Patent ID: 11963446
Assignee: BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  C  G | IPC C  G  H

Claim 12:
13. A method of heat-treating a thermocouple, comprising:
measuring an output voltage of a thermocouple while exposing a first thermoelement wire and a second thermoelement wire to a temperature between 50° C. to 60° C. above a predetermined operational temperature of the first and second thermoelement wires; and
maintaining the first thermoelement wire and the second thermoelement wire exposed to the temperature until a rate of change of a normalized voltage output of the first thermoelement wire and the second thermoelement wire is between 0.001 normalized Volts per hour and 0.0001 normalized Volts per hour.