Patents Assigned to Advanced Test Products, Inc.
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Patent number: 6951062Abstract: A method and apparatus includes a filter positioned with a sample flow path such that it restricts or prevents the passage of foreign materials, liquids or debris into a device such that, if not filtered, the elements harm the operational ability of the device.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2003Date of Patent: October 4, 2005Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: Robert Zubik, Charles Raymond Shambaugh, Jr.
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Patent number: 6940289Abstract: A method and apparatus includes a signal generator, a power supply, a micro-controller a transmitter and a receiver for determining the condition of a line. The signal is passed through the line and any reflection is used to determine varying characteristics of the line.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2003Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: John Wesley Hyacinthe, Charles Raymond Shambaugh, Jr.
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Publication number: 20040245998Abstract: A method and apparatus includes a signal generator, a power supply, a micro-controller, a transmitter and a receiver for determining the condition of a line. The signal is passed through the line and any reflection is used to determine varying characteristics of the line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2003Publication date: December 9, 2004Applicant: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: John Wesley Hyacinthe, Charles Raymond Shambaugh
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Publication number: 20040246005Abstract: A method and apparatus includes a signal generator, a power supply, a micro-controller, a transmitter and a receiver for determining the condition of a line. The signal is passed through the line and any reflection is used to determine varying characteristics of the line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2003Publication date: December 9, 2004Applicant: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: Charles Raymond Shambaugh, John Wesley Hyacinthe
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Patent number: 6703840Abstract: Methods automatic process control of biasing and testing a heated-electrode refrigerant sensor for use in a refrigerant detector. An unbiased sensor may be mounted in a manufacturing station, and while mounted may be biased by applying current to electrically heat the sensor and by applying a voltage potential between the sensor's anode and cathode, thereby generating a bias current at the cathode, and after the sensor is at least partially biased, the bias current is used to electrically test the sensor's construction. If the temperature of the sensor is held constant at a bias temperature, the acceptability of the sensor may be determined based on the time that elapses before the bias current decreases from an initial value to a threshold value, or determined based on the noise present on a signal which is representative of an operating condition other than the bias current magnitude.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2002Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventor: Dennis Cardinale
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Patent number: 6679098Abstract: A gas detector, as useful for conducting refrigerant fluid leak detection, having a housing, a probe and a sample flow path assembly capable of providing a sample air flow rate to a sensing device in excess of 300 SCCM. The sample flow path assembly also provides the gas detector with a short signal path between the sensing device and a printed circuit board within the housing, an efficient sample path, and ready access to and easy replacement of the sensing device as well as of the probe, making the gas detector generally more reliable and cost effective. The sample path assembly requires a simple method of construction and sensing device replacement thereby reducing the difficulty and the time required for manufacturing the sample flow path assembly and, ultimately, reducing the cost of manufacturing the electronic gas leak detector.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2002Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: Dennis Cardinale, Manuel Duarte
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Patent number: 6649876Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for automatic process control of firing and biasing a heated-electrode refrigerant sensor for use in a refrigerant detector. An unfired sensor may be mounted in a manufacturing station, and while remaining mounted may be electrically heated by applying current and adjustably controlling the amount of power to gradually increase the temperature. Once the sensor reaches a suitable temperature, the sensor is fired, and while the temperature of the sensor is elevated, the sensor is biased. The temperature increase may take place at a first rate until substantially all the moisture is removed, and then at a second rate. Upon reaching the bias temperature, the temperature may be held generally constant for a first period of time before increasing to a second bias temperature for a second period of time.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2002Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventor: Dennis Cardinale
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Patent number: 6644098Abstract: A gas detector for sensing the presence of at least one predetermined gas is operative in conjunction with a electrical power source and includes a detection circuit, a temperature controller, and a electrical current controller, wherein the detection circuit includes a sensing device having first and second electrodes, the first electrode being connected to the power source for heating the first electrode, the temperature controller is operatively connectable to the detection circuit for maintaining a temperature of the first electrode at a predetermined magnitude, and the current controller is operatively connectable to the detection circuit for maintaining a current in the second electrode at a predetermined magnitude.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2001Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: Dennis Cardinale, Robert Zubik
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Patent number: 6619103Abstract: A gas detector having a sample flow path assembly capable of providing a sample air flow rate to a sensing device in excess of about 300 SCCM. The sample flow path assembly also provides the gas detector with a short signal path between the sensing device and a printed circuit board, an efficient sample path, and ready access to and easy replacement of the sensing device as well as easy replacement of the probe, making the gas detector generally more reliable and cost effective. The sample path assembly requires a simple method of construction and sensing device replacement thereby reducing the difficulty and the time required for manufacturing the sample flow path assembly and, ultimately, reducing the cost of manufacturing the leak detector.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2002Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: Dennis Cardinale, Manuel Duarte
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Patent number: D501145Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2004Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: Jaroslaw Bras, Gabriel Orenstein
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Patent number: D501415Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2003Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventor: Adam Seymour
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Patent number: D501416Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2004Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: Jaroslaw Bras, Gabriel Orenstein
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Patent number: D512730Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2004Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Orenstein, Charles Raymond Shambaugh, Jr.
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Patent number: D472482Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2002Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: Adam Seymour, Jaroslaw Bras
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Patent number: D474209Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2001Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: Adam Seymour, Gregory Shawn Sundheim
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Patent number: D482373Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2002Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: Adam Seymour, Gregory Shawn Sundheim
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Patent number: D491085Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2003Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: Charles Raymond Shambaugh, Jr., John Wesley Hyacinthe
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Patent number: D493113Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2003Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: Charles Raymond Shambaugh, Jr., John Wesley Hyacinthe
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Patent number: D496599Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2003Date of Patent: September 28, 2004Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: John Wesley Hyacinthe, Charles Raymond Shambaugh, Jr.
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Patent number: D499034Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2003Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Advanced Test Products, Inc.Inventors: Jaroslaw Bras, Gabriel Orenstein