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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:
Dec. 17, 2002

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

Yoshihiro Aoyama, Kyoto, JP;

Junichi Kita, Kyoto, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 3/3497 ; G01N 3/348 ; G01N 7/00 ; C12Q 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 3/3497 ; G01N 3/348 ; G01N 7/00 ; C12Q 1/00 ;
Abstract

A sample gas is introduced into a collecting pipe filled with a collecting agent to collect odor components therein, and a gas, such as nitrogen gas, is introduced into the collecting pipe to remove moisture and so on. Then, a heater is heated to raise a temperature of the collecting pipe so that a part of the odor components adsorbed by the collecting agent is separated therefrom, and then, a carrier gas is supplied to the collecting pipe to send the separated odor components to a sensor. After a predetermined time has passed, the heater is further heated to send the separated odor components to the sensor. The heater may be further increased. Thus, an output information of the gas sensor in one cycle of measurement can be increased.


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