Patent ID: 7183115

Claim:
A method of analyzing a human breathing air sample derived from a user air source in order to determine the user air source air sample purity without the necessity of transporting the breathing air sample to a remote qualified third party breathing air testing facility and determining if the air sample passes the human breathing air purity standards, the method comprising the steps of: providing a user air source for generating compressed human breathing air, said user air source used to supply SCUBA tanks and emergency air tanks at a user facility; providing a human breathing air collection tank at said user facility; collecting an air sample from said user air source in said air collection tank at said user facility; collecting said breathing air sample within a breathing air analysis module from said air collection tank at said user facility; determining breathing air purity characteristics of said human breathing air sample received within said breathing air analysis module from said air collection tank at said user facility; converting said breathing air purity characteristics into computer readable data; transmitting through an on-line computer network said computer readable data representing the air purity characteristics of said breathing air sample from said user air source at said user facility to a qualified server for certification of use situated at a remote site and electrically coupled to said breathing air analysis module, said server maintained by a qualified third party air purity certification site including a receiver for receiving said computer readable data via a data transmitter, said server containing a data storage element for storing said computer readable data; determining if said breathing air sample passes certain gas purity requirements; and informing said breathing air user facility having said user air source if said breathing air sample has passed said breathing air purity requirements using an on-line response to a computer located at said breathing air producer user facility.