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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:
Jan. 17, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2012
Applicants:

The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JP;

Omron Corporation, Kyoto-shi, JP;

Inventors:

Isao Shimoyama, Tokyo, JP;

Kiyoshi Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;

Tetsuo Kan, Tokyo, JP;

Yusuke Takei, Tokyo, JP;

Hidetoshi Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;

Koutaro Ishizu, Tokyo, JP;

Masahito Honda, Tokyo, JP;

Assignees:

The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JP;

Omron Corporation, Kyoto-shi, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/27 (2006.01); G01N 21/552 (2014.01); G01N 33/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/27 (2013.01); G01N 21/553 (2013.01); G01N 33/004 (2013.01); G01N 33/0036 (2013.01); G01N 2201/067 (2013.01); G01N 2201/0612 (2013.01);
Abstract

A gas sensor is proposed, which can detect a gas by a novel configuration while reduction in size is achieved. The gas sensor () does not need a light absorption path as in a prior art so that the size can be reduced correspondingly. Further, in the gas sensor (), a gas is absorbed in an ionic liquid (IL), and a dielectric constant of the ionic liquid (IL) that changes by absorbing the gas can be measured according to a change in light intensity that occurs by a surface plasmon resonance phenomenon in a metal layer (). Thus, the gas sensor () including the novel configuration that can detect a gas based on the change in the light intensity can be realized.


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