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Self-supporting thin-film filament detector, process for its manufacture and its application to gas detection and gas chromatography

US5549870A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 28, 1994
Grant dateAug 27, 1996
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Expiry dateNov 28, 2014

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03D3/002
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Detector of the filament type for determining a static or dynamic charactstic of an ambient medium, constituted by a resistive component intended to be heated by the Joule effect in the medium, and an interface region suitable for reacting with the medium by a physico-chemical process with an effect, depending on the characteristic to be determined, on the electrical characteristic of the interface region, in which there is a supporting member through which there is at least one aperture and at least one filament including the resistive component, composed of one or more thin films and a central portion located in the aperture and end portions via which the central portion is connected to the supporting member.

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