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Method of preserving a sensor in a container and a container containing a sensor and a storage solution

US8136658B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

SMARTTIP BV · NL

Inventors

Holger Schönherr · Feucht, DE
Ewa Agnieszka Tocha-Bielak · Halle (Saale), DE
Daniel Bastiaan Bijl · Putten, NL
Gyula Julius Vancso · Hengelo, NL

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 18, 2008
Grant date	Mar 20, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 18, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB82Y35/00
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of preserving a sensor in a container, said sensor comprising a sensing area of metallic or a semi-conducting material covered with molecules having a MW>100 Dalton, said molecules being bound to the material wherein at least the sensing area of the layer is kept submerged in a storage solution, said storage solution having a composition that consists for at least 80% by volume of at least one compound chosen from water, ethanol, triethylene glycol and isopropanol, with the provisios that

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