Electricity: measuring and testing – Impedance – admittance or other quantities representative of... – Lumped type parameters
Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-31
2008-10-28
Gutierrez, Diego (Department: 2858)
Electricity: measuring and testing
Impedance, admittance or other quantities representative of...
Lumped type parameters
C324S691000, C324S713000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07443177
ABSTRACT:
A method of determining material parameters associated with a conductor using four points includes injecting and extracting alternating current into the plate using current-carrying wires operatively connected to two of the four points, measuring potential drop between the remaining two of the four points, and calculating the material parameters. The conductor can be of a homogenous material, a stratified material, or other type of material. The conductor can have any number of geometries, including that of a plate, a cylinder, a tube, a stratified cylinder or other shape.
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Gutierrez Diego
Iowa State University & Research Foundation, Inc.
McKee Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C.
Zhu John
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