Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for analyzing a gas
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Application No.: US14558219Application Date: 2014-12-02
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Publication No.: US10175212B2Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Philippe Andreucci , Eric Colinet , Laurent Duraffourg , Edward Myers , Mélanie Petitjean , Mickael Lee Roukes , Joshua Whiting
- Applicant: California Institute of Technology , Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives , Apix Analytics
- Agency: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP
- Priority: WOPCT/IB2013/003247 20131202
- Main IPC: G01N30/64
- IPC: G01N30/64 ; G01N29/02 ; G01N9/00 ; G01N11/00 ; G01N30/78 ; G01N29/032 ; G01N29/036 ; G01N29/22 ; G01N11/04 ; B82Y15/00

Abstract:
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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150308990A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING A GAS Public/Granted day:2015-10-29
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