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PURPOSE:To obtain the differential refractometer which has good reproducibility and good stability by providing an A/D converter which converts the outputs of a couple of optical sensors into digital signals and an arithmetic part which divides the difference between the couple of the digitized optical sensor outputs by the sum of the couple of the optical sensor outputs to obtain a refractive index difference signal. CONSTITUTION:The outputs of the couple of the optical sensors which photodetect light refracted by a flow cell to obtain the signals corresponding to the refractive index difference are converted by A/D converters 26-1 and 26-2 into the digital signals V1, V2. The arithmetic part 30 divides the difference (V1-V2) between the digitized optical sensor outputs V1 and V2 by the sum (V1+V2) of those signals to correct variation in light quantity. The arithmetic part 30 multiplies the arithmetic value after the light quantity variation is corrected by a proportional constant K from a proportional constant setting part 32 so as to obtains the signal of the refractive index difference, which is outputted. The constant K is found by using a standard material so that the division result is the refractive index difference, and stored in the propor tional constant setting part 32.
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PURPOSE:To exactly measure fluorescence with high accuracy by providing a concave mirror around an optical cell which is transparent to UV and visible light, passing a sample to be measured in the direction of the central line of the optical cell and passing excitation light along the central line. CONSTITUTION:A cell 3 made of quartz, an elliptical mirror 4 and an optical system 5 are provided in a casing 2. The eluate from the column of high- performance liquid chromatograph is admitted from a stainless steel pipe 11 into the cell 3 and is discharged from a stainless steel pipe 16. The eluate is excited by the incident excitation laser light from an optical fiber 6 to emit the fluorescence 2 while flowing in the cell 3. This fluorescence 25 is reflected by a reflecting surface 26 of the mirror 4 and is condensed to a focus 27. The fluorescence 25 collected at the focus 27 is collimated by a collimator lens 17a and the unnecessary scattered light is removed therefrom by a filter 18. This light is condensed by a focusing lens 17b onto a photoelectron multiplier 19. The current proportional to the condensed fluorescence obtd. by the multiplier 19 is amplified by an amplifier 21. The fluorescent intensity is determined and is recorded in a recorder 22.
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PURPOSE:To easily form a pin-hole in a short time by providing a work-assisting material made of a laser beam transmitting material in a state adhered to the rear surface and irradiating the front surface with a laser beam to form a pin-hole through which charged particles pass. CONSTITUTION:A swelling part 1a of a charged particle passage limiting member 1 is supported to be projected, and a work-assisting material 3 such as vinyl tape, through which a laser beam L radiated from above through a condenser lens 2 is transmitted, is provided in adherence with the lower surface of the member 1. When the laser beam L is incident on the upper surface of the member 1 under the presence of shield gas such as Ar, firstly a part of the surface of the member 1 is fused and evaporated to form a pin-hole 1b. At that time, the work-assisting material 3 is not fused even when it is irradiated by the beam L due to its transmitting property, so that the pin-hole 1b is formed in a state plugged up at the lower end thereof. Therefore, the fused material and the evaporated material are emitted and removed upwardly, so that when the assisting material 3 is removed subsequently, the pin-hole 1b having sharp edge can be obtained.
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PURPOSE:To correct the influence of the secondary light of a diffraction grating and to perform measurement from the ultraviolet-ray range to the visible light range at a time by a single light source by measuring the detection spectrum of an array type detector in the presence and absence of a filter respectively. CONSTITUTION:The filter 14 which has monotonous transmissivity is provided detachably between a light source 2 and a spectrometer 6, in concrete, between the light source 2 and a flow cell 4. Then the detection spectrum of the array type detector 8 provided at the exit position of the spectrometer 6 is measured in the presence and absence of the filter 14. The real spectrum I0(lambda) is calculated from I0(lambda)=I(lambda)-K(lambda/2)I(lambda/2) and K(lambda/2)=[I(lambda)T(lambda)-I'(lambda)]/{I(lambda/2)[T(lambda)-T(l ambda/2)]}, where I0(lambda) is the real spectrum in a wavelength range where there is the influence of the secondary light, I(lambda) the apparent spectrum measured value under the influence of the secondary light in the absence of the filter, and I'(lambda) the measured spectrum in the presence of the filter. Here, lambda is the wavelength and T(lambda) is the transmissivity of the filter.
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PURPOSE:To simultaneously measure absorption spectra over the entire region from an ultraviolet region to a visible region, by providing a filter shielding ultraviolet rays to the front surface of the photodetector for detecting the visible region among the photodetectors of a photodiode array. CONSTITUTION:The window material 20 of a photodiode array 12 is divided into the part 12a of the element used in an ultraviolet region and the part 12b corresponding to a visible region and the boundary of both parts is set so as to come to the part of an element receiving light of 350-360nm. Coating 18 having a transmission spectrum shown by a drawing is applied to the part corresponding to the element on the side of the visible region of the surface of the window material 20. The transmission spectrum of this coating 1 has a characteristic shielding light having a wavelength shorter than 300nm but sufficiently transmitting light having a wavelength longer than 350nm. For example, the coating 18 can be realized by forming a dielectric layer film composed of zirconium oxide or SiO2 by a vapor deposition method. By this method, the absorbancies extending from the ultraviolet region to the visible region can be simultaneously measured.
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PURPOSE:To enable high sensitivity detection by a continuous spectrum even in an ultraviolet region, by using a mercury-xenon lamp as a light source. CONSTITUTION:Light passing through a diffraction grating 6, a light blocking plate 7 and an optical chopper means 9 from a light source 2 is incident to a photoacoustic cell 10 having a specimen stored therein and the sound corresponding to the specimen is generated to perform the specimen analysis through a piezoelectric resistance effect element 11. When a mercury-xenon lamp is used as the light source 2, it is unnecessary to align a radiation wavelength to an absorption wavelength as in the case using monochromatic light as a continuous spectrum by wavelength-spectroscopic energy characteristics and high sensitivity detection can be performed over a wide wavelength band even in an ultraviolet region.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the reproducibility of the detection result of a fluorescence detector without having to cause the cost of system configuration to increase. SOLUTION: A flow cell 2 is accommodated in a temperature control block 6 for a sample. A photodetector 12 that detects fluorescence from a sample is accommodated in a temperature control block for a photodetector. A temperature control section 11 on the lower side of the flow cell 2, that comprises a thermally conductive simultaneous temperature control block 10 and a Peltier element 8 as a temperature control mechanism contacted to the simultaneous control block that cools or heats the simultaneous temperature control block 10. The simultaneous temperature control block 10 is integrated with the temperature control block 6 for the sample and the temperature control block 14 for the photodetector. With the integration of the temperature control block 14 for the photo-detector 14 and the simultaneous temperature control block 10, the temperature of the photodetector 12 is controlled at a fixed temperature. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fluorometric spectrophotometer capable of efficiently condensing the fluorescence emitted from a sample to a detector and enhancing detection sensitivity. SOLUTION: The fluorometric spectrophotometer is constituted so that the sample flowing through a cylindrical flow cell 11 is irradiated with the exciting light emitted from an exciting optical system and the fluorescence emitted from the sample is detected by a fluorometric spectroscope 25. The exciting optical system is arranged so that the exciting light is thrown axially from the cell window 18 of the flow cell 11. A reflecting mirror 17 surrounds the peripheral surface of the flow cell 11 and reflects the fluorescence emitted from the sample to guide it to the fluorometric spectroscope 25. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid chromatograph fro gradient elution analysis, that solves such a problem that difference in analysis results among devices are generated, even under identical analysis conditions, and can apply the same analysis conditions to another device universally. SOLUTION: In this liquid chromatograph having a gradient liquid-feeding mechanism for feeding liquid while changing the composition of mobile phase liquid according to a specific program, a sample-injecting mechanism for injecting a sample into the mobile phase liquid, and a controller 10 for controlling them, the value (or a value related to this) of the inner volume of a mobile phase liquid channel from a mixing point M, where a plurality of mobile phase liquids merge to a sample injection point S is stored in the controller 10, the time when the composition of the mobile phase liquid starts to change at the sample injection point S is calculated from the value, and the timing for injecting the liquid at the sample-injecting mechanism is determined, based on the result. Accordingly always simultaneously to starting of the change in the mobile phase composition in a column 6 as soon as the sample enters the column 6 and eliminating the difference in analysis results due to the difference in the inner volume among the devices.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make performable reliable quantitative analysis even for a sample with a large temperature coefficient of fluorescent intensity. SOLUTION: A sample solution to arrive at a flow cell 28 reaches a set temperature at all times so as to be measured at a constant temperature by covering a whole sample chamber with a heat insulating material 21 to be cut off thermally from the outside and by keeping the flow cell 28 and a guiding tube 27 for guiding the sample solution to the flow cell 28 at the set temperature by means of a heater 23 as a heating means, a Peltier element 24 as a cooling means, a platinum resistive element 25 as a temperature-detecting means and a temperature-controlling circuit 26. In addition, for detecting fluorescence, employing a photomultiplier having a photoelectric surface made of a material of bialkali compound semiconductor or multialkali compound semiconductor limits the temperature coefficient of the detector to a low level.