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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
John Houldsworth, Reston, VA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01K / ; G01K / ; G01K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
374181 ; 374134 ; 374178 ; 374112 ; 374113 ;
Abstract
An improved method and apparatus for sensing a cold junction temperature, wherein two sensors are located near the cold junction temperature, the temperatures at the two sensors are measured, the heat flow between the two sensors and one of the two sensors and the cold junction is constrained to be equal, and the thermal impedances between each of the two sensors and the cold junction is maintained constant. The cold junction temperature is a weighted difference of the two temperatures at the two sensors and the weighting factor depends on the ratio of the thermal impedance between the two sensors and the thermal impedance between the first sensor and the cold junction.