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US 2021/0267478 A1Published application
Apparatus and method for collecting a breath sample using a container with controllable volume
AssigneePicomole Inc.
InventorChristopher Quentin Purves
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for collecting a breath sample are provided. The apparatus has a breath input interface configured to receive exhaled breath, a container connected to the breath input interface for receiving at least some of the exhaled breath, the container having a cavity with a volume that is controllable, and at least one controller configured to control the volume of the cavity to increase at a volume increase rate that is at most equal to a flow rate of the exhaled breath received by the breath input interface.
Claims21
An apparatus for collecting a breath sample, comprising:
- a breath input interface configured to receive exhaled breath;
- a container connected to the breath input interface for receiving at least some of the exhaled breath, the container having a cavity with a volume that is controllable;
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- at least one controller configured to control the volume of the cavity to increase at a volume increase rate that is at most equal to a flow rate of the exhaled breath received by the breath input interface.
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