Thoratec Laboratories Corporation

Kenneth J Baker

Keith Evan Buck

Robert B Fraser

Clive Miles

Irving C Chase

A flow controller primarily for breathing gas analysis has a gas flow circuit leading from a breathing air inlet to a gas analyzer and to a vacuum source. Another gas is bled into the circuit between the breathing air inlet and a point upstream of the vacuum source. Such other gas is precluded from flowing upstream in the circuit toward the gas analyzer by making the intervening flow path or conduit of suitable dimensions to have a Peclet number at least equal to 4 and preferably greater than 4 and about 6.

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Moraga, CA, United States of America

Kenneth J Baker