Abstract: Electrostatic capacitance measurements are used to detect chemical or biological analytes, or chemical interactions, with great sensitivity. A diaphragm is coated with a material capable of selectively interacting with an analyte of interest, and interaction of the analyte with the coating exerts stresses tangential to the diaphragm's surface. These stresses cause diaphragm displacements that are sensed as varying capacitance.

Abstract: A microprocessor-based gas meter has fully electronic control, safety cutoff and data communication functions, while remains the same size of a conventional gas meter. The control circuit board in the microprocessor-based gas meter is mounted inside the main body of the gas meter through a mounting slot. The sensors, wires and battery are located in the rest space of the chamber so as to utilize the space of the chamber. When an abnormal situation is detected, the control circuit activates a cutoff valve and shuts off the gas intake. The data communication function is to transfer gas-metering data through telephone lines to the gas company so that the mistakes and cost of manual checking and recording can be eliminated.

Abstract: A gas meter, including flexible diaphragms which shift within chambers into which the gas to be metered is alternately admitted and exhausted, is adapted for a variety of different mounting configurations by the selection of appropriate top and bottom covers. In one embodiment, each of the top and bottom covers includes a gas pipe connection with these connections being arranged parallel to each other. In a second embodiment, the top cover is internally divided to provide separate paths for inlet and outlet gases while the bottom cover constitutes a blank plate.

Abstract: A dry gas meter includes a unitary core which functions as the meter casing and defines the inner sides of two gas chambers, a valve gear chamber, an index housing and multiple gasways. A central partition of the core has angled wall portions which provide dished sides for the gas chambers. The gas chambers are further defined by diaphragm carrying pan covers. These pan covers and upper and lower covers complete the body of the meter. Between the angled wall portions, gasways extend from a gas inlet formed in the lower cover to the interior of a valve gear chamber.

Abstract: The system includes a vestibule and a plurality of emergency exits interconnecting the secure area with the outside environment. The vestibule comprises a pair of security doors and the emergency exits comprise security doors having locking means and means for disabling the locking means in response to any one of several preselected egress corroborating events that are not likely to be associated with adversarial activity. The various preselected events may include non-emergency situations such as a request to leave or disable made by two persons within the secure area, a request to leave or disable made by a single person within the secure area plus security guard affirmation, and a request to leave or disable made by a single person within the secure area plus the expiration of a time delay triggered by the request.

Abstract: A spirometer having double rolling seals, each seal comprising an annular elastomeric membrane folded upon itself and arranged between a piston and a cylindircal casing so that the rounded folds of the two membranes face each other. When the piston is fully extended, a major portion of the axial length of one of the membranes extends axially well beyond the rear limits of the piston; however, that membrane is nevertheless retained alongside the inner surface of the casing, and does not collapse inwardly into the path of return movement of the piston, because of a protective effect provided by the second membrane. Additional assurance against inward collapse may be achieved by depressurizing the annular space between the opposing membranes. A serpentine leaf spring returns the piston to its zero position and is configured and arranged to provide diminishing resistance with increasing forward travel of the piston.

Abstract: In the gas meter comprising a housing made of non-magnetic material and provided with gas inlet and outlet, a driver section provided with a rotating member rotated in accordance to the flow amount of gas, and a meter driven by the driver section to display the flow amount of gas, a detector device for detecting whether or not gas is being used in a room or inside a house characterized by a magnetic material attached to the rotating member, by a sensor or sensors attached to the outer face of the housing to detect the rotation of the rotating member, and by a display driven by the output of the sensor to display whether or not gas is being used.

Abstract: In a diaphragm type gas meter, one crank plate pivotally mounting a pair of diaphragm movement transmission levers and the other crank plate pivotally mounting a pair of valve actuating levers overlap each other rockably around the central axis of a crank shaft. The relative angular position of the two plates is controlled e.g. by an eccentric cam. On a diaphragm control wall member for restricting the stroke end of the reciprocation of each measuring diaphragm of said gas meter are formed two inclined diaphragm control surfaces with different angles of inclination. Further, on a lower casing of the gas meter is integrally die-cast a partition wall with triangular section flush with the top surface of the lower casing and defining a discharge-side valve chamber and a discharge passage.