US 12,332,152 B2
Methods of obtaining a biological sample representative of a passenger cabin on an aircraft using an air cyclonic collector via a cabin exhaust valve
Eric Surawski, Hebron, CT (US); Kenneth Crawford, Manchester, CT (US); Donald E. Army, Enfield, CT (US); Kevin P. Walsh, Enfield, CT (US); Brian R. Shea, Windsor, CT (US); and Tony Ho, Glastonbury, CT (US)
Assigned to B/E AEROSPACE, INC., Winston Salem, NC (US)
Filed by B/E AEROSPACE, INC., Winston Salem, NC (US)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/518,325.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/114,330, filed on Nov. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/114,339, filed on Nov. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/114,350, filed on Nov. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/114,064, filed on Nov. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/114,366, filed on Nov. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/114,157, filed on Nov. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/114,386, filed on Nov. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/114,400, filed on Nov. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0057303 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G01N 1/22 (2006.01); B64D 13/00 (2006.01); G01N 1/40 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 1/2247 (2013.01) [B64D 13/00 (2013.01); G01N 1/2205 (2013.01); G01N 1/2273 (2013.01); G01N 1/40 (2013.01); G01N 2800/26 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of monitoring aircraft air comprising:
removing a conical collector through a cabin exhaust valve of the aircraft, wherein ambient cabin air has been driven from the cabin over a reagent fluid within the conical collector in order to collect a representative sample within the reagent fluid to monitor the aircraft air and wherein the representative sample is at least one of collected at a bottom of the conical collector or smeared on the inner surface of the conical collector.