US 12,392,705 B2
Device for the direct measurement of porous medium parameters
Yann Periard Larrivee, Saint-Luc-de-Bellechasse (CA); and Vincent Pelletier, Sainte-Henedine (CA)
Assigned to HORTAU INC., Levis (CA)
Appl. No. 17/762,595
Filed by HORTAU INC., Levis (CA)
PCT Filed Sep. 25, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CA2020/051282
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 22, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/056113, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/906,850, filed on Sep. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0397509 A1, Dec. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. G01N 15/08 (2006.01); G01N 33/24 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 15/082 (2013.01) [G01N 33/245 (2024.05); G01N 33/246 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A porous medium parameter measurement device comprising alternating layers of at least one porous conductive component, and at least one porous non-conductive component;
wherein each one of the alternating layers is in operative communication with a porous medium through a plurality of pores allowing a porous medium solution to diffuse through each one of the alternating layers to reach diffusion equilibrium with the porous medium;
wherein at least one of the alternating layers is enriched or supplemented with at least one of conducting particles and ionophores; and
wherein at least two parameters of the porous medium solution are measured, the at least two parameters being different from one another.