Personal continuous air monitor

Patent · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2000

OSTI ID:872797

Morgan, Ronald G ^[1]; Salazar, Samuel A ^[2]

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1. Los Alamos, NM
2. Albuquerque, NM

A personal continuous air monitor capable of giving immediate warning of the presence of radioactivity has a filter/detector head to be worn in the breathing zone of a user, containing a filter mounted adjacent to radiation detectors, and a preamplifier. The filter/detector head is connected to a belt pack to be worn at the waist or on the back of a user. The belt pack contains a signal processor, batteries, a multichannel analyzer, a logic circuit, and an alarm. An air pump also is provided in the belt pack for pulling air through the filter/detector head by way of an air tube.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• Assignee: Regents of University of California (Los Alamos, NM)
• Patent Number(s): US 6011479
• OSTI ID: 872797
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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