G01L 21/10
Vacuum gauges: by measuring variations in the heat conductivity of the medium
Official title: by measuring variations in the heat conductivity of the medium, the pressure of which is to be measured
G01L21/10 (Vacuum gauges: by measuring variations in the heat conductivity of the medium) appears on 122 US grants and 109 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Electrical, mechanical, computing, and/or other devices formed of extremely low resistance materials24 Mar 2026US 12,588,427 B2Ambature, Inc.
- Operating method for a group of pressure sensors17 Feb 2026US 12,553,786 B2Inficon GmbH
- Thermal conductivity vacuum gauge and thermal compensation assembly13 Jan 2026US 12,523,561 B2Edwards Limited
- Thermal conductivity vacuum gauge assembly2 Dec 2025US 12,487,141 B2Edwards Limited
- Method for operating a group of pressure sensors25 Nov 2025US 12,480,831 B2Inficon GmbH
- Electrical, Mechanical, Computing and/or Other Devices Formed of Extremely Low Resistance Materials13 Aug 2026US 2026/0239890 A1Ambature, Inc.
- Electrical, Mechanical, Computing and/or Other Devices Formed of High Temperature Superconducting Materials13 Aug 2026US 2026/0239891 A1Ambature, Inc.
- Method for manufacturing filaments for use in pirani gauges as well as pirani gauge with such a filament21 May 2026US 2026/0142062 A1Inficon GmbH
- Electrical, mechanical, computing, and/or other devices formed of extremely low resistance materials20 Mar 2025US 2025/0098551 A1Ambature, Inc.
- Thermal Conductivity Gauge13 Mar 2025US 2025/0085180 A1MKS Instruments, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Thermocouple vacuum gauge370US 8,047,711 B2Heinz Ploechinger · 2011
- Microscopic size, thermal conductivity type, air or gas absolute pressure sensor77US 4,682,503 AHoneywell Inc. · 1987
- Pressure transducer assembly77US 6,553,841 B1Helix Technology Corporation · 2003
- MEMS capacitive pressure sensor65US 9,772,245 B2ams International AG · 2017
- Fiber optic thermal anemometer52US 4,621,929 ALuxtron Corporation · 1986