| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gas sampling assembly that effectively and efficiently separates moisture from a gas sample and that substantially does not degrade the waveform of expired gases measured at the sample. <P>SOLUTION: Provided is a sidestream gas sampling assembly 100 that substantially does not degrade the waveform of expired gases. The gas sampling assembly includes a sample cell portion 104 integrated with a filter portion 102 for separating undesired liquid condensate from respiratory gases to be monitored. The gas sampling assembly is configured to receive expired gases through a gas sampling line, filter undesired liquid condensate from the expired gases through hydrophobic fiber elements and communicate the filtered gases to a sample chamber which is in close proximity to the filter where measurements thereof are taken by means of, e.g., optical or infrared sensing mechanisms. The gases that are substantially free of liquid condensate are then exhausted from the sample chamber. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |
