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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. 20, 2003

Filed:

Dec. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:

Lars Stormbom, Helsinki, FI;

Assignee:

Vaisala Oyj, Helsinki, FI;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 1/910 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 1/910 ;
Abstract

A method and system relating to an improvement in measuring accuracy of a gas concentration sensor, the method comprising the steps of measuring a parameter of the sensor, the parameter being a resistance or a capacitance, that is sensitive to the gas or its concentration being measured, and simultaneously changing the temperature of the sensor in a cyclic manner. The parameter of the sensor being measured is measured more than two times or continuously during each heating cycle. The measured parameter value is filtered to obtain a signal component associated with the fundamental frequency of the heating cycle for use at a later step, and the thus filtered signal component is used in the correction and/or calibration of actual output signal of the sensor.


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