Piping assembly
AssigneeCooler Master Co., Ltd.
InventorsWen-Hung CHEN, Chun-Hsien CHEN, Yang-Chun HSIAO
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Abstract
A piping assembly includes a tube having a first end and a second end, a first leak-detection wire and a second leak-detection wire that are embedded within the tube during a molding process, a resistor electrically connected between first ends of the leak-detection wires, and a monitoring device electrically connected to second ends of the leak-detection wires to monitor a resistance of a leak detection circuit formed by first leak-detection wire, the resistor, and the second leak-detection wire.
Claims21
A piping assembly, comprising:
- a tube having a first end and a second end;
- a first leak-detection wire and a second leak-detection wire that are embedded within the tube during a molding process;
- a resistor electrically connected between first ends of the leak-detection wires;
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- a monitoring device electrically connected to second ends of the leak-detection wires to monitor a resistance of a leak detection circuit formed by the first leak-detection wire, the resistor, and the second leak-detection wire.
A method of detecting leakage in a piping assembly, the method comprising:
- forming a tube that is configured to allow liquids to flow through;
- embedding a first leak-detection wire and a second leak-detection wire into the tube of the piping assembly during a molding process of forming the tube;
- connecting first ends of the first leak-detection wire and the second leak-detection wire to a resistor;
- connecting second ends of the first leak-detection wire and the second leak-detection wire to a monitoring device to form a leak-detection circuit;
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- monitoring a resistance of the leak-detection circuit by the monitoring device, wherein:
- when the tube is undamaged, the resistance measured by the monitoring device reflects a first resistance, and
- when a rupture occurs in the tube, the liquids seep into the rupture site and the resistance measured by the monitoring device reflects a second resistance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.