Abstract:
An arithmetic expression used for estimating a target item of a specimen is more easily incorporated into an optical measurement system. An optical measurement instrument includes an optical analysis unit configured to perform an optical analysis on a specimen and measure an intensity of light as a result of the optical analysis, and an arithmetic processing unit configured to download an arithmetic expression from a server device via a network, and perform a quantitative analysis on a target substance contained in the specimen by substituting the result of the optical analysis by the optical analysis unit into the arithmetic expression.
Abstract:
Various embodiments include systems and methods to provide selectable variable gain to signals in measurements using incident radiation. The selectable variable gain may be used to normalize signals modulated in measurements using incident radiation. The selectable variable gain may be attained using a number of different techniques or various combinations of these techniques. These techniques may include modulating a modulator having modulating elements in which at least one modulating element acts on incident radiation differently from another modulating element of the modulator, modulating the use of electronic components in electronic circuitry of a detector, modulating a source of radiation or combinations thereof. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
Abstract:
Keys, which are incorporated in an automatic player piano, are monitored with an optical transducer system. The optical transducer system includes sensor heads provided on both sides of the key trajectories, LEDs connected to predetermined sensor heads through optical fibers, LDDs connected to the other sensor heads through optical fibers and a controlling unit. A luminescence controller is connected to the LEDs for optimizing the luminescence, and bias controllers are respectively connected to the LDDs. The luminescence controller and bias controllers optimize the luminescence of emitted light and the bias level of electric signals so that the optical transducer system is free from the individuality of component parts and the deterioration.
Abstract:
A method and system is disclosed in which the local variation of an extended radiation source is monitored with single-element detector. The chromatic aberration of the imaging optics induces the different transmittance curves for different wavelengths, and the different shape in the transmittance curve is used as a spatial filter which is multiplied to the chromatic intensity profile of the extended radiation source to detect the local variation in the intensity profile of the extended radiation source. The signal processing of the chromatic signals is implemented to detect the size variation and the environmental effects on the extended radiation source. A fiber is also used for remote operation.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus has a first space and a second space in a process chamber in which a semiconductor wafer is accommodated, the first and second spaces being separated by the semiconductor wafer. A process gas port opens into the first space adjacent to the obverse surface of the semiconductor wafer, and an infrared light transmission window is formed in a wall of the chamber at the second space facing the reverse surface of the semiconductor wafer. No layers are deposited on the reverse surface of the semiconductor wafer and the infrared light transmission window so that the emissivity at the reverse surface of the semiconductor wafer is not changed during layer deposition. The temperature during processing can therefore be monitored accurately with a pyrometer, and a reduction in the transmissivity of the window is prevented.
Abstract:
A proximity sensor comprising a thermal detector responding to the rate of change of a thermal input and connected to circuitry for performing a control function when the detector output becomes zero, which occurs when a target being approached by the detector fills the field of view of the detector.