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Inspection chip for sensor measuring instrument

US6792791B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 12, 2001
Grant dateSep 21, 2004
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Expiry dateDec 12, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N2035/00772
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A check chip of the present invention employed at a usage of a sensor measuring device is provided with a structural characterizing portion of a convex shape, concave shape or a penetration hole at a location, by which a user is considered to pick up, and the state of the structural characterizing portion is made to be different from that of a structural characterizing portion provided on a correction chip which is similar to the check chip, in a size, the number of the structural characterizing portions, or placement location.According to the check chip constructed as above, the difference from the correction chip can be easily identified even by a visually handicapped person or a weak-sighted person, according to the difference in the structural characterizing portion, from the touch, thereby preventing the person from using the check chip and the correction chip with confused.

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