Sensor probe

US6666081B1 · kind B1 · utility

Inventors

• Holger Babinsky · Cambridge, GB
• Colm Durkan · Cambridge, GB
• Howard Hodson · Cambridge, GB
• Mark Welland · Cambridge, GB
• Robert P. Howell · San Jose, US
• Uwe Kuschel · Gernsheim, DE
• David Moore · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 9, 2002
• Grant date: Dec 23, 2003
• Expiry date: Jul 9, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01P13/02
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An elongate probe suitable for measuring one or more properties of a stream of fluid, the probe having an external planar sensing surface, which in use is exposed to the stream of fluid, at a longitudinal end thereof and comprising a plurality of sensors at the planar external sensing surface.