Managing a heat transfer characteristic in a temperature control chamber
AssigneeAgilent Technologies, Inc.
InventorsLena Höninger, Uwe Effelsberg
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Abstract
A temperature control chamber includes a heat impact unit configured for heat impacting a sensor unit in accordance with a heat profile, the sensor unit configured for sensing heat impact response data over time in response to being heat impacted with the heat profile, and a determining unit configured for determining information indicative of a heat transfer characteristic in the temperature control chamber based on the sensed heat impact response data.
Claims20
A temperature control chamber, comprising:
- a casing delimiting an interior and configured to enclose therein a sample separation unit to be temperature-controlled;
- a sensor unit disposed in the interior separate from and outside the sample separation unit;
- a heat impact unit configured to heat impact the sensor unit in accordance with a heat profile,
- wherein the sensor unit is configured to sense heat impact response data over time in response to being heat impacted in accordance with the heat profile;
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- a determining unit configured to determine information indicative of a heat transfer characteristic in the interior based on the sensed heat impact response data.
A temperature control chamber, comprising:
- a casing delimiting an interior and configured to enclose therein a sample separation unit to be temperature-controlled;
- a sensor unit disposed in the interior separate from and outside the sample separation unit and configured to sense sensor data indicative of a heat transfer characteristic in the interior;
- a heat transfer impact unit configured to impact the heat transfer characteristic in the interior;
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- a control unit configured to control the heat transfer impact unit to adjust the heat transfer characteristic in the interior to comply with a target heat transfer characteristic, based on the sensor data.
A temperature control chamber, comprising:
- a casing delimiting an interior and configured to enclose therein a sample separation unit to be temperature-controlled;
- a sensor unit disposed in the interior;
- a heat impact unit configured to heat impact the sensor unit in accordance with a heat profile,
- wherein the sensor unit is configured to sense heat impact response data over time in response to being heat impacted in accordance with the heat profile;
- a determining unit configured to determine information indicative of a heat transfer characteristic in the interior based on the sensed heat impact response data;
- a heat transfer impact unit configured to impact the heat transfer characteristic in the interior;
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- a control unit configured to control the heat transfer impact unit to adjust the heat transfer characteristic in the interior based on the determined information.
A temperature control chamber, comprising:
- a casing delimiting an interior and configured to enclose therein a sample separation unit to be temperature-controlled;
- a sensor unit disposed in the interior and configured to sense sensor data indicative of a heat transfer characteristic in the interior;
- a heat transfer impact unit configured to impact the heat transfer characteristic in the interior;
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- a control unit configured to control the heat transfer impact unit to adjust the heat transfer characteristic in the interior to comply with a target heat transfer characteristic, based on the sensor data, wherein the target heat transfer characteristic comprises a target value of a Heat Transfer Coefficient in the temperature control chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.