Personal airborne particle monitor with quantum dots

J Kent, P Manautou, A Tien - US Patent 9,933,351, 2018 - Google Patents
An airborne biological particle monitoring device collects particles floating in air. The monitor
includes a camera sensor, illumination source, and quantum-dot illumination source. The …

Airborne particle monitor with orientation control

P Manautou, J Kent - US Patent 10,330,578, 2019 - Google Patents
A monitor includes a base, a cylindrical housing, rotatably connected to the base, and
including an air-intake slot, and a collection media, a motor configured to rotate the …

Particle collection media cartridge with tensioning mechanism

P Manautou - US Patent 10,684,209, 2020 - Google Patents
An apparatus for collection and detection of airborne particles includes an optical imaging
system having an exposure time, a particle inspection zone, and a flexible substrate with an …

Spore state discrimination

P Manautou, J Kent - US Patent 10,458,990, 2019 - Google Patents
A flow of air including a fungal spore is directed to a collection cartridge. The spore is
trapped within the cartridge and positioned within a field of view of a camera sensor. A UV …

Protecting an optical particle sensor from particulate desposits by thermophoresis

DP Kelly, MM Scheja, CR Ronda, K Karakaya… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
The invention provides a sensor device which comprises an input flow channel (10) for
receiving a gas flow with entrained matter to be sensed. A thermophoretic arrangement (14 …

Thermophoretic particle detection system with variable channel geometry

D Woolsey, DW Burns - US Patent 10,921,224, 2021 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A system for detecting and analyzing particles in an air stream includes an
inlet, a particle concentrator and a particle discriminator having an air channel with a cross …

Integrated detection device, in particular detector of particles such as particulates or alpha particles

S Loi, A Pagani - US Patent 10,132,934, 2018 - Google Patents
A detection device is formed in a body of semiconductor material having a first face, a
second face, and a cavity. A detection area formed in the cavity, and a gas pump is …

Particle sensor and particle sensing method having a series of sensor elements

MJ Jongerius, K Karakaya - US Patent 10,520,413, 2019 - Google Patents
Presented is a particle sensing system is for providing particle distribution information in a
fluid flow in which thermophoretic particle movement is induced (10) towards a sensor (12) …

Particulate matter sensor unit

JH Lee, JH Cho, K Chun, S Kang, K Jang - US Patent 9,759,675, 2017 - Google Patents
A particulate matter (PM) sensor unit may include an exhaust line where exhaust gas
passes, and a PM sensor that may be disposed at one side of the exhaust line and that …

Airborne particle detection system with thermophoretic scanning

D Woolsey, DW Burns - US Patent 10,948,392, 2021 - Google Patents
A system for analyzing particles in an air stream includes a first heater element configured to
deflect particles in an interior region of the air stream towards a peripheral wall of an air …