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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2007
Applicant:
Richard Lee Fink, Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
Richard Lee Fink, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 17/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A smoke detector replaces the americium source of alpha particles with a field emission device using carbon nanotubes as the field emitters, or some other field emitter, in order to provide an ionization of the air potentially caring smoke particles through the smoke detector.