US 11,988,564 B2
Autonomous on-board temperature measurement device and method implemented by this device
Dimitri Tainoff, Grenoble (FR); Olivier Bourgeois, Saint Laurent du Pont (FR); and Anaïs Proudhom, Grenoble (FR)
Assigned to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, Paris (FR); and UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, Saint Martin d'Heres (FR)
Appl. No. 17/271,534
Filed by CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, Paris (FR); and UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, Saint Martin d'Heres (FR)
PCT Filed Aug. 30, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/073274
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 25, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/048894, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 12, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1857905 (FR), filed on Sep. 3, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0255045 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. G01K 1/14 (2021.01); B61K 9/04 (2006.01); G01K 1/02 (2021.01); G01K 1/024 (2021.01); G01K 7/02 (2021.01); G01K 13/08 (2006.01); H10N 10/17 (2023.01); H10N 10/80 (2023.01)
CPC G01K 1/14 (2013.01) [B61K 9/04 (2013.01); G01K 1/024 (2013.01); G01K 7/02 (2013.01); G01K 13/08 (2013.01); H10N 10/17 (2023.02); H10N 10/80 (2023.02); G01K 2215/00 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A temperature measurement device comprising:
a temperature sensor arranged to measure a temperature;
a thermo-generator forming, with said temperature sensor, a surface so-called measurement surface, said thermo-generator being configured to convert thermal energy of said measurement surface into electrical energy and said sensor being arranged to measure a temperature of a sample in contact with the measurement surface;
an electronic board arranged to receive the electrical energy converted by the thermo-generator and power said temperature sensor with at least some of this electrical energy;
the electronic board is arranged at a non-zero distance from said measurement surface in a direction (A) perpendicular to said measurement surface;
the temperature measurement device further comprises a heat sink positioned vertically between the electronic board and the thermo-generator; and
a box enclosing the electronic board and the heat sink.