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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 1995
Filed:
May. 21, 1993
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for independent monitoring of a flow-through quantity and, potentially, of a concentration of a gas flow that is extremely small in comparison to a respiratory gas flow is provided. The valve for the control of this small gas flow can not be controlled via the overall gas flow. In order to be able to simply and reliably monitor the flow-through quantity and the concentration of this small gas flow without a gas analyzer and independently of gas flow regulators that are usually present, it is provided that the small gas flow be separately measured and compared to a value derived from the respiratory gas flow. Given the presence of prescribable criteria, an alarm is triggered and the flow-through quantity of the small gas flow is, for example, interrupted.