Thread-Based Oxygen Sensor
OwnerSameer Sonkusale, Junfei Xia +1inventors
InventorsSameer Sonkusale, Junfei Xia, Francois Dufay
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Abstract
An oxygen sensor for sensing dissolved oxygen concentration in tissue includes an electrochemical sensor comprising first and second conductive threads having proximal sections connected to a potentiostat. The first thread forms a cathode, and the second thread forms an anode.
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An apparatus comprising an oxygen sensor for sensing dissolved oxygen concentration in tissue, said oxygen sensor comprising an electrochemical sensor comprising first and second threads having proximal sections connected to a potentiostat, at least one of said threads being a thread that wicks liquid in which said oxygen is dissolved, said first thread forming a cathode of said electrochemical sensor and said second thread forming an anode of said electrochemical sensor.
An apparatus comprising an oxygen sensor for sensing dissolved oxygen concentration in tissue, said oxygen sensor comprising an anode and a cathode, wherein said anode comprises a thread that wicks liquid that contains said dissolved oxygen, wherein said cathode comprises a wire, and wherein said thread and said wire having distal sections that connect to a potentiostat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.