining properties of hot fluids from the spectral structure of emitted radiation A system and method for remotely determining at least one of the temperature of, and the relative concentrations of species making up, a hot fluid, based on the spectral structure of radiation emitted from the fluid. Thermal radiation over a field of view... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6572264 | Radiation clinical thermometer To provide a radiation thermometer capable of measuring a body temperature more accurately than it has been conventionally possible, by taking into account an infrared ray that is emitted from a front end of the probe portion and reflected from an eardrum... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6393375 | System and method for determining combustion temperature using infrared emissions The present invention relates to a combustion temperature sensor, and, more particularly, to a combustion temperature sensor that measures infrared energy emitted at several preselected wavelengths from a flame and/or a flame's hot gas at a turbine inlet ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6370486 | System and method for determining combustion temperature using infrared emissions The present invention relates to a combustion temperature sensor, and, more particularly, to a combustion temperature sensor that measures infrared energy emitted at several preselected wavelengths from a flame and/or a flame's hot gas at a turbine inlet ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6230108 | Realtime sensitivity correction method and infrared imaging system A realtime sensitivity correction method for use in an infrared imaging system, which compensates for possible sensitivity variations among a plurality of sensor elements constituting a infrared sensor device. The infrared imaging system comprises: an inf... | 05/08/2001 |
| 5864776 | Apparatus and method for detecting an error in the placement of a lead frame on a surface of a die mold A position detection system is provided which, without physical contact, by the use of detected infrared energy emissions determines whether there is correct placement of one or more small objects, e.g., lead frames, on the lower half of a two-part die mo... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5841675 | Method and apparatus for monitoring quality of electrical wire connections An improved method of monitoring the quality of a crimping machine includes setting the boundaries based upon the mean and standard deviation of a number of learned samples. By setting the boundaries based on actual samples, the system is better able to i... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5815410 | Ratio type infrared thermometer An improved ratio type infrared thermometer utilizes integrating amplifiers for each waveband having the integration time automatically set so that the output voltage utilizes the full range of an analog to digital convertor. The gain and offset of the am... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5737242 | Method for automatically determining probabilities associated with a Boolean function The invention relates to a method that makes it possible to automatically and exactly calculate the probabilities associated with a Boolean function. The probability of an event represented by a Boolean function (f) is determined by constituting a binary ... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5285396 | Device for evaluating race horse performance based on temperature A device for evaluating a plurality of race horses' readiness for a race by quantitatively assessing the horses' temperatures without contacting the horses, the evaluation being made prior to the race when the race horses may be viewed in a paddock area. ... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5272340 | Infrared imaging system for simultaneous generation of temperature, emissivity and fluorescence images The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for determining actual temperature, reflectivity and fluorescence of a surface and comprises in the preferred embodiment a two-dimensional focal plane array of rapidly tunable infrared detectors, 11, ... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5249142 | Indirect temperature-measurement of films formed on semiconductor wafers A method of measuring the temperature of a matter accurately, in non-contact fashion and without setting any emissivity comprising obtaining a spectral characteristics of absorbing electromagnetic waves inherent to a matter whose temperature is to be meas... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5239488 | Apparatus and method for determining high temperature surface emissivity through reflectance and radiance measurements The apparatus and method permit simultaneous and precise determination of the temperature and spectral emittance, over a wide spectral region, of a hot sample. Radiance, and hemispherical reflectance and transmittance measurements are employed, and FT-IR ... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5186541 | Non-contact infrared temperature sensing system A non-contact infrared temperature sensing system for determining temperature values for a series of targets all having a similar emissivity value, which calculates an emissivity value for the targets based on the sensed total heat radiated from one targe... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5169234 | Infrared temperature sensor An infrared temperature sensor with a sensor element sensitive for infrared radiation and which generates an analog output signal, permits a speed-variable and resolution-variable infrared temperature measurement, in that at least one resolution-adjustabl... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5165791 | Method and apparatus for measuring temperature based on infrared light A method of using infrared light for measuring the temperature of a semiconductor element with a surface layer formed by two kinds of materials that have different emissivities and optical reflectances is disclosed. The method includes the step of taking ... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5150969 | System and method for temperature determination and calibration in a biomedical probe An infrared detector receives infrared energy from the target and provides a detector signal based primarily on the difference between the infrared detector temperature and the temperature of the reference temperature area of the detector. A contact tempe... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5109277 | System for generating temperature images with corresponding absolute temperature values A temperature-imaging system for generating an absolute temperature value for a point of interest on a monitored surface is disclosed. The system includes a camera and a temperature analyzer. The camera gathers video image data related to surface intensit... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5029117 | Method and apparatus for active pyrometry The present invention constitutes a pyrometer device and an associated method of operation for measuring temperature based on the radiation emitted by a heated body in which increased accuracy is achieved by actively ascertaining the emittance of the body... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5021980 | Remote measurement of temperature A method for determination of the true temperature T and true radiative emissivity of a body at temperature T, using measurements of total energy radiated by the body in two or more adjacent wave length ranges λ1 ࣘλࣘλ2 and λ | 06/04/1991 |
| 4985858 | Method and apparatus for temperature determination An optical technique for determining surface temperature utilizes the Christiansen effect that is exhibited by dielectric materials; i.e., strong absorption bands at certain wavenumber values, causing the radiance of the material to be that which would ch... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4979134 | Method for measuring surface temperature of semiconductor wafer substrate, and heat-treating apparatus A method for measuring the surface temperature of a wafer substrate and a heat-treating apparatus are both used in a semiconductor device-manufacturing process wherein a reference light including infrared rays is intermittently emitted toward a wafer subs... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4974182 | Method and system for optically measuring simultaneously the emissivity and temperature of objects A system and method for optically measuring simultaneously the emissivity d temperature of an object and the ambient temperature with a successive determination of values of spectral radiance or spectral radiant intensity in n wavelength bands in the visi... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4924478 | Method of and device for contactless temperature measurement of an object independently of radiation emissivity A method of and device for contactless measuring of temperature of an object independently of its emissivity in infrared and/or visible range, is based on finding, by means of Planck law of radiation a curve which is the sum of the radiance or radiant int... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4890245 | Method for measuring temperature of semiconductor substrate and apparatus therefor An apparatus and a method for detecting the temperature of a substrate, and for controlling the radiation-annealing of the substrate, for example, measures the intensity of infrared light from the substrate when the substrate is irradiated by measuring in... | 12/26/1989 |
