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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:
May. 13, 2003

Filed:

Apr. 19, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

Wilfried Lerch, Dornstadt, DE;

Markus Hauf, Ichenhausen, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 5/00 ;
Abstract

A method and apparatus for calibrating temperature measurements that are taken with a first radiation detector for measuring thermal radiation given off by a reference substrate are provided. The method includes the steps of heating the reference substrate, which carries at least one reference material having a known melting point temperature, to or over the melting point temperature and measuring the thermal radiation of the reference substrate during the heating step, during a cooling period that follows the heating, or during both the heating and the cooling periods. The method also includes the step of correlating a measurement plateau of the thermal radiation which occurs during the measuring step with the known melting point temperature.


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