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Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 13, 2022
Applicant:

Ateq, Les Clayes-sous-Bois, FR;

Inventor:

Davy Leboucher, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);

Assignee:

ATEQ, Les Clayes-sous-Bois, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 3/002 (2013.01); G01M 3/007 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus for automatic leak detection, including a chamber to enclose a test specimen. A vacuum pump is in selectable fluid communication via an adiabatic noise cancellation valve with the chamber. A pressure transducer determines a pressure in the test specimen and transmits a pressure signal to a controller. The controller is to control the adiabatic noise cancellation valve to cause the vacuum pump to draw a vacuum from a space between the test specimen and the chamber thereby creating an adiabatic noise cancelling condition in which a temperature of the test specimen is stabilized. The controller is to control a flow of a test gas into the test specimen, and to determine a pressure decay rate from the pressure signal. The controller is to determine if the test specimen meets a leak test specification based on the pressure decay rate under the adiabatic noise cancelling condition.


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