Method and apparatus for testing gases, particularly breath alcohol
CA 2104090 C · Owner: Intoximeters, Inc. · Inventors: Forrester, Glenn C.
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A method and apparatus for measuring the concentration of breath alcohol or other reactants is provided in which a breath sample is introduced to a fuel cell, wherein the number of electrons from the fuel cell resulting from oxidation of the alcohol in the breath rises to a peak and thereafter falls to a substantially steady minimum base to form a curve. The present method is based on the discovery that this curve regardless of, reactant concentration or age of fuel cell is a log-normal, distribution curve.
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- Filed August 13, 1993 and granted November 4, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 13, 2013.
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