Internal data acquisition device for vacuum furnace
AssigneeFluke Corporation
InventorStewart Griffiths
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Abstract
There is provided a measurement apparatus for a vacuum furnace, comprising a data acquisition device, comprising a sensor interface operable to electrically couple one or more sensors to the data acquisition device, and a thermally conductive layer disposed on a first surface of the data acquisition device and to provide a thermally conductive interface between the first surface of the data acquisition device and a cooled internal surface of the vacuum furnace.
Claims20
A measurement apparatus for a vacuum furnace, comprising:
- a data acquisition device, comprising a sensor interface operable to electrically couple one or more sensors to the data acquisition device;
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- a thermally conductive layer disposed on a first surface of the data acquisition device and to provide a thermally conductive interface between the first surface of the data acquisition device and a cooled internal surface of the vacuum furnace.
A method for configuring data acquisition devices, comprising:
- positioning a data acquisition device proximate a cooled internal surface of a vacuum furnace, the data acquisition device comprising a sensor interface operable to electrically couple one or more sensors to the data acquisition device;
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- providing a thermally conductive layer disposed on a first surface of the data acquisition device which provides a thermally conductive interface between the first surface of the data acquisition device and the cooled internal surface of the vacuum furnace.
A method for data acquisition from a vacuum furnace, comprising:
- maintaining a temperature of a data acquisition device of a measurement apparatus positioned inside the vacuum furnace below a threshold temperature, wherein the data acquisition device comprises a sensor interface operable to electrically couple one or more sensors positioned in a hot zone of the vacuum furnace to the data acquisition device, and wherein maintaining the temperature of the data acquisition device comprises dissipating heat, via thermal coupling, from the data acquisition device to a cooled internal surface of the vacuum furnace, via a thermally conductive layer disposed on a first surface of the data acquisition device which provides a thermally conductive interface between the first surface of the data acquisition device and the cooled internal surface of the vacuum furnace;
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- acquiring, by the data acquisition device, sensor data from the one or more sensors positioned in the hot zone of the vacuum furnace as the temperature of the data acquisition device is being maintained below the threshold temperature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.