Patents Assigned to APIX ANALYTICS
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Publication number: 20200182838Abstract: The invention relates to a heat flux sensor including: a heating wire (1) including a material capable of being taken to a determined temperature by Joule effect, suited to being connected to an electrical source, a resonator (2) of nano electro mechanical system (NEMS) type including: a beam (20) suspended with respect to a support (21), an actuating device (22) capable of generating a vibration of said beam under the effect of an excitation signal, a detection device configured to measure a displacement of said beam in the course of said vibration and to emit an output signal having a resonance at the resonance frequency of the resonator, said resonance frequency depending on the temperature of the beam, wherein one end (20a) of the beam (20) is integral with the heating wire (1) so as to enable a conduction of heat from the heating wire to the beam, a variation in temperature of the heating wire induced by a variation in a characteristic of a fluid surrounding said wire causing a variation in the resonType: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, Apix AnalyticsInventors: Eric Ollier, Eric Colinet
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Publication number: 20200182711Abstract: A heat flux sensor comprising: an array of nanofilaments suspended with respect to a support, each nanofilament comprising an electrically conducting material, the array being able to be biased by an electric power source to circulate an electric current in each of the nanofilaments, at least one resonator of the nanoelectro-mechanical system (NEMS) type comprising: a beam consisting of a nanofilament forming a side of the array, an actuation device able to generate a vibration of the beam under the effect of an excitation signal, a detection device configured to measure a displacement of the beam during the vibration and emit an output signal having a resonance at the resonant frequency of the resonator, the resonant frequency depending on the intensity of the electric current flowing through the beam, a temperature variation of the array of heating nanofilaments induced by a variation in a characteristic of a fluid surrounding the array causing an intensity variation of the current flowing through the bType: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, Apix AnalyticsInventors: Eric Ollier, Thomas Alava, Kévin Benedetto, Carine Ladner, Eric Colinet
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Patent number: 10048234Abstract: Analyzer 1 for analyzing a fluid 3 containing at least one substance to be analyzed and at least one inflammable substance containing: a source of gas 9 to provide a flux of diluent gas, an injecting nozzle 11 for introducing samples of the fluid into the flux of diluent gas and for producing a gaseous flux, and a detector 7 for analyzing the gaseous flux, wherein: the source of gas is intended to deliver a flux of diluent gas containing a material capable of supporting the combustion of the inflammable substance, preferably to deliver a flux of air, the injection nozzle is configured so as to introduce into the diluent gas samples of the fluid such that the average volume fraction of the fluid in the gaseous flux is less than 1/2,000 and preferably less than 1/20,000, and the detector contains at least one microsensor for detecting the substance to be analyzed. Corresponding method.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2012Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignees: Apix Analytics, Total SA, EIF—AstuteInventors: Phillipe Andreucci, Eric Colinet, Philippe Coric, Jean-Claude De Wit, Pierre Puget
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Patent number: 9927401Abstract: A gravimetric detector including a nanoelectronic structure including: a fixed part, at least one part suspended from the fixed part, an excitation device to vibrate the suspended part relative to the fixed part, a detector to detect variations in vibration of the suspended part, and a porous functionalization layer at least partially covering the suspended part, porosity of the functionalization layer being between 3% and 50%.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2014Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, APIX ANALYTICSInventors: Muriel Matheron, Regis Barattin, Vincent Jousseaume, Florence Ricoul
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Publication number: 20160327518Abstract: A gravimetric detector including a nanoelectronic structure including: a fixed part, at least one part suspended from the fixed part, an excitation device to vibrate the suspended part relative to the fixed part, a detector to detect variations in vibration of the suspended part, and a porous functionalization layer at least partially covering the suspended part, porosity of the functionalization layer being between 3% and 50%.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, APIX ANALYTICSInventors: Muriel MATHERON, Regis BARATTIN, Vincent JOUSSEAUME, Florence RICOUL
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Publication number: 20150308990Abstract: A gas analysis system includes a fluidic channel for flow of a gas to be analyzed, a detector in the channel and adapted for measuring interactions of the gas with the detector, the detector including a resonator of the electromechanical nanosystem (NEMS) type and a heating system for heating a part of the detector, an actuation device for vibrationally actuating the resonator according to an excitation signal applied to an input of the detector, a detection device adapted for providing an output electric signal representative of the vibrations of the resonator, a read-out device connected to an input of the detector and configured for simultaneously measuring, from the output signal of the detector, the change in resonance frequency and the change in amplitude of the vibrations at the resonance frequency of the resonator, and a processing device configured for determining from the changes a fluidic characteristic of the gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2014Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicants: California Institute of Technology, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Apix AnalyticsInventors: Philippe Andreucci, Eric Colinet, Laurent Duraffourg, Edward Myers, Mélanie Petitjean, Mickael Lee Roukes, Joshua Whiting
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Publication number: 20150300996Abstract: Analyzer 1 for analyzing a fluid 3 containing at least one substance to be analyzed and at least one inflammable substance containing: a source of gas 9 to provide a flux of diluent gas, an injecting nozzle 11 for introducing samples of the fluid into the flux of diluent gas and for producing a gaseous flux, and a detector 7 for analyzing the gaseous flux, wherein: the source of gas is intended to deliver a flux of diluent gas containing a material capable of supporting the combustion of the inflammable substance, preferably to deliver a flux of air, the injection nozzle is configured so as to introduce into the diluent gas samples of the fluid such that the average volume fraction of the fluid in the gaseous flux is less than 1/2,000 and preferably less than 1/20,000, and the detector contains at least one microsensor for detecting the substance to be analyzed. Corresponding method.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2012Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicants: APIX ANALYTICS, TOTAL SA, EIF - ASTUTEInventors: Phillipe Andreucci, Eric Colinet, Philippe Coric, Jean-Claude De Wit, Pierre Puget
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Publication number: 20150300999Abstract: The invention relates to a measurement system including a network of nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) resonators, characterized in that: each one of said resonators includes: an electrostatic activation device capable of generating a vibration of a beam exposed to said excitation signal, at least one piezoresistive stress gauge made of a doped semiconducting material, extending from the beam so as to detect a movement of said beam, the variation in the electrical resistance of said at least one gauge supplying an output signal; said network includes at least two groups of resonators, each group including at least two resonators having an identical empty resonance frequency, each group of resonators having an empty resonance frequency different from that of each other group; the resonators forming each group are connected in parallel; the groups of resonators forming said network are connected in parallel; said system includes a reading device designed to supply an excitation signal at the network input andType: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2013Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicants: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives, Apix AnalyticsInventors: Philippe Andreucci, Régis Barattin, Eric Colinet, Laurent Duraffourg, Pierre Puget