Abstract:
An apparatus for assisting in measuring a color of a target includes an enclosed housing having a first aperture formed in a first end and a second aperture formed in an opposite second end and aligned concentrically with the first aperture, an array of light emitting diodes positioned inside the housing, between the first aperture and the second aperture, and an array of reference colors having known reflectance spectra, the array of reference colors being removably positioned inside the housing, between the array of light emitting diodes and the second aperture.
Abstract:
A spectral measurement apparatus includes a light source for generating a excitation light; an integrator having an input opening portion and an output opening portion; a housing portion arranged in the integrator and for housing a sample; an incidence optical system for making the excitation light incident to the sample; a photodetector for detecting a light to be measured output from the output opening portion; and an analysis means for calculating a light absorptance of the sample, based on a detection value detected by the photodetector, and an irradiation area with the excitation light at a position of incidence to the sample is set larger than an irradiated area of the sample, and the analysis means performs an area ratio correction regarding the irradiation area with the excitation light and the irradiated area of the sample, with respect to the light absorptance calculated.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus that make an easy and quick measurement of the concentration of materials in a suspension possible with high precision and without essentially changing the structure of the conventional spectrometer for pre-dispersive spectrometry are provided by nullifying the limitation of a container of a sample as compared to transmission measurement. A spectrometer equipped with an integrating sphere is used to measure the reflection spectrum from a suspension in a container when the suspension is irradiated with measurement light, of which the wavelengths are selected from a wavelength range including near infrared, reflection spectra of a number of types of standard samples, of which the concentrations in the suspension are already known, are used to prepare a measurement model in accordance with an assay technique on the basis of a recursion, and the concentration of a material in the suspension is found using the measurement model.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a light integrating cavity device, such as an integrating sphere, for measuring diffuse reflectance of a sample. A light trap is movable within a light scattering cavity of the device for controlling specular reflections during measurements. The light trap may be rotatable around the sample under test inside the cavity so that specular reflections off the sample can be included or excluded from the measurement. The sample may also be placed at the outside against a measurement port, and a measurement instrument is moveable on a rotating arm within or outside of the cavity.
Abstract:
A spectral measurement apparatus for irradiating a sample as a measurement object with excitation light and detecting light to be measured includes a light source generating the excitation light; an integrator having an input opening portion through which the excitation light is input, and an output opening portion from which the light to be measured is output; a housing portion arranged in the integrator and housing the sample; an incidence optical system making the excitation light incident to the sample; a photodetector detecting the light to be measured output from the output opening portion; and an analysis device calculating a quantum yield of the sample, based on a detection value detected by the photodetector, and the excitation light is applied to the sample so as to include the sample.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for determining the gloss of a colour standard comprising the following steps: A) experimentally determining reflection spectra R(exp) of the colour standard, comprising a first reflection spectrum and a second reflection spectrum, with an integrating sphere colour measurement instrument, wherein said first reflection spectrum is obtained at (A1) d/8-geometry with the specular component included, and said second reflection spectrum is obtained at (A2) d/8-geometry with the specular component excluded, and B) converting reflection spectra data of the experimentally determined reflection spectra R(exp) of the colour standard to gloss values by: B1) acquiring the difference reflection spectrum ΔR of the experimentally determined reflection spectrum R(exp) with the specular component included (A1) and the reflection spectrum R (exp) with the specular component excluded (A2), and B2) determining the gloss values corresponding to said difference reflection spectrum ΔR with the assistance of previously prepared calibration curves, representing the functional relationship between the difference reflection spectrum ΔR and the gloss values measured at one or more gloss angles.
Abstract:
An apparatus for measuring optical properties of transparent materials with a first illumination device which illuminates the material to be investigated along a pre-set illumination path with a pre-set radiation, with a radiation recording space which records radiation passed on by the material to be investigated. The radiation recording space is arranged so that radiation emitted by the first illumination device first strikes the material and then at least for a time an inner wall of the radiation recording space. A radiation detector device is arranged to record radiation reflected and/or scattered essentially only from the inner wall. A second illumination device suitable for emitting modulated radiation also illuminates the inner wall.
Abstract:
A spectrometer 1A is provided with an integrating sphere 20 for observing measured light emitted from a sample S of a measurement target, and a Dewar vessel 50 which retains a medium R for regulating temperature of the sample S, so as to cover the sample S and a second container portion 50b of which is located so as to face the interior of the integrating sphere 20. The sample S can be easily regulated at a desired temperature with the use of the Dewar vessel 50 retaining the medium R so as to cover the sample S. As the second container portion 50b is located so as to face the interior of the integrating sphere 20, the temperature of the sample S is regulated by the medium R, while inhibiting an external ambience around the integrating sphere from affecting the sample S. Therefore, the sample S can be efficiently regulated at a desired temperature.
Abstract:
A cooling apparatus includes a container configured to contain a coolant within a space. The apparatus further includes a cooling block positioned substantially within the space and having a high heat capacity such that the space not occupied by the cooling block is filled with a coolant to a level at or below the top of the cooling block, and a placement structure having high thermal conductivity positioned on top of the cooling block and outside of the space. A method for cooling an object is also provided, which includes inserting a coolant into a container configured to contain the coolant within a space, and placing the object on a placement structure outside the space. For this method, the placement structure has a high thermal conductivity and is coupled to a cooling block, the cooling block having a high heat capacity and positioned substantially within the space. A two-stage cooling apparatus and method is also described.
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 Φ0 of the luminescence quantum yield from results of a reference measurement and a sample measurement, and determines, by using factors β, γ regarding stray light in the reference measurement, an analysis value Φ of the luminescence quantum yield with the effect of stray light reduced by Φ=βΦ0+γ. 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.