Method of making a carbon sensor electrode

• US 5,704,118 A
• Filed: 03/28/1995
• Issued: 01/06/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Agency for Industrial Science and Technology
• Original Assignee: Agency for Industrial Science and Technology
• Inventors: Negishi, Akira, Kaneko, Hiroko, Nozaki, Ken
• Primary Examiner(s): ECHOLS, PERCY W
• Application Number:
  US08/411,525
• Time in Patent Office: 1,015 Days
• Field of Search: 29/874, 204/290 R, 204/294
• US Class Current: 29/874
• CPC Class Codes: C12Q 1/001 Enzyme electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/308 at least partially made of carbon
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49204 Contact or terminal manufacturing

Abstract

A process for producing a carbon sensor for measuring a composition, includes (a) providing first and second carbon electrodes each comprised of a bundle of linear, thin carbon members; (b) surrounding the first carbon electrode by dipping the first carbon electrode in a solution comprised of a reactive substance which reacts chemically with the composition to be measured; (c) disposing the first carbon electrode and the solution in a cylindrical ion permeable membrane to hold the solution in the first carbon electrode as well as between the first carbon electrode and the cylindrical ion permeable membrane; (d) positioning the cylindrical ion permeable membrane including the first carbon electrode and the solution in an insulating tubular member; and (e) disposing the second carbon electrode between the insulating tubular member and the cylindrical ion permeable membrane. Alternatively, the solution may be poured into a cylindrical ion permeable membrane and the first carbon electrode may be inserted into the cylindrical ion permeable membrane to hold the solution between the first carbon electrode and the ion permeable membrane and thereby surround the bundle.

Claims

1. A process for producing a carbon sensor for measuring a composition, comprising:

a. providing first and second carbon electrodes each comprised of a bundle of linear, thin carbon members;

b. surrounding the first carbon electrode by dipping the first carbon electrode in a solution comprised of a reactive substance which reacts chemically with the composition to be measured;

c. disposing the first carbon electrode and the solution in a cylindrical ion permeable membrane to hold the solution in the first carbon electrode as well as between the first carbon electrode and the cylindrical ion permeable membrane;

d. positioning the cylindrical ion permeable membrane including the first carbon electrode and the solution in an insulating tubular member; and

e. disposing the second carbon electrode between the insulating tubular member and the cylindrical ion permeable membrane.

2. The process for producing a carbon sensor electrode as claimed in claim 1 wherein the first carbon electrode consists of a bundle of many linear thin carbon members.

3. The process for producing a carbon sensor electrode as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first carbon electrode is composed of said bundle of linear, thin carbon members which are selected from the group consisting of a twisted carbon yarn of carbon fibers, a thin carbon rod, a bundle-form carbon composed of twisted carbon yarns or thin carbon rods, and a carbon cloth of twisted carbon yarns, a bundle of linear, thin carbon members.

4. The process for producing a carbon sensor electrode as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second carbon electrode is composed of said bundle of linear, thin carbon members which are selected from the group consisting of a twisted carbon yarn of carbon fibers, a thin carbon rod, a bundle-form carbon composed of twisted carbon yarns or thin carbon rods, and a carbon cloth of twisted carbon yarns.

5. The process for producing a carbon sensor electrode as claimed in claim 1, wherein the insulating tubular member is composed of an insulating tube.

6. The process for producing a carbon sensor electrode as claimed in claim 1, wherein the insulating tubular member is formed by wrapping an insulating sheet around the carbon electrode holding the solution containing the reactive substance.

7. A process for producing a carbon sensor electrode for measuring a composition, comprising:

a. providing first and second carbon electrodes each comprised of a bundle of linear, thin carbon members;

b. pouring a solution comprised of a reactive substance which reacts chemically with the composition to be measured into a cylindrical ion permeable membrane;

c. inserting the first carbon electrode into the cylindrical ion permeable membrane to hold the solution between the first carbon electrode and the ion permeable membrane and thereby surround the bundle; and

d. disposing the cylindrical ion permeable membrane with the first carbon electrode and the solution into an insulating tubular member; and

e. disposing the second carbon electrode between the insulating tubular member and the cylindrical ion permeable membrane.

8. The process for producing a carbon sensor electrode as claimed in claim 7, wherein the first carbon electrode consists of a bundle of many linear thin carbon members.