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- Patent Title: Method for measuring physical quantity distribution and measurement system using sensor for physical quantity distribution
- Patent Title (中): 用于物理量分布测量的物理量分布测量方法
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Application No.: US12440923Application Date: 2007-09-07
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Publication No.: US08175821B2Publication Date: 2012-05-08
- Inventor: Akihiko Nagakubo , Yasuo Kuniyoshi , Hassan Alirezaei Abyaneh
- Applicant: Akihiko Nagakubo , Yasuo Kuniyoshi , Hassan Alirezaei Abyaneh
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Assignee: The University of Tokyo,National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
- Current Assignee: The University of Tokyo,National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Agency: Law Office of Katsuhiro Arai
- Priority: JP2006-247420 20110912
- International Application: PCT/JP2007/067532 WO 20070907
- International Announcement: WO2008/032661 WO 20080320
- Main IPC: G01L1/00
- IPC: G01L1/00 ; G01L1/14 ; G01L1/18 ; G01L5/00 ; G06F19/00

Abstract:
It is an object of the present invention to provide a measurement system that measures physical quantity distribution over the entire region using a sensor for physical quantity distribution (PQD sensor) that realizes high stretchability, flexibility, etc., in at least a partial region, in order to measure the physical quantity distribution that is regionally distributed in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional manner, as well as a method for measuring physical quantity distribution. Such measurement system comprises: a body for converting physical quantity distribution (PQDc body) structured in such a way that the condition of injection current changes according to the action of the target physical quantity; multiple electrodes arranged in such a way that they can supply injection current to the PQDc body and measure data of the electric potential distribution generated by the PQDc body as a result; a PQD sensor comprising the PQDc body, electrodes, and an electric signal processing unit that processes electrode signals; and a processing part that processes data with the PQD sensor; wherein the measurement method comprises a data acquisition procedure to cause electrodes to generate injection current and measure the electric potential distribution that generates in the PQDc body, which is used as measured data, and an estimation procedure to read the measured data and use the read data to obtain the distribution of the target physical quantity that acts upon the PQDc body.
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