Abstract:
A compressed air respirator has prolonged operating time due to a rebreathing feature. The respirator has a compressed air reserve (1) with a connected demand air supply valve (2), wherein the demand air supply valve (2) is connected with a reversible breathing gas reservoir (4) with adjustable volume. A rebreathing line (25) for the user of the apparatus has an expiration valve (88), wherein the rebreathing line (25) is connected with the breathing gas reservoir (4).
Abstract:
A compressed air respirator with prolonged operating time due to rebreathing. The compressed air reservoir includes a compressed air reserve with a connected demand air supply valve, a reversible breathing gas reservoir (4) with a registering device (5) detecting the filling level of the breathing gas reservoir (4), and with an inspiration and expiration line (7, 8) for the user of the apparatus. A valve (6) is connected with the inspiration and expiration line (7, 8) and, on the inlet side, with the compressed air reserve (1) with a demand air supply valve (2) and with the breathing gas reservoir (4) and, on the outlet side, with the ambient air (11) and with the breathing gas reservoir (4). The valve means (6) is cyclically reversed by the registering device (5) in two phases such that depending on the filling level of the breathing gas reservoir (4), the inspiration line (7) is first connected with the compressed air reserve (1) and the expiration line (8) with the breathing gas reservoir (4) during a first phase until the filling level of the breathing gas reservoir (4) reaches an upper reversing point for the valve means (6), so that the inspiration line (7) is connected with the breathing gas reservoir (4) and the expiration line (78) with the ambient air (11) during a second phase until the filling level of the breathing gas reservoir (4) reaches a lower reversing point for the valve means (6) and the latter is again reversed as in the first phase.
Abstract:
An optical absorption measuring instrument for determining the percentage of a component in a fluid shall be improved such that changes in the measuring radiation caused by drift or temperature have only a limited effect on the measuring result. Provisions are made for deflecting the measuring beams (10, 11) from a radiation source (4) to a detector (5) by at least two plane mirrors (71, 72), which are positioned such that the measuring beams (10, 11) emitted by the radiation source (4) are deflected to the detector (5). The surface of each plane mirror (71, 72) is dimensioned to be such that its illuminated surface in the area of the detector (5) is larger than the receiving surface (12) of the detector (5).
Abstract:
A codable gas detection system with at least one interchangeable gas sensor (2), which has standardized plug-type connections (5,6) between the gas sensor (2) and the measuring device (1), but is also able to prevent measured values of an unauthorized gas sensor (2) from being processed. Each gas sensor (2) contains a memory (3) with gas sensor-specific data and is connected via a line to the measuring device (1) with a first calculating and evaluating unit (7), to a downstream memory (8) and preferably to an alarm device (10). Via the second plug-type connection (5), the sensor element (4) proper is connected to a contacting unit (9) in the measuring device (1), and the contacting unit (9) is connected to the first calculating and evaluating unit (7), on the one hand, and to a downstream, second calculating and evaluating unit (11) for the measured value evaluation proper, on the other hand. Measured values from the gas sensor (2) are taken over only if the gas sensor-specific data are accepted by the calculating and evaluating unit (7).
Abstract:
A process for determination of one component of very low concentration in a test gas, which is guided in a supply line for concentration of the component across a sample collector, whose amassed quantity of samples is relinquished to a detection sensor. The arrangement makes available a measurement signal even during the collection of the sample. It also makes even the individual components of a multicomponent test gas detectable and a component-specific cross sensitivity of the detection sensor controllable. For this, the following process steps are provided: the test gas is first guided across the detection sensor 3 and then across the multistaged sample collector 7 having arrangements for separation of the several components; then after interruption of the supply of test gas, each individual stage 4, 5 and 6 separately relinquishes its separated component to the detection sensor 3.
Abstract:
A device for the analysis of the qualitative, optionally also the quantitative composition of gases, uses measuring light of known spectral composition that can pass through the gas to be analyzed and the gas can be caused to interact. A detector arrangement is present, which can detect light originating from the sites of the interaction between the measuring light and the gas to be analyzed. At least one refractive-diffractive optical element is provided, which is transparent over its entire surface and contributes to a wavelength-dependent imaging of the light to be detected onto the detector arrangement in a transmitting manner. The refractive-diffractive optical element is arranged in the ray path between the area in which the interaction between the gas to be analyzed and the measuring light takes place and the detector arrangement.
Abstract:
A device for guiding a person along a traveled path enables the wearer of the device to be guided back along the traveled path in an electronically supported manner even under conditions under which orientation is difficult. The device has a portable ejection means (2), in which a container (14) for accommodating a plurality of transponders (7) and an ejection mechanism (10), which is actuated by a control device (6) to eject a transponder (7) from the container (14), are present. A control unit (6) is prepared such as to actuate the ejection mechanism (10) at predetermined time intervals or at predetermined distances in space. A portable transmitter/receiver device (8) is designed to detect at least one of the transponders (7) dropped off and to generate a signal representative of the direction in which that transponder (7) is located. A portable display device (4) receives the direction signal of the transmitter/receiver means (8) and offers the wearer a visual and/or acoustic display of the direction.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for improved correction of drift in an infrared measuring instrument. The measurement signal furnished by a thermal detector is split into a direct voltage component and an alternating voltage component. By means of calibration curves (24, 27), a calculated comparison variable T DC , korr 900 is formed from a measured, averaged concentration value c AC1 900 . The correction value ΔT for the drift correction is obtained from the difference between the corresponding measured size of the direct voltage component T DC 900 and the comparison variable T DC , korr 900 .
Abstract:
A device is provided for putting an electrode carrier on a recumbent patient. The device includes a first lifting cushion that supports the shoulder region and the head of the patient at the same time and into which a pressurized medium can be admitted. A second lifting cushion is provided that supports the lumbar region and into which pressurized medium can be admitted. A spacer is provided fixing the lifting cushions in relation to one another in the chest region.
Abstract:
A method for determining the portion of an electrochemically detectable substance in a gas sample includes the steps of introducing the gas sample into an electrochemical measuring cell 1 and generating a measurement curve i(t) by the electrochemical conversion of the substance in the measuring cell 1. The measuring curve i(t) increases from a reference line to a maximum value i.sub.max and drops back again to the reference line. Then, the maximum value i.sub.max and an area A below the measuring curve i(t) are determined. The area A is proportional to the portion of the substance in the gas sample. The method is improved in that a new measurement value is made available after a short time. This is achieved in that the maximum value i.sub.n max and the area A.sub.n of a previous measurement are compared to each other and a proportionality factor K.sub.n is determined. The proportionality factor K.sub.n is given by the ratio of the area A.sub.n to the maximum value i.sub.n max and, for a new measurement, a new maximum value i.sub.n+1 max is determined and the portion of the substance in the gas sample is computed for the new measurement from the new maximum value i.sub.n+1 max and the proportionality factor K.sub.n of the previous measurement.