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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photodetector with excellent sensitivity. SOLUTION: This photodetector has a photomultiplier provided with a window for receiving incident light. A photoelectric negative electrode is bonded on an inner face of the window by a known manner. The photodetector has further an optical fiber, and a means for connecting the optical fiber to the window to introduce the light into the window at an angle of reflecting totally the light as its result. The connecting means is materialized as an optical fiber terminal connector. Alternatively, the connecting means may include a prism bonded onto an outer face of the window. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a gating circuit to switch the responsivity of a photomultiplier tube between ON and OFF states by modulating the voltage bias of the one or more of its electrodes. SOLUTION: The gating circuit capacitively couples a voltage pulse to the photocathode 304 or other electrode of the photomultiplier tube 302 in response to a low-voltage triggering signal. A voltage divider 312 network and a high-voltage power supply used to statically bias the photomultiplier tube also power the gating circuitry and transmit a gating voltage pulse. The electrode gating pulse characteristics, including rise- and fall-times, voltage swing amplitude and duration, can be modified by adjusting resistor and capacitor values and Zener diode characteristics of the gating circuit and voltage divider network. The circuit can also be used to gate related devices such as microchannel plates and image intensifiers. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PURPOSE: To surety detect trespass and to prevent the occurrence of an erroneous alarm by providing two different detectors in the same protected area and giving an alarm only at the time when both detectors are operated in a specific mode. CONSTITUTION: If a glass window is pushed, broken, or holed in a protected area, a crash sound of glass is emitted, and the pressure in the room is varied. This sound is recorded by a glass break detector 30, and the pressure variance is recorded by a pressure detector 10. Since the propagation speed of the pressure wave is lower than that of the acoustic wave, the pressure variance is detected with a delay of about 0.1sec. For the purpose of preventing an erroneous alarm, the glass break detector 30 is constituted as a microphone, and sounds on the outside of the frequency range of the sound caused by glass break are suppressed through a band pass filter 35. A band pass filter 15 is used to transmit only the variance peculiar to glass break. Further, an alar, is given in response to the variance peculiar to glass break by the delay time of a time delay circuit 45.
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PURPOSE: To attain phase adjustment over entire 360 deg. by generating the discharge of a capacitor simultaneously with a delay output signal, and providing a lock-out circuit which prevents a delay signal outputting circuit to generate a second output signal in a prescribed period after generating a first output signal. CONSTITUTION: A ripple counter 22 is started by an output from a phase shift outputting circuit 20, and the ripple counter 22 counts the number of cycles of the horizontal frequency of the device. Also, the output of the phase shift outputting circuit 20 is not cleared until the ripple counter reaches the preliminary scheduled count value. This count values is normally set to 256 so that the outputting circuit can not generate another output signal until 257 corresponding to a normal 262.5 horizontal cycle is counted in one vertical cycle period. Therefore, a false signal can be prevented from being generated in a period which is about 98% of the operating time of this circuit. Thus, phase adjustment can be attained over the entirety of 360 deg..
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PURPOSE: To enable a motion detector to use a practical size memory, to predict and exclude a general false alarm source, and to enhance the reliability of motion detection by processing signals obtained from only the edge section of an object in the visual field of a camera. CONSTITUTION: Motion detector 10 determines the action of the edge section of an object in a TV field. Signals from a camera 12 are supplied to a differentiator 22 via a LPF 20, a waveform is generated that forms only the both edge sections of the central grey band area in the TV camera field, a detector detects its zero intersection, the signal issued at the time of detection is triggered by a monomulti 30, and a pulse having a standard width which precisely agrees with the edge section is generated, and is sent to a memory 14. The memory 14 is controlled by a controlled 15, and the output from the controller is supplied to a motion analyzer 40 via a vertical coincidence filter 38, and an alarm output is suppressed unless an object moves the minimum distance.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reflectro lens for a time-of-flight mass spectrometer, a mass spectrometer using the above reflectro lens, a manufacturing method of the reflectro lens, and its device. SOLUTION: The reflectro lens includes a glass tube having a conductive surface along the length. The conductive surface has an electrical resistance gradient along its length. The electrical resistance gradient provides an electric field in the interior of the tube that varies in strength along the length of the tube when an electric potential is applied to both ends of the tube. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a replaceable and electronically-insulated micro channel plate electron multiplier-based spectrometer detector cartridge with enhanced sensitivity. SOLUTION: A mass detector is electro-optically isolated from a charge collector with the electron multiplier for converting a charged particle into a multiplicity of electrons and a scintillator for converting the multiplicity of electrons into a multiplicity of photons. A light sensor is provided to convert the multiplicity of photons back into electrons, which are summed into a charged pulse. The light sensor is realized by any of a plurality of photo-responsive devices. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a detector for a coaxial bipolar flight-time type mass spectrometer. SOLUTION: The detector comprises a microchannel plate, a scintillator provided in parallel with the microchannel, and a mirror oriented with an angle to the scintillator. The angle of the mirror is selected so as to reflect the photons emitted from the scintillator in the direction substantially right angle to the scintillator. The microchannel plate, the scintillator, and the mirror have respectively an aperture in the center. The detector has a transparent tube which extends penetrating through the central aperture formed respectively in the microchannel plate, the scintillator, and the mirror. A photomultiplier tube is coupled to the detector in order to receive the photons reflected by the mirror. A coaxial bipolar flight-time type analyzer incorporating the detector is also described. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI