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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024

Filed:

Nov. 05, 2020
Applicant:

Lumileds Llc, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hisashi Masui, Newark, CA (US);

Oleg Borisovich Shchekin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Franklin Chiang, Campbell, CA (US);

Assignee:

Lumileds LLC, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/47 (2006.01); G01N 21/61 (2006.01); G01N 33/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/61 (2013.01); G01N 21/47 (2013.01); G01N 33/0004 (2013.01); G01N 33/004 (2013.01); G01N 33/0047 (2013.01); G01N 2201/0631 (2013.01); G01N 2201/0636 (2013.01);
Abstract

A gas sensing system can allow a gas sample to permeate hollow spaces within a porous scattering material. The porous scattering material can be substantially transparent at an illumination wavelength. An emitter can illuminate the porous scattering material and the gas sample with light having a spectrum that includes the illumination wavelength. A sensor can detect a level of light that has traversed the porous scattering material. Using, for example, the Beer-Lambert Law, the system can determine a concentration of the gas material in the gas sample. The scattering can greatly increase an optical path length through the porous scattering material, compared with a linear dimension of the porous scattering material. The increased optical path length can allow a gas chamber to shrink in size, thereby decreasing a size of the gas sensing system without a corresponding decrease in a sensitivity and/or an accuracy of the system.


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