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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2003
Applicant:
Inventor:
Erik Cardelius, Stockholm, SE;
Assignee:
Maquet Critical Care AB, Solna, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/902 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/902 ;
Abstract
An acoustic gas monitor has a measurement chamber into which a reference gas of known composition is received and is provided with a wall section for the selective transmission of a gaseous substance to be monitored between the reference gas internal the chamber and a host gas externally of the chamber. An acoustic velocity meter is arranged to supply to an analyzer a signal indicative of an acoustic velocity within the mixture of reference gas and gaseous substance in the chamber. The analyzer being programmed to derive, from the velocity measurement made within the single chamber, information relating to the level of the gaseous substance to be monitored.