Patents by Inventor Edgar F. Bennett

Edgar F. Bennett 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).

  • Tritium monitor with improved gamma-ray discrimination
    Patent number: 4504737
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for selective measurement of tritium oxide in an environment which may include other radioactive components and gamma radiation, the measurement including the selective separation of tritium oxide from a sample gas through a membrane into a counting gas, the generation of electrical pulses individually representative by rise times of tritium oxide and other radioactivity in the counting gas, separation of the pulses by rise times, and counting of those pulses representative of tritium oxide. The invention further includes the separate measurement of any tritium in the sample gas by oxidizing the tritium to tritium oxide and carrying out a second separation and analysis procedure as described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1985
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Samson A. Cox, Edgar F. Bennett, Thomas J. Yule