Abstract:
An absorption photometer for measuring the absorption by conducting the light to a thin flow cell in which a liquid sample flows, wherein the sample light for measuring the absorption peak is superimposed on the reference light selected from the transparent (window) range of the liquid and the absorbance is detected by separating the sample light and reference light after transmission of the flow cell. Changes in the light path conditions can be monitored accurately, and therefore high-accuracy measurement immune to noises is made possible even using an elongated flow cell.
Abstract:
An improved optical endpoint detector is disclosed in which two photocells are used in conjunction with analog multipliers and variable voltage sources, all under microprocessor control. The combination enables one to measure the ratio of intensity of different emission lines, as well as their individual outputs and alternative process monitoring signals.
Abstract:
A double polarized light beam spectrophotometer of a light-source modulation type. A modulated light beam emitted by a light source is conducted through specimen atom vapor generated by a graphite atomizer. Wavelength of light undergone atom absorption is selected and spatially separated into a pair of linearly polarized light beams perpendicular to each other. The pair of the linearly polarized light beams separated are alternately passed through a chopper and received by a photoelectric conversion device to be converted into electric signals which are utilized for determining atomic absorption of the specimen. The phase of modulation of light radiated from the light source is synchronized with phase of a current supplied to the graphite atomizer for heating thereof and the switching timing of the chopper.
Abstract:
An improved bichromatic or polychromatic spectrophotometer comprising means enabling the user to electronically select which wavelength of a preselected pair of wavelengths shall serve as a "sample" wavelength, with the other then serving as a "reference" wavelength.
Abstract:
An electro-optical medical instrument is provided for measuring the presence of bilirubin in skin tissue. The instrument is preferably hand-held and self-contained and utilizes a source of flash light to provide sufficient energy in the desired wavelength spectrums. The medical instrument can be automatically activated at a predetermined pressure against a patient's skin to provide a pair of measurement electrical signals. These electrical signals can be processed to provide an output signal representative of the bilirubin value which can be conveniently displayed.
Abstract:
For determining the partial pressure and concentration of a measuring gas which is in mixture with at least one additional gas according to an optical absorption technique, in which a beam of light having a predetermined intensity and alternatingly and cyclically having a first spectral distribution in which the light intensity will be reduced by passage through the measuring gas and a second spectral distribution in which the light intensity will not be reduced by passage through the measuring gas, is passed through such a mixture and its radiation intensity after passage through the mixture is measured in a radiation detector having an active element which is heated by the radiation and which produces an output representative of its degree of heating and composed of alternating measuring signal segments, resulting, respectively, from light having the first and the second spectral distribution, and adjacent signals segments are processed in order to compensate for various interference effects, the detector output is delivered to an input amplifier having a large signal to noise ratio, and signal inaccuracies due to superimposition of each signal segment portion produced by heating of the active element on a component representing the cooling behavior which the element would experience after the preceding heating period if further heating did not occur are compensated by integrating, in an integration member, successive portions of the detector output with respect to an integration base which has a fixed value relative to the detector output value corresponding to a constant active element temperature.
Abstract:
The two-beam photometer is suitable for extinction measurement on weakly-absorbent samples. The principle of measurement is based on a wavelength selection in either the comparison beam and the measuring beam. In the beam configuration measuring and comparison beam are coincident in space and follow each other periodically. The wavelength ranges in measuring beam and comparison beam is selected by a graded interference filter which is arranged perpendicular to the optical axis and rotatable about this axis. In the zone of the graded interference filter the path of the beam is formed by two narrowly limited beams symmetrically to the optical axis. Both beams are produced preferably by two light sources whose distance may be varied in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis while the symmetry with respect to the optical axis is maintained.
Abstract:
A double-beam spectrophotometer which can be used for dual-wavelength measurement and provide two substantially equivalent beams and a third beam of a different wavelength which advances along the same path as one of the two beams and alternately therewith. The optical elements employed are so arranged that the beams have a sharply defined, very narrow cross sectional area at the chopper having a number of chopping teeth so that the chopping speed can be increased without decreasing the efficiency in the use of the energy of the output signal of the detector. The cells may be placed at different places most suitable for measurement depending upon the kind and/or concentration of the sample to be measured.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a multiple wavelength infrared spectrometer. It includes an optical chopper and a pendulum-like filter carrier which inserts a plurality of filters sequentially into the radiation beam. Filter changes occur during an opaque period of the chopper and each filter remains in place for a predetermined number of radiation pulses. The radiation passes through the sample and onto a detector which produces an electrical signal. An electronic circuit operates upon the signal so produced to provide an output proportional to sample absorbance.