US 12,298,224 B2
Advanced corrosion bioreactor testing apparatus
Jeongmin Ahn, Manlius, NY (US); and Thomas Welles, Syracuse, NY (US)
Assigned to SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, Syracuse, NY (US)
Filed by Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (US)
Filed on Mar. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/120,246.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/318,416, filed on Mar. 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0314303 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G01N 17/00 (2006.01); A61F 2/46 (2006.01); G01N 3/60 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 17/002 (2013.01) [A61F 2/468 (2013.01); G01N 3/60 (2013.01); G01N 17/006 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A testing apparatus, comprising:
a uniaxial load device having a mounting base for accepting a medical implant and orienting the medical implant along a predetermined axis, a support plate positioned under the uniaxial load device and moveable to apply a force to the medical implant, a load cell positioned above and oppositely to the support plate to measure any force applied to the medical implant, and a set of differential variable reluctance transducers positioned to measure motion of the implant;
a chamber enclosing the uniaxial load device and including a fluid therein that will completely submerge an implant positioned in the uniaxial load device;
an array of near field antenna positioned circumferentially around the chamber;
a faraday cage surrounding the chamber and isolating the uniaxial load device from environmental electromagnetic radiation; and
a multi-frequency generator coupled to the array of near field antenna.