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US 2010/0073135 A1Published application
Sensors having gap based sensing devices and methods of making and using the same
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsRadislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo, William Guy Morris, Cheryl Margaret Surman, Katharine Dovidenko, Tracy Lynn Paxon
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Abstract
A sensor is provided. The sensor comprises at least one sensing device comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, and a gap defined as a distance between one or more facing inner surfaces of the first and second electrodes, wherein the gap distance at least in part determines a threshold of one or more sensed parameters, and an antenna in operative association with the sensing device.
Claims26
A sensor, comprising:
- at least one sensing device comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, and a gap defined as a distance between one or more facing inner surfaces of the first and second electrodes, wherein the gap distance at least in part determines a threshold of one or more sensed parameters;
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- an antenna in operative association with the sensing device.
A radio frequency based sensor, comprising:
- a sensing gap defined by two or more electrodes;
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- an antenna in operative association with the sensing gap and the electrodes.
A method of making a sensor, comprising:
- providing an antenna having one or more turns;
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- forming a sensing gap comprising first and second electrodes and defined by a distance between one or more facing inner surfaces of the first and second electrodes, wherein the gap distance at least in part determines a threshold of one or more sensed parameters, and wherein the sensing gap is in operative association with the antenna.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.