Today, on Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th birthday, Hummingbird Sensing Technology, a gas analyser manufacturer, has been awarded the 2016 Queen’s Award (QA) for Enterprise.
The UK-based company, which is a division of leading gas analysis company, Servomex, received the award to recognise its innovation in the design and manufacturing of its Paramagnetic oxygen (O2) sensors, which are widely used in medical and industrial applications.
The unique design of Hummingbird’s O2 sensor utilises a torsion dumbbell system – two nitrogen (N2) filled glass spheres which are mounted on a noble, metal, taut-band suspension within a strong magnetic field – to attract and detect O2.
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