Abstract:
MEMS Device Having Contact and Standoff Bumps and Related Methods. According to one embodiment, a movable MEMS component suspended over a substrate is provided. The component can include a structural layer having a movable electrode separated from a substrate by a gap. The component can also include at least one standoff bump attached to the structural layer and extending into the gap for preventing contact of the movable electrode with conductive material when the component moves.
Abstract:
A high-throughput light detection instrument and method are described. In some embodiments, switch mechanisms and optical relay structures permit different light sources and/or detectors to be selected for different applications. In other embodiments, switch mechanisms and optical paths permit top/bottom illumination and/or top/bottom detection, or combinations thereof.
Abstract:
A method of reducing effects of noise in seismic signals generated by a plurality of seismic sensors at spaced apart locations from a seismic source is disclosed. Each of the signals is represented by a signal trace in a record section. The method includes the steps of isolating noise in the signal traces, time aligning corresponding portions of the noise in the traces thereby generating time-aligned noise traces, stacking the time-aligned noise trace to generate a stacked noise trace, replicating the stacked noise trace at each corresponding trace position in the record section, restoring the replicated traces to the original trace time positions by reversing the step of time-aligning to generate noise signature traces, comparing the noise signature traces to corresponding signal traces to generate filters which substantially minimize a measure of the difference between the noise signature traces and the signal traces. The noise signature traces are then filtered and the resulting filtered noise signature traces are subtracted from the signal traces. In a preferred embodiment the steps of comparing, generating filters, filtering and subtracting comprise linear adaptive filtering.In a particular embodiment the step of isolating the noise comprises bandpass filtering the signal traces.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an apparatus for determining the diffuse reflectivity of a sample surface of small dimensions, especially of the test field of a test strip for determining the substances contained in a body fluid. The apparatus has a semiconductor light emitter, especially a light-emitting diode, for the emission of visible or infrared light to the sample surface, a measuring receiver for receiving the light diffusely reflected by the sample surface and producing an electrical signal corresponding thereto, an evaluating means including an electronic circuit for converting the receiver signal to a value corresponding to the diffuse reflectivity, and a reference channel using the light from the same emitter for the calibration of the apparatus and for the elimination of errors of measurement caused by variations of the emitter or of other electronic components.
Abstract:
In the optical head, laser beams are converged by the objective lens and projected on the light-receiving surface of the optical disk. The diverged laser beam is reflected by the light-receiving surface, converged by the objective lens into parallel laser beams, and directed to the light shielding plate. Only the laser beam passing through the region spaced from the optical axis is picked up by the light shielding plate, and part of this laser beam is converged by a convergent lens and projected on photo insensitive and first and second photo sensitive regions of the photo detecting unit. The regions of the photo detecting unit are deviated by .DELTA. from a back focal point of the convergent lens, and the optical axis of the convergent lens passes through one of the first and second photo sensitive regions. The photo insensitive region has a width d which is not more than twice the larger of absolute values .vertline.h3(.DELTA., .delta.c).vertline. and .vertline.h3(.DELTA., -.delta.C).vertline. of variables given as follows:h3(.DELTA., .delta.c)={.-+..DELTA./m+2m.delta.c}(yO/F)h3(.DELTA., -.delta.c)-{.-+..DELTA./m-2m.delta.c}(yO/F)where .+-..delta.c is a maximum defocusing allowance with respect to the convergent point of the objective lens, m is a magnification of the beam spot formed on the regions of the photodector, yO is a radius of an exit pupil of the objective lens, and F is a distance between a principal point of the objective lens and the convergent point of the objective lens.
Abstract:
In an optical head, a laser beam emitted from a laser unit is converged by an objective lens and is projected toward a light reflecting layer of an optical disk. The laser beam reflected by the light reflecting layer is directed toward a light shielding plate through the objective lens. One part of the laser beam is shielded by the light shielding plate, and the other part thereof is converged by the projection lens and is projected on the photo sensitive regions. When the objective lens is kept in the just in-focusing state, a differential signal between photo signals generated from the photo sensitive regions is maintained at zero level. The differential signal is set at zero level when the objective lens is located at a transition point corresponding to a distance .delta.tf within the defocusing range. The beam spot formed by the light beam when the objective lens is located in the transition point extends outside the photo sensitive regions. In this case, an area Sout of a beam spot portion outside the photo sensitive regions is set to be a value 3Sin which is three times an area of a beam spot portion Sin within the photo sensitive regions.
Abstract:
A timing system for a spectrophotometer having a line driven chopper including a rotating disc with alternate open and opaque segments, index apertures in the disc spaced at invariant angular relationship to one of the open segments for providing indexing pulses having fixed time relationship to the light segments, and a programmable microcomputer assembly for generating a string of timing pulses for timing spectrophotometer operations and adjusting the rate of the timing pulses to provide a fixed number between indexing pulses in fixed phase relationship thereto.
Abstract:
An automatic focus detecting device comprising a photoelectric converting device formed by arranging many elements, a pupil divider capable of forming two object images on the photoelectric converting device through different light paths, a device capable of detecting an in-focus position by processing two image data obtained as output signals from the photoelectric converting device, a device for determining the reciprocal numbers of the output signals obtained by applying a uniform light onto the photoelectric converting device and a device for receiving the image data to correct the signals for output multiplying the image data by these reciprocal numbers in order to enable accurate focusing. The photoelectric converting device is so arranged as to receive the light having passed through an infrared cut filter or a band pass filter.
Abstract:
Variations in the intensity of a light source and the sensitivity of a fluorescence detector photo-multiplier tube are simultaneously compensated by measuring the intensity (I.sub.LS1) of the light source at the sample excitation frequency with a silicon detector, measuring the intensity (I.sub.LS2) of the light source at the emission frequency with another silicon detector, measuring with the photo-multiplier detector the intensity (I.sub.S) of the sample's fluorescence and the intensity (I.sub.LS3) of the light source at the emission frequency of the sample and then calculating a value F as representative of the sample's fluorescence according to the formula: ##EQU1##
Abstract:
A focus condition detecting device of the type in which a pair of re-imaging lenses together with a condenser lens form a pair of re-images of an object image on a linesensor, such that the distance between the corresponding points of the re-images on the linesensor varies with the focus condition of a camera objective lens has an improved construction for positioning the linesensor with respect to the device with high accuracy. A field aperture mask having a field aperture is arranged optically behind a plane conjugate with the linesensor with respect to the re-imaging lenses and the condenser lens such that a pair of defocused images of the field aperture are formed on the linesensor by the re-imaging lenses and the condenser lens with respective one side blurred borders of the defocused images overlapping one another to make a V-shaped peak or dip of illuminance on a photocell of the linesensor located on the optical axis of the device, when the field aperture mask is uniformly illuminated. The device is formed into a module attachable on a camera.