Abstract:
A blackbody radiation device (110) includes a planar filament emission element (102) and a planar detector (104) for respectively producing and detecting radiation having width dl/l less than about 0.1 to test a sample gas, where l is the wavelength of the radiation; a reflector (108); a window (W); an electrical control (118); and a data output element (116).
Abstract:
Crime scene lighting devices are used in forensic criminology for illumination and investigation at crime scenes using fluorescence excitation. High radiation powers are required both for white light in the so-called general search and for the criminologically relevant UVA-blue-green range. Moreover, it should be possible for the crime scene investigator to use the forensic lighting device portably and independent from the public power supply. The present disclosure relates to a suitable crime scene light device with a mercury ultra high pressure lamp as the light source, a light guide and terminals for operating the lamp selectively with an accumulator or the public power supply system. A suitable carrier bag, a so-called lorgnette with various longpass filters and a cross-section converter for visualizing shoeprints form useful accessories of the forensic lighting device.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus are described for driving a modulated radiation source (which can be, for example, an infrared light source). The method affects the power driving a light source in such as way so as to minimize the warm-up time of the source. The apparatus permits feedback control of a light source to specified powers or temperatures. Disclosed embodiments can improve source performance and lifetime and decrease the operating costs of the source.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an arrangement in an apparatus for analyzing, on the basis of radiation absorption properties, one or more gas component included in a gaseous medium from an origin, like exhaled air from a person. The apparatus comprises a radiation source (10); a measuring chamber (8) provided with radiation transmissive windows (7a, 7b) for receiving a gas mixture (6) from at least the gaseous medium (G1); a first detector (1), which receives the radiation passed through the gas mixture; and between the radiation source and the detector a first optical interference filter (3), which has a first radiation transmission wavelength band and which is tiltable (P) relative to the passing radiation (R) beam. The arrangement further comprises a second detector (2) directed towards a radiation input surface (5b) of the first interference filter, said second detector receiving momentarily a portion of said radiation (R) as reflected from said radiation input surface (5b) of the first interference filter (3) during the tilt (P) movement.
Abstract:
An instrument for determining the concentration of a particular gas that might be present in a sample has no moving parts and is extremely compact and inexpensive. A novel waveguiding structure serves both as an optical element and as the sample chamber. As an optical element, the waveguiding structure collects radiation from a blackbody source located at the entrance end of the waveguiding structure and conducts the radiation through the waveguiding structure, concentrating it on two infrared detectors mounted at the opposite end of the waveguiding structure. As a sample chamber, the waveguiding structure causes the radiation to undergo multiple reflections that result in the average path length being substantially greater than the physical length of the waveguiding structure. Each of the detectors has its own optical filter, and baffling assures that each detector responds only to radiation which has passed through its filter. One filter defines a spectral passband that coincides with the infrared absorption band of the gas to be measured. The other filter defines a non-absorbing or neutral passband. The electrical signals produced by the detectors are processed to provide a ratio, the value of which is related to the concentration of the particular gas to be detected.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an analyzer that is provided with an advantage of rotor analyzer, and is not equipped with the weakness of the same. SOLUTION: The biochemical analyzer of small dry type for analyzing blood sample comprises: a measurement chamber 20 for accommodating a disposable rotor 13 on a same frame 11, including the minute vessel 13A and 13B filled with the dry regent; a digital dilution module 21 of a determined fixed or variable ratio, corresponding to the kind of analysis sample; a centrifugal module 12 for the sample constituted for centrifuging and angular directional positioning of the rotor in the measurement chamber; an optical module, constituted for irradiating the minute vessel with light flux including the flash lamp type light source 14 and the reference light sensor 16; and the external memory reading device 26, including electronic processing and control system 23, 24 and 25, constituted so as to read the portable external memory 27, at least including the information showing the feature of disposable rotor. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an infrared ray source and an infrared detection type gas sensor capable of enhancing photoreception efficiency of an infrared sensor without specular-processing an inner wall of a case. SOLUTION: This infrared ray source 100 provided with a substrate 10, a membrane 20 as a thin wall part provided in the substrate 10 and a resistor 15 provided in the membrane 20, and for heating the resistor 15 by electrifying it to emit an infrared ray toward the infrared sensor 200 is provided with a convergence lens 30 for converging the emitted infrared ray in the infrared sensor 200, on the substrate 10. The photoreception efficiency of the infrared sensor 200 is enhanced thereby without specular-processing the inner wall of the cylindrical container 320, because infrared energy reached to the infrared sensor 200 gets high when the infrared energy emitted from the infrared ray source 100 is equal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
The invention relates to an arrangement in an apparatus for analyzing, on the basis of radiation absorption properties, one or more gas component included in a gaseous medium from an origin, like exhaled air from a person. The apparatus comprises a radiation source (10); a measuring chamber (8) provided with radiation transmissive windows (7a, 7b) for receiving a gas mixture (6) from at least the gaseous medium (G1); a first detector (1), which receives the radiation passed through the gas mixture; and between the radiation source and the detector a first optical interference filter (3), which has a first radiation transmission wavelength band and which is tiltable (P) relative to the passing radiation (R) beam. The arrangement further comprises a second detector (2) directed towards a radiation input surface (5b) of the first interference filter, said second detector receiving momentarily a portion of said radiation (R) as reflected from said radiation input surface (5b) of the first interference filter (3) during the tilt (P) movement.
Abstract:
Pulsating infrared radiation source (50), which is so thin as to make its thermally stored energy less than the energy radiated during each pulse. This makes the source cooled by its own heat emission. Such sources have thicknesses commensurate with the wavelengths of infrared radiation. To avoid interference effects, the source's optical thickness may be made to equal a multiple of half wavelengths of the desired radiation. With the source mounted in a housing (53), efficient radiative cooling is obtained using windows (54 and 55) to each side. This makes it possible to extract infrared radiation from either face of the source.
Abstract:
Source de radiations infrarouges pulsative (50), qui est si mince que son énergie d'accumulation thermique est inférieure à l'énergie radiée par chaque impulsion. Ceci fait que la source est refroidie par sa propre émission de chaleur. De telles sources ont des épaisseurs proportionnées aux longueurs d'ondes des radiations infrarouges. Afin d'éviter les interférences, l'épaisseur optique de la source peut être rendu égale à un multiple des demi-ondes des radiations souhaitées. Lorsque la source est montée dans un boîtier (53), un refroidissement radiatif efficace est obtenu au moyen de fenêtres (54 et 55) situées de chaque côté. Il est rendu possible d'extraire des radiations infrarouges des deux faces de la source.