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Apparatus for determining a physical variable of a liquid or solid medium

US6435025B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateAug 14, 2000
Grant dateAug 20, 2002
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Expiry dateAug 14, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N2291/02836
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The object of the present invention is to propose an apparatus for determining a physical variable of a medium (2) in which the formation of deposits or buildups of the medium (2) on a subelement (4) of the apparatus (1) which comes into contact with the medium (2) is reduced or avoided.For this purpose, at least the subelement (4) is provided with a microstructured surface layer (7).

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