Abstract:
A light absorption detector includes a light source substantially adjacent a window of a chromatogrpahic flow cell. The flow cell is defined by a housing member which also includes a photo-sensitive detector.
Abstract:
A mixing ratio detecting device for composite liquid has a transparent column placed so that a bottom of the column is in contact with a mixing liquid, and a light emitting diode disposed so that light beams therefrom are incident on one side of the column to pass therethrough so as to impinge on an interface between the bottom of the column and the mixing liquid. The light beams impinged on the interface less than a critical angle are refracted, while the light beams impinged on the interface more than the critical angle totally reflected to escape from other side of the column. A photo diode is provided to receive the light beams escaped from the other side of the column so as to generate an output. An effective photo-receiving area of the photo diode is in the form of an inversed trapezoid to compensate for characteristics of the output from the photo diode.
Abstract:
An apparatus for attachment to a vehicle for sensing the organic matter content of soil at a soil scene as it is moved through the soil by the vehicle has a probe including a housing, a light source and a light sensor. The light sensor senses the light reflected from the soil scene and produces an output signal which is related to the organic matter content of the soil at the soil scene. The housing is attached to the vehicle so that as it is moved through the soil the soil scene that is observed by the light sensor is beneath the surface of the surrounding soil and the housing shields the soil scene from ambient light. The apparatus also includes a processor which processes the signal from the light sensor using data predetermined from a particular landscape which includes the soil to be sensed.
Abstract:
A turbidity meter has a sensor unit supported in a fluid under test with a light source and at least two light sensors supported so that one light sensor is in line with the source to receive transmitted light and the remaining sensor or sensors are arranged to receive light scattered by the fluid. Both the source and the sensors have flow forming chambers connected to a source of pressurized fluid so that a thin layer of this fluid is caused to flow over lenses of the source and sensors to prevent deposition of material from the fluid under test. The signals from the sensors are digitized, and the intensity of the source is digitally controlled to maintain at least one of sensor signals within a suitable range, thus enabling operation over a wide range of turbidities, and automatic selection of turbidimetric and nephelometric modes of operation as appropriate.
Abstract:
Test carrier analysis system for the analytical determination of a component of a sample fluid, in particular of a body fluid. The system comprises test carriers (1) with a color formation layer (5) which is attached movably to the test carrier. The color formation layer is in the initial state of the test carrier not in fluid contact with a fluid reservoir layer (4) likewise attached to the test carrier, but can be pressed against the latter by external manipulation. The system also incorporates an evaluation apparatus with a pressure element (10a) for the pressing of the color formation layer (5) and a control unit (25) for controlling the apparatus functions. In order to improve the analytical determination as regards simplicity of handling and accuracy of the analysis, the reference measurement and the sample measurement are under the control of the control unit (25) carried out in turn on the color formation layer serving as reference surface by means of the same optical unit (1), after the color formation layer has been pressed against the fluid reservoir layer (4) by means of the pressure element (10a).
Abstract:
An extinct type detector which detects and determines a concentration or density of a gas or vapor in a space on the basis of an attenuation of light due to the gas or vapor present within the space.The detector of this feature of the invention operates in such a way that the light emitting device is periodically driven to effect light emission, the first and the second photodetector devices receive the light from said light emitting device, the first and second storage means corresponding to the first and the second photodetector devices, respectively, cumulatively store the outputs from the respective photodetector devices, a difference in cumulative storage values between the first and the second storage means is detected to determine a concentration and density of the gas or vapor within the detecting space based on the detected difference.
Abstract:
An apparatus for measuring the refractive index of liquid particularly suitable for use in an ink-jet printing system is provided. The apparatus includes a light emitting diode and a photodiode which are optically coupled by an optical fiber which in turn is partly immersed in a liquid to be measured. In one aspect, the wavelength of light emitted from the light emitting diode is so set to be outside a light absorption wavelength range of the liquid to be measured. In another aspect, provision is made of a temperature dependent resistor which changes its electrical resistance depending on the temperature of the liquid to be measured so as to vary the level of the driving current to be applied to the light emitting diode thereby varying the amount of light to be emitted.
Abstract:
Contamination, either in the form of particulate matter (46), e.g., dust and non-wetting liquid, or surface discontinuities (48), such as a smooth film or cratering, is collected on an explosed glass plate (12). Illumination at an angle incident with respect to a surface (14) of the glass plate causes the particulate matter to scatter light. A further light source illuminates the inside volume of the glass, causing light to scatter from the surface discontinuities. Either source of light scattering is detected by an optically sensitive detector (18) positioned beneath the glass plate. A bandpass filter (24) between the glass plate and the detector rejects spurious radiation.
Abstract:
An optoelectric circuit for measuring the different optical densities of an image carrier, a toned test patch in an otherwise untoned imaging area of a photoconductor surface in a xerographic apparatus, wherein a LED (46) irradiates a test area of the surface, a phototransistor (47) receives radiation reflected from the text area, an amplifier (51) amplifies the output signal of the phototransistor, the LED is driven by the amplified output current of the phototransistor, and the current through the LED is used as a measure of the optical density.
Abstract:
In a turbidimeter for measuring a turbidity of a test solution to be measured i.e. culture solution in a fermentation apparatus, a semiconductor laser diode and a semiconductor photodiode are integrally arranged in a detection portion of the turbidimeter in such a manner that a laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser diode is made incident upon the semiconductor photodiode through the test solution. Moreover, a protection circuit for the semiconductor laser diode and the semiconductor photodiode is also arranged in the turbidimeter to cut off a current flowed therethrough when an environmental temperature becomes above a predetermined temperature. Therefore, the turbidimeter can be made small in size and light in weight, and the turbidity can be measured accurately over wide range.