Patents by Inventor Christiaan Van Mullem

Christiaan Van Mullem has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20150075269
    Abstract: A sensor according to embodiments of the present invention is protected or shielded from exhaust gas under the conditions applying when no measurement is necessary. In embodiments the shield can be a flow of clean air or any other suitable protection gas shield. The present invention provides a sensor wherein close to the sensor in the exhaust system that requires protection as well as calibration, a means for providing a shielding gas is placed adjacent to the sensor element, the means for providing shielding gas being adapted to flow shielding gas over the sensing element when in virtual mode and/or calibration gas in calibration mode so that exhaust gas can not reach the sensor. For example a gas nozzle can be installed blowing a gas such as air over the sensing element when in virtual mode or in calibration mode so that exhaust gas cannot reach the sensor. The sensor and the sensing element in any of the embodiments may be adapted to measure the concentration of NOX, oxygen or NH3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Christiaan Van Mullem