Abstract:
A method and apparatus for calibrating temperature measurements that are taken with a first radiation detector for measuring thermal radiation given off by a reference substrate are provided. The method includes the steps of heating the reference substrate, which carries at least one reference material having a known melting point temperature, to or over the melting point temperature and measuring the thermal radiation of the reference substrate during the heating step, during a cooling period that follows the heating, or during both the heating and the cooling periods. The method also includes the step of correlating a measurement plateau of the thermal radiation which occurs during the measuring step with the known melting point temperature.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a combustion temperature sensor, and, more particularly, to a combustion temperature sensor that measures infrared energy emitted at several preselected wavelengths from a flame and/or a flame's hot gas at a turbine inlet location and applies the energy signals to a calculation model to yield temperature.
Abstract:
A temperature measuring method measures the temperature of a measuring object, such as a semiconductor wafer, by a radiation thermometer capable of approximating the relation between its output and the temperature of the measuring object by a predetermined straight line and of being calibrated by properly determining a slope and a y-intercept for the straight line. The measuring method carries out a procedure including the steps of measuring the reflectivity of a measuring object regarding the light of a wavelength that is not transmitted by the measuring object, and determining a slope and a y-intercept for a proper straight line for the measuring object on the basis of results of processing the measuring object by a predetermined process, such as a film forming process, that provides a result, such as the thickness of a film, corresponding to process temperature. The procedure is repeated for a plurality of measuring objects to determine the relation between the reflectivity of the measuring object, and the slope and y-intercept of the proper straight line. The radiation thermometer is calibrated on the basis of the relation, and the temperature of the measuring objects is measured.
Abstract:
A vehicle visibility assist device is started up when a switching operation of a switch for an external vehicle light is detected and when it is determined by a brightness sensor that it is darker outside of the vehicle than a predetermined threshold. The visibility assist device projects infrared light to a region outside the vehicle, captures a reflection of the light, processes an image of the region outside the vehicle, and projects the image onto a surface visible to the vehicle operator.
Abstract:
The invention is directed to an infrared thermometer and a temperature calculation method suitable for determining the body temperature at different measurement sites, for example, on a person's forehead or in the ear. The thermometer includes a device for attaching a demountable probe head. Provision is made for different probe heads that are adapted to fit the different measurement sites.
Abstract:
An optical system for a gas component analysis includes an emitter for emitting first light beam having a first spectrum, a second emitter for emitting a second light beam at a second spectrum, a first receiver for receiving the first light beam, and a second receiver for receiving the second light beam.
Abstract:
A thermal process apparatus for a semiconductor substrate, including a heating source heating the semiconductor substrate by irradiating a light on one side of the semiconductor substrate, a reflection plate facing to the semiconductor substrate in a state where a reflection cavity is formed with another side of the semiconductor substrate, a thermometer having a light-receiving part provided on the refection plate so as to measure a temperature of the semiconductor substrate by catching a radiation beam from the semiconductor substrate heated by the heating source by the light-receiving part; and light absorption means provided around the light-receiving part for absorbing a diffuse reflection light generated in the reflection cavity.
Abstract:
A radiation thermometer capable of precise measurement without depending upon an absolute precision of an infrared ray sensor for detecting infrared ray or a temperature sensor for measuring a temperature of the infrared ray sensor is provided wherein, controlling means retains a reference temperature for the measurement object, a sensor reference temperature for the sensor, and a sensor reference output for the sensor output when infrared ray radiated from the object of measurement having the object of measurement reference temperature is detected by the infrared ray sensor having the sensor reference temperature, and calculates the temperature of measurement object based on a first difference as a difference between a sensor temperature to be measured by the sensor temperature measuring portion and a sensor reference temperature, a second difference as a difference between a sensor output to be detected by the infrared ray sensor and a sensor reference output and the object of measurement reference temperature.
Abstract:
A radiography system is disclosed of the type having means for irradiation of an object in order to form an image of the said object or in order to detect irradiation of said object, said radiography system comprising a sensor having an exposure response function, wherein the sensor is in form of a stimulable storage phosphor plate, comprising stimulable storage phosphors, preferably having a dark-decay of more than 24 hours, wherein energy of stimulation radiation is higher than energy of emission radiation upon stimulation of said storage phosphors.
Abstract:
Electro-thermal feedback is utilized for removing thermal conductance between a bolometer's absorber element of a pixel in a thermal radiation sensor assembly and the environments through its mechanical support structure and electrical interconnects, thereby limiting the thermal conductance primarily through photon radiation. Zeroing the thermal conductance associated with the mechanical support structure and electrical interconnects is achieved by electro-thermal feedback that adjust the temperature of an intermediate stage of the mechanical support structure and electrical interconnects to equal the bolometer's absorber element temperature.