Abstract:
A light guide member (220) useable for an object detection apparatus (101) is devised. The object detection apparatus (101) includes a light source unit (210), and a detection unit (206) for detecting an object adhered on a surface of a light translucent member configuring a vehicle based on change of light quantity of reflection light received from the light translucent member when light exiting from the light source unit (210) is reflected from the light translucent member having a face having curvature. The light guide member (220) includes a detection face (222) where the exiting light exits to a rear face of the light translucent member and the reflection light reflected from the light translucent member enters, the detection face (222) including a detection area where a part of the reflection light to enter the detection unit (206) passes through, and a non-detection area where remaining part of the reflection light not to enter the detection unit (206) passes through; a first intervening member (300) disposed on the detection face (222), a part or entire of the detection area attachable to a rear face of the light translucent member via the first intervening member (300); and a second intervening member (301), disposed on the detection face (222), a part or entire of the non-detection area attachable to the rear face of the light translucent member via the second intervening member (301). The first intervening member (300) has flexibility greater than flexibility of the second intervening member (301).
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a system having a first housing that includes an optically transparent substrate having a first side and a second side that is opposed to the first side, a camera disposed on the first side of the optically transparent substrate and a source of illumination. The source of illumination is disposed in a ring on the periphery of the first housing and located on the first side of the optically transparent substrate. The system further has a second housing having a circuit board that is operative to process the image captured by the camera, and a battery pack that is operative to supply electrical energy to the source of illumination and to power the circuit board.
Abstract:
Optical systems, and corresponding methods, for multiple reactions are provided. The optical systems are in a fixed position relative to a thermal assembly and include at least one array of excitation sources (e.g., light emitting diodes (LEDs)) (102) configured to output excitation energy along an excitation optical path. In addition, a detector configured to receive emission energy along a detection optical path in the same plane as the excitation optical path is also provided.
Abstract:
A machine is provided for inspecting the heel code of a container such as a bottle (10). The bottle is supported vertically at an inspection location and a camera (24) having an imaging area is located vertically beneath the bottle. A horizontally disposed annular ring light (17) directs an annular beam of light upwardly at a heel code of the bottle, and light reflected from the heel code is reflected, by an annular concave surface (16) located concentrically below the annular ring light (17), to the imaging area of the camera (24).
Abstract:
A machine is provided for inspecting a container which is being conveyed along a linear path. The machine has cabinets (C 1 , C 2 ) situated in front of the conveyor path (25) at either side of a central open area (23) in front of the conveyor path which is to be used by an operator for servicing the conveyor. The interior sides (45, 47) of these cabinets are open for access to electronics, and the central opening is closed by a pair of doors (21, 22) which are releasably attached to keyways (41) at the sides of the cabinets. The doors can be pushed in to provide access to the central area and can be pulled from the cabinets to detach them and provide access to electronics through the open sides (45, 47) of the cabinets.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device (100) and a corresponding method for thermoacoustic sensing, in particular thermoacoustic imaging, the device (100) comprising: a) an irradiation unit (10) configured to generate electromagnetic and/or particle energy exhibiting a first modulation, the first modulation comprising at least one frequency and to continuously emit the energy towards a target (1), whereby acoustic waves are continuously generated in the target, the acoustic waves exhibiting a second modulation, the second modulation comprising the at least one frequency and/or a harmonic frequency of the at least one frequency; b) a detection unit (20) configured to simultaneously detect the acoustic waves exhibiting the second modulation while the energy exhibiting the first modulation is being continuously emitted towards the target (1); and c) a processing unit (30) configured to determine at least one thermoacoustic value of an amplitude and/or a phase of the second modulation of the acoustic waves at the at least one frequency and/or at a harmonic frequency of the at least one frequency. The invention allows for fast and economic thermoacoustic sensing, in particular imaging, of a region of interest of an object.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device for optically detecting analytes in a sample, comprising optoelectronic components in the form of multiple optical detectors for receiving photons and multiple optical emitters for emitting photons, wherein at least three emitters are provided in a flat arrangement, not in a line, and at least three detectors are arranged in a flat arrangement, not in a line; and the emitters and/or the detectors have at least three different wavelength characteristics.
Abstract:
A planar sample, particularly of the type used in biological laboratories for detection and sometimes analysis of two-dimensional arrays of proteins, nucleic acids, or other biological species, is illuminated by epi-illumination using optically filtered line lights that are arranged along opposing parallel sides of a rectangle in which the sample array resides, with two coaxial line lights on each side of the rectangle, and the two on any given side being separated by a gap whose optimal width depends on the wavelength band transmitted by the optical filter. Surprisingly, the gap eliminates the peak in intensity at the center of the sample area and the decrease that occurs from the center outward that would otherwise occur with a single continuous filtered line light, producing instead a substantially uniform intensity along the direction parallel to the line lights.