Abstract:
Provided are: a method for brazing an aluminum alloy, which is characterized in that brazing is carried out by heating an aluminum brazing sheet without using flux in a furnace that is in an argon gas-containing atmosphere, said aluminum brazing sheet comprising a core material that is composed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy and a brazing filler material that is composed of an aluminum alloy and clad on one surface or both surfaces of the core material, and said core material and/or said brazing filler material containing Mg; and a brazing apparatus which is used in the method for brazing an aluminum alloy. The brazing method has good and stable brazing properties and is applicable in industrial practice.
Abstract:
An optical spectrometer arrangement (200) is provided. According to an example, the optical spectrometer arrangement comprises a linear array detector (210a) for receiving light at a predefined range of wavelengths, a point detector (210b) for receiving light at a predefined wavelength that is outside said predefined range of wavelengths, and an arrangement of a collimating optical element (104), a diffracting optical element (106) , and a focusing optical element (108) that are arranged to provide at least a first optical path that guides incoming light at said predefined range of wavelengths to the linear array detector via the collimating optical element, the diffracting optical element and the focusing optical element, and a second optical path that guides incoming light at said predefined wavelength to the point detector via the collimating optical element, the diffracting optical element and one of the collimating optical element and the focusing optical element.
Abstract:
A detector apparatus is provided and includes a collector having access to a sample of a gaseous fluid and a tester coupled to and disposed remotely from the collector. The tester includes a test chamber into which a sample is directed from the collector, an excitation element to excite the sample in the test chamber and a spectrum analyzing device coupled to the test chamber to analyze the excited sample for evidence of a concentration of particles of interest in the gaseous fluid exceeding a threshold concentration. The threshold concentration is defined in accordance with a type of the particles of interest and a residence time of the sample.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a system and method to improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of optical spectrometers that are limited by nonrandom or fixed pattern noise. A signal from a sample is collected using a short test exposure, a total observation time to maximize SNR is calculated, and the total observation time is achieved by averaging multiple exposures whose time is selected based on the time dependent noise structure of the detector. Moreover, with a priori knowledge of the time dependent noise structure of the spectrometer, this method is easily automatable and can maximize SNR for a spectrum of an unknown compound without any user input.
Abstract:
A spectroscopic measurement apparatus 1A comprises an integrating sphere 20 in which a sample S is located, a spectroscopic analyzer 30 dispersing the light to be measured from the sample S and obtaining a wavelength spectrum, and a data analyzer 50. The analyzer 50 includes an object range setting section which sets a first object range corresponding to excitation light and a second object range corresponding to light emission from the sample S in a wavelength spectrum, and a sample information analyzing section which determines a luminescence quantum yield of the sample S, determines a measurement value ¦ 0 of the luminescence quantum yield from results of a reference measurement and a sample measurement, and determines, by using factors ², ³ regarding stray light in the reference measurement, an analysis value ¦ of the luminescence quantum yield with the effect of stray light reduced by ¦ = ²¦ 0 +³. This realizes a spectroscopic measurement apparatus, a measurement method, and a measurement program which can reduce the effect of stray light generated in a spectrometer.