Portable gas detector and its cradle

• US 6,606,897 B1
• Filed: 10/10/2000
• Issued: 08/19/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Riken Keiki Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Riken Keiki Company Limited
• Inventors: Koyano, Juniti, Tajima, Shuji, Kitamura, Masahide
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Hezron
• Assistant Examiner(s): CYGAN, MICHAEL T
• Application Number:
  US09/684,320
• Time in Patent Office: 1,043 Days
• Field of Search: 73/232, 73/233, 73/310.5, 73/310.6, 734/31, 738/665
• US Class Current: 73/23.2
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2001/2276 Personal monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/0006 Calibrating gas analysers
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/0009 General constructional details of gas analysers, e.g. portable test equipment devices for withdrawing samples in the gaseous state G01N1/22

Abstract

A portable gas detector comprises a casing proper 1 adapted to be attached to the human body. The casing proper 1 has multiple openings to accommodate gas sensors 5 on one side and charging terminals 38 and a communication window 14 on the other. Calibration of the gas sensors and securing of power supply are easy to achieve.

Claims

1. A portable gas detector comprising a casing attachable to the human body, wherein said casing comprises a container proper and a cover made of high polymer, with part of a surface of said container proper being covered with a sheet of electrically conductive material, said casing having openings on one side to accommodate multiple gas sensors capable of detecting various kinds of gases, wherein the gas sensors are attached by a common sensor-fastening frame so as to be detachable, and said casing having charging and communication terminals on another side.

2. A portable gas detector according to claim 1, wherein said charging terminals, secondary cells and a current-limiting resistor are mounted on a circuit board, with said secondary cells and said current-limiting resistor being contained in a power supply unit covered with top and bottom covers of insulating material having means for fastening to said casing.

3. A portable gas detector according to claim 2, in which said charging terminals are exposed through windows provided in said casing.

4. A portable gas detector according to claim 1, wherein a common dust-catching filter is fastened to gas intakes in said openings by means of a fastening frame.

5. A portable gas detector comprising:

a casing attachable to the human body, said casing having openings on one side to accommodate multiple gas sensors capable of detecting various kinds of gases, wherein the gas sensors are attached by a common sensor-fastening frame so as to be detachable, and said casing having charging and communication terminals on another side;

band receptacles on two other sides of said casing; and

a fastener comprising a resilient leaf having one end thereof cantilevered to a base plate, wherein said fastener is fastened to said band receptacles for fastening bands so as to be detachable.