Patents Examined by Julia Fitzpatrick
  • Patent number: 12656283
    Abstract: In an embodiment is provided a method for measuring a vapor-liquid transition of a substance, the method including introducing a substance into a sample cell of a calorimetric block of a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) at a first initial pressure, the system volume being constant; maintaining the substance in a vapor phase; cooling the substance at a cooling rate; and generating a thermogram. In another embodiment is provided a method for measuring a vapor-liquid transition of a substance, the method including introducing a substance into a sample cell of a calorimetric block of a DSC at a first initial pressure, the system volume being constant; maintaining the substance in a liquid phase; heating the substance at a heating rate; and generating a thermogram. In another embodiment is provided a method for measuring a vapor-liquid transition of a substance in the presence of an adsorbent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
    Inventors: Hertanto Adidharma, Sugata P. Tan, Morteza Dejam, Xingdong Qiu
  • Patent number: 12638321
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor element capable of obtaining a wide sensing region, suppressing unevenness of a temperature distribution in the sensing region, and obtaining substantially constant sensor sensitivity. A sensor element according to the present invention includes: a base; a temperature-sensitive film formed on an entire surface of the base and having an electric resistance value that changes due to a change in temperature; and wiring members connected to both ends of the temperature-sensitive film. The temperature-sensitive film includes connection regions connected to the wiring members and a pattern extending from each of the connection regions toward a center of the base, and a cross-sectional area of the pattern is smaller on the connection region sides than at the center of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: KOA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Kanegae, Katsuya Miura, Isao Nagasaka
  • Patent number: 12638342
    Abstract: Provided are a temperature sensor that performs high-speed sensing, whose cost is low, and whose layout is freely designed, the temperature sensor eliminating the need for complicated operations, and a method for manufacturing the temperature sensor. In a temperature sensor 1, terminal portions 9 of a connector portion 7 are exposed to an outside of a pipe section 2, a connector-side embedded portion 8 of the connector portion 7 is embedded in an embedding portion 4 of a side wall portion 3, an exposed portion 12 of a housing portion 11 is disposed in the pipe section 2, and an embedded base 13 of the housing portion 11 is embedded in the embedding portion 4. The housing portion 11 is made of a metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: NIFCO INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakamura, Takuhiko Nakajima, Satoshi Ikeya
  • Patent number: 12638343
    Abstract: A system and method provide on-line, wafer-level, die-level, or package-level thermal calibration of an integrated measurement resistor with a single temperature insertion. The system includes a measurement resistor integrated on a substrate with an unknown temperature coefficient and a temperature reference sensor thermally coupled to the measurement resistor. A measurement circuit measures an indication of a resistance of the measurement resistor. An electrically-controllable integrated heat source is operated by a controller to change a temperature of the measurement resistor and the temperature reference sensor and stores values of the resistance indication and the sensed temperature corresponding to multiple temperatures of the temperature of the measurement resistor and the temperature reference sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: CIRRUS LOGIC, INC.
    Inventors: Zhong You, Vamsikrishna Parupalli, Johann G. Gaboriau
  • Patent number: 12638406
    Abstract: A wiring component with physical quantity sensor is provided with an electric wire, a physical quantity sensor to detect a physical quantity of the electric wire, a holding member that is composed of a molded body covering a portion in a longitudinal direction of the electric wire and has a holding hole to house the physical quantity sensor, and an attachment member attached to the holding member. The physical quantity sensor is prevented from coming out of the holding hole by the attachment member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventor: Keisuke Fukuchi
  • Patent number: 12625005
    Abstract: There is provided a radiation temperature measurement device that accurately measures a temperature of an object being measured, and that includes two infrared detection units that detect mutually different infrared wavelength bands, a spectral characteristics data storage unit that stores spectral characteristics data showing a transmittance and a reflectance of each of the objects being measured, and a temperature calculation unit that, based on infrared ray quantities detected by each of the two infrared detection units, and on the transmittance and reflectance of each of the objects being measured, calculates the temperature of each of the objects being measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sho Fujino, Koji Tominaga
  • Patent number: 12625008
    Abstract: An optical sensor includes a support layer, a thermoelectric conversion material portion including a first material layer and a second material layer, and a light-absorbing film. The first material layer includes a first region and a second region overlapping the light-absorbing film. The second material layer includes a third region and a fourth region overlapping the light-absorbing film. The thermoelectric conversion material portion includes transition regions electrically connecting the first region and the third region, and the second region and the fourth region, respectively, and including a halogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyohei Kakuyama, Masahiro Adachi
  • Patent number: 12624943
    Abstract: Each of heat quantity measurement apparatuses 20a to 20c includes a snow receiving plate 22 configured that falling snow piles up thereon, a heater device 25 configured to heat the snow receiving plate until a temperature of the snow receiving plate 22 becomes predetermined target temperature exceeding 0 degrees Celsius, and a heat flux density measurement apparatus (24a to 24d) configured to measure heat flux density transmitted from below to the snow receiving plate 22. A piling snow depth measurement apparatus 14 measures a piling snow depth of snow piling up at a first location 13. A control apparatus 15 computes a quantity of heat spent to melt the snow falling on the snow receiving plate 22, and estimates a piling snow depth at second locations 12a to 12d, based on the computed quantity of heat and the piling snow depth measured by the piling snow depth measurement apparatus 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: YAMADA GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadayuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 12618721
    Abstract: A temperature-sensing device configured to monitor a temperature is disclosed. The temperature-sensing device includes: a first capacitor comprising a first oxide layer with a first thickness; a second capacitor comprising a second oxide layer with a second thickness, wherein the second thickness of the second oxide layer is different from the first thickness of the first oxide layer; and a control logic circuit, coupled to the first and second capacitors, and configured to determine whether the monitored temperature is equal to or greater than a threshold temperature based on whether at least one of the first and second oxide layers breaks down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shih-Lien Linus Lu
  • Patent number: 12613140
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to devices, systems, and methods for detecting and measuring the radiant power and emissivity of nonthermal far infrared radiation (FIR) in 3-16 ?m wavelength spectrum from the surface of a FIR-photons emitting object and, more specifically, in 8-14 ?m wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Inventor: Albert Chin-Tang Wey
  • Patent number: 12607523
    Abstract: A temperature sensing device and a calibration method of the temperature sensing device are provided. Based on different conditions, the temperature sensing device generates a first digital sensing value and a second digital sensing value corresponding to an ambient temperature. The temperature sensing device generates a first sensing result value according to the first digital sensing value, a first compensation value, and a sensing difference value between the first digital sensing value and the second digital sensing value, and generates a second sensing result value according to the second digital sensing value, a second compensation value, and the sensing difference value. The temperature sensing device obtains an error from the first sensing result value and the second sensing result value according to a first reference value and a second reference value. The temperature sensing device calibrates the first compensation value according to the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignees: Global Unichip Corporation, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ting-Hao Wang, Jun-Wan Wu, Pei-Ju Lin
  • Patent number: 12601643
    Abstract: A method of operating a temperature calibrator for calibrating a temperature sensor having a calibration block into which the temperature sensor is introduced and having a heating means by which the calibration block is heated and having a cooling unit by which the calibration block is cooled and an actuator by which the cooling unit is brought into thermal conductivity contact with the calibration block during cooling and is spatially separated from the calibration block during heating while forming an air gap. The invention further relates to a temperature calibrator is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: SIKA Dr. Siebert & Kühn GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Rehm-Gumbel, Thomas Meth
  • Patent number: 12586832
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus of measuring a temperature of a battery cell, which may measure temperature values at a plurality of locations through a plurality of temperature sensors arranged at the locations below a water-cooled battery cell module, and thus may identify a temperature difference between an upper portion and a lower portion of a battery cell, which is not visually identified, as well as all temperature values at all locations below the battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 12584800
    Abstract: A digital temperature sensor includes a current generation circuit, an oscillation circuit, a conversion circuit and a calculation circuit. The current generation circuit generates a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) current and a complementary to absolute temperature (CTAT) current. The oscillation circuit generates a first clock signal having a first cyclic period based on the PTAT current and generates a second clock signal having a second cyclic period based on the CTAT current. The conversion circuit generates a first temperature code based on the first clock signal such that the first temperature code decreases as the operation temperature increases and generates a second temperature code based on the second clock signal such that the second temperature code increases as the operation temperature increases. The calculation circuit calculates a difference between the first temperature code and the second temperature code and generates a corrected temperature code based on the difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hanseul Kim, Seongjin Kim
  • Patent number: 12578234
    Abstract: A measuring device for determining a process variable of a medium includes a housing comprising a housing body with an inner surface. The measuring device includes a temperature measuring apparatus comprising a first temperature sensor configured to determine a first temperature value, and an evaluation circuit configured to determine a medium temperature as a function of the first temperature value. The measuring device also includes a rigid printed circuit board having a resilient printed circuit board component. The first temperature sensor is arranged on the printed circuit board component. The printed circuit board component at least partially touches the inner surface of the housing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Bruno Worreth, Sabrina Ulmi, Jean-Claude Chevrolet, Fabian Steiner, Beat Tschudin
  • Patent number: 12567321
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for testing a heat detector of a self-testing hazard sensing device are described herein. One device includes a heat detector, and a controller configured to provide energy to the heat detector to heat the heat detector to a threshold temperature, determine an amount of time it takes for the heat detector to heat to the threshold temperature, determine whether the amount of time it takes for the heat detector to heat to the threshold temperature meets or exceeds a threshold amount of time, and determine whether the heat detector is functioning properly based on whether the amount of time it takes for the heat detector to heat to the threshold temperature meets or exceeds the threshold amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin H. Wolf, Christopher Dearden, Michael Barson
  • Patent number: 12523540
    Abstract: A nanoscale temperature detector including a diamond sensing probe with a transverse dimension of at least 200 nanometres and a sensing tip-having a curvature radius of less than 100 nanometres, less than 10 nanometres or less than 1 nanometre, and a plurality of colour centres, whose emission count rate show temperature-sensitive features. The diamond sensing probe has a transverse dimension of at least 200 nanometres and is connected to a to a detector system by means of a mounting structure. A thermal isolation barrier thermally decouples the sensing probe from the detector system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignees: Qnami AG, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS), UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER
    Inventors: Mathieu Munsch, Patrick Maletinsky, Felipe Favaro de Oliveira, Rana Tanos, Vincent Jacques, Isabelle Robert-Philip
  • Patent number: 12510412
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for determining a temperature value of a molten metal bath. The method according to the invention has been proven to be especially suitable for repeated determinations of temperature values; i.e. the method allows for multiple measurements with repeatedly newly generated leading tips of the optical cored wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: HERAEUS ELECTRO-NITE INTERNATIONAL N.V.
    Inventor: Michel Van Vlierberghe
  • Patent number: 12510415
    Abstract: An apparatus for correcting a temperature of an object using a shutter may comprise a temperature measurement module for measuring the temperature of the object and a temperature of the shutter, a noise temperature calculation module for calculating the temperature due to noise using the measured temperature of the shutter, and a temperature correction module for correcting the temperature of the object by subtracting the calculated temperature due to noise from the measured temperature of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: U ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon-Sub Lee, Tae-Hwan Eom, Min Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 12504336
    Abstract: A box-packed ear thermometer probe cover capable of preventing contact infection comprises a packing box, a plurality of stacked ear thermometer probe covers, and a cover holder, wherein an opening which can be opened and closed is formed in the top of the packing box, a long slot is formed in a side face of the packing box, ear thermometer probe covers are placed in the packing box, each ear thermometer probe cover comprises a container structure and a container space, a cover holder is disposed below the lowest ear thermometer probe cover and comprises a sealing wall, a top surface and a suspension structure suspended on the top surface, the ear thermometer probe covers are supported by the cover holder, and the sealing wall extends upwards to the opening and seals the long slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Inventor: Jiaxuan Mo