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20100148159 | METHOD FOR FORMING A PATTERN ON A SUBSTRATE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FORMED THEREBY - The invention relates to a method for forming a pattern on a substrate (S) with an upper surface and a lower surface which comprises the steps of depositing a first layer (E | 06-17-2010 |
20100172816 | Ammonia storage system - A system for storing ammonia comprises gas detector that is able to detect gases other than ammonia. The system further comprises thermally activatable ammonia stores, which can be activated to release ammonia upon heating. When the ammonia stores are not heated, the system is below ambient pressure and any leak will cause external gas to enter the system. Therefore, the gas detector is used to detect the presence of such external gas, which allows to detect leaks. The gas detector may be embodied as a thermal detector using a single heater and two temperature sensors for detecting a gas flow as well as external gas. | 07-08-2010 |
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20130192338 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A portable electronic device comprises a housing and a chemical sensor arranged inside the housing which chemical sensor is adapted to measure a property of at least one analyte. The device further comprises an opening in the housing for exposing the chemical sensor to the fluid to be analyzed. | 08-01-2013 |
20130344609 | CHEMICAL SENSOR IN A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A portable electronic device contains a chemical sensor being sensitive to at least one analyte and a trigger sensor. A signal supplied by the trigger sensor is monitored. Subject to the signal of the trigger sensor a chemical sensor reading is taken for detecting one or more of a presence and a concentration of the at least one analyte in a gas supplied to the chemical sensor. | 12-26-2013 |
20140032153 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a method for operating a portable electronic device comprising a chemical sensor, at least one reference reading is taken by the chemical sensor at least one predetermined point in time. At least one compensation value is determined based on at least one reference value wherein each reference value is derived from a result of a corresponding reference reading. A result of an operational reading of the chemical sensor is modified by the at least one compensation value. | 01-30-2014 |
20140084390 | CHEMICAL SENSOR - In a method for manufacturing a chemical sensor with multiple sensor cells, a substrate is provided and an expansion inhibitor is applied to the substrate for preventing a sensitive material to be applied to an area on the substrate for building a sensitive film of a sensor cell to expand from said area. The sensitive material is provided and the sensitive film is built by contactless dispensing the sensitive material to said area. | 03-27-2014 |
20140134053 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH CHEMICAL SENSOR - A portable electronic device is described with a housing, a chemical sensor arranged inside the housing and adapted to measure a property of at least one analyte, and a duct terminating at an opening in the housing for exposing the chemical sensor to the fluid to be analyzed, and an actuator to generate a flow within the duct. | 05-15-2014 |
20140209983 | INTEGRATED METAL OXIDE CHEMICAL SENSOR - A chemical sensor is described with at least one layer of metal oxide arranged between two electrodes with the length of the layer of metal oxide between the electrodes being less than 50 microns, wherein at least one interface layer is formed between the surface of at least one of the electrodes and the layer of metal oxide and wherein the interface layer lowers the contact resistance between the electrodes and the layer of metal oxide by facilitating transport of charge carriers across layer boundaries. | 07-31-2014 |
20140212979 | DIFFUSION BASED METAL OXIDE GAS SENSOR - A measuring device is provided for determining the type and/or concentration a gaseous analyte from a set of analytes in a gaseous carrier. It comprises a housing having a passage to a cavity. A gas sensor with a heated metal-oxide sensing layer is arranged in the cavity. In order to gain a better understanding of the type of the analyte, diffusion effects are exploited by taking into account that the diffusion process through the passage as well as the catalytic reaction rate at the metal-oxide sensing layer depend on the type of the analyte. These material parameters can be determined by taking several measurements in a non-steady state of the concentration of the analyte within the cavity or while varying the reaction rate. | 07-31-2014 |
20140234172 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH BREATH ANALZER - A breath analyzer is described with at least one chemical sensor sensitive to the concentration of a component in a sample of exhaled breath including a compensator for compensating for the effect of variations in the amount of exhaled breath between the user and the sensor location with the chemical sensor being integrated into a portable electronic device, particularly with the sensor being located in an air duct with an opening to the exterior of the housing of the analyser with the total area of the opening being sufficiently small to restrict effectively mass transport between the exterior and the sensor and/or wherein the compensation includes the compensation for different responses of sensors. | 08-21-2014 |
20140264642 | GAS SENSOR - A gas sensor comprises a set of one or more sensor cells (SC) and a substrate ( | 09-18-2014 |
20140308770 | CHEMICAL SENSOR - In a method for manufacturing a chemical sensor with multiple sensor cells, a substrate is provided and an expansion inhibitor is applied to the substrate for preventing a sensitive material to be applied to an area on the substrate for building a sensitive film of a sensor cell to expand from said area. The sensitive material is provided and the sensitive film is built by contactless dispensing the sensitive material to said area. | 10-16-2014 |
20140377877 | CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENTS WITH A MOBILE DEVICE - A portable electronic device comprises a chemical sensor that is sensitive to a concentration of a chemical analyte and at least two auxiliary sensors that are sensitive to parameters that are different from the concentration of the chemical analyte. The portable electronic device comprises a control device that receives signals from the chemical sensor and from the auxiliary sensors at a plurality of points in time distributed over a measurement period and correlates the time dependencies of these signals to obtain a corrected reading of the first chemical sensor. The portable electronic device may be employed for breath analysis. | 12-25-2014 |
20150033827 | INTEGRATED METAL OXIDE CHEMICAL SENSOR - A chemical sensor ( | 02-05-2015 |
20150050430 | ANNEALING PROCESS FOR INTEGRATED GAS SENSORS - A method of manufacturing an integrated metal oxide gas sensor is described including the steps of depositing a composition with metal oxide particles or precursors thereof at the desired location on a substrate including electronic components followed by a step of heating the substrate whereby the heating step is designed such that it creates a local temperature difference between the location of the deposited composition and the location of more temperature sensitive parts of the sensor such as the electronic components and is interrupted before the temperature of the substrate at the location of the electronic components reaches a threshold above which the more sensitive parts can be damaged. | 02-19-2015 |