Device having a diffusion sensor hose for detecting a leak

US5271901A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Issel · Karlsruhe, DE
• Peter Jax · Hannover, DE
• Wilhelm Leuker · Pinzberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 29, 1992
• Grant date: Dec 21, 1993
• Expiry date: Jul 29, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/22
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device for detecting a medium includes a sensor hose to be laid at a medium to be detected. A material is disposed at least in the vicinity of the sensor hose. The material reacts when in contact with the medium to be detected to produce a substance being capable of diffusion and being detectable.