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Innovation and Technology Transfer

New technologies are created thanks to the commitment and creativity of our employees within the framework of our public mandate. Here you will find offers for these technologies - also for branches outside of pure metrology.

Due to hot spots on the surface, it has so far been a problem to use commercial T5 fluorescent lamps with higher power in explosion-protected areas. The new PTB invention – a small, novel component – makes it now possible to reduce the surface temperature that is relevant to ignition. This allows T5 fluorescent lamps up to 54 W to be used in explosion-protected luminaires.

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Force measuring machines measure either tensile or compressive forces; they have to be modified when switching between these two operating modes. PTB's new diversion device makes these adaption times redundant. This enables novel and faster calibrations also over the full range of tensile and of compressive forces with zero crossing. Another advantage, e.g., in the case of high-precision...

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By means of a newly developed dosimetric measurement procedure for teletherapy accelerators, the dose can – despite the small air volume of the chamber of 1 mm3 – be determined reliably and within just a few seconds. The underlying patented procedure is baded on the pulse-resolved analysis of the detector to enable the deduction of undesirable signals in feed lines, in connections as well as in...

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In der Verfahrenstechnik, der Bauindustrie und auch bei den Herstellern von Kunststoffen besteht ein hoher Bedarf an präzisen, schnellen und kostengünstigen Verfahren zur Materialanalyse und Qualitätsüberwachung. Der neue PTB-Foliensensor bestimmt innerhalb weniger Minuten Wärmeleitfähigkeit (WLF) und Temperaturleitfähigkeit (TLF) präzise und zuverlässig. Erstmals können in einem Messschritt...

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