Abstract:
A multiplexed, absorbance-based electrophoresis system for analyzing multiple samples simultaneously without use of a mask or slit comprising a light source, a planar array of capillary tubes and a detector positioned off-axis with the light source and positioned on-axis with and parallel to the planar array of capillary tubes. Other embodiments include vacuum use attached to the capillary tubes to increase the speed of detection.
Abstract:
A flow cell for transporting fluid in a radiant energy field includes a cell structure having a tube extending therethrough including a radiant energy blocking portion integral therewith. In a particular embodiment, the cell structure includes one or more end caps having a protrusion extending therefrom, wherein the protrusion may be inserted into the tube to create a fluid seal, the end caps including open channels for transporting fluid and radiant energy therethrough, and the tube in the cell structure includes an efficient radiant energy transmission lining that is spaced from the end cap protrusions, thereby forming a gap volume in the flow cell open channel, which gap volume may be calibrated such that radiant energy losses may be standardized in respective flow cells transporting fluids having various indexes of refraction.
Abstract:
Radiant energy is transmitted to a probe element including an interior conical reflecting surface and a fluid sample chamber. Portions of the light which have been transmitted, partially attenuated, or scattered by a fluid sample in the sample chamber are directed by at least a portion of the interior conical reflecting surface to means for collecting the transmitted, partially attenuated, or scattered light. A stilling valve incorporated into the probe element enables elimination of entrained gas bubbles from the chamber. A specific application of the probe is disclosed in which a titration analyzer is combined with electro-optic signal conversion and processing circuits and a probe according to the invention to provide titration colorimetric endpoint determination in measuring the free fatty acid content of a fluid such as a edible oil or fat.
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.
Abstract:
Radiation-translating devices such as resonance backscatter cells and other fluorescent bodies receive incident radiation in a concentrated beam and emit processed radiation in diffuse form. The present system separates such processed radiation from any unprocessed incident radiation specularly reflected from the cell window by receiving both in an optical light pipe coaxial with the unwanted radiation. The light pipe is laterally immersed in an optical medium of such index that the unwanted radiation is retained by total reflection in the pipe and a major portion of the initially diffuse processed radiation is transmitted through the sidewalls to form an annular beam of moderate solid angle suitable for further processing by conventional optics. The same light pipe may also supply the beam of incident radiation to the translating device.
Abstract:
An optical sensor includes a light emitting unit configured to emit and output light. a light receiving unit configured to receive light, a substrate on which the light emitting unit and the light receiving unit are mounted, an electrically conductive pattern including a land to be electrically connected to an electrode of the light emitting unit, a resist arranged as a layer above the electrically conductive pattern or the substrate, a light shielding layer provided as a layer above the resist, and a light shielding region formed by a portion of the land and a portion of the light shielding layer overlapping in the direction of the normal of a mounting surface of the substrate, to shield stray light directed towards the substrate from the light emitting unit, the light shielding region.
Abstract:
A target measurement method for measuring a target contained in a sample, includes, when a solution containing a light-absorbing substance that absorbs excitation light that excites a fluorescent molecule or fluorescence emitted from the fluorescent molecule is in contact with a solid-phase surface of a substrate that is provided with a bound product of the target and a capture molecule specifically binding to the target which is modified with a fluorescent molecule, measuring a fluorescence obtained by irradiation of the excitation light from an opposite side to the solid-phase surface of the substrate from the opposite side to the solid-phase surface of the substrate.
Abstract:
The disclosure provides microstructured articles and methods useful for detecting an analyte in a sample. The articles include microwell arrays. The articles can be used with an optical system component in methods to detect or characterize an analyte.
Abstract:
An optochemical sensor comprises a measuring element excitable by the light of an excitation light source and in contact with a medium to be measured, and a measuring arrangement including at least one excitation light source and a detector as well as a hood separating the measuring arrangement from the measuring element, wherein the excitation light source and the detector are fixed to a base plate arranged in parallel with the measuring element, the hood, the excitation light source and the detector are separated from one another by at least a portion of the material thickness of the hood, and light from the excitation light source through an optical waveguide impinges on the measuring element at such an angle that fluorescence light emitted by the measuring element impinges perpendicularly on the detector.
Abstract:
A nephelometric turbidimeter with a cylindrical turbidimeter vial. The cylindrical turbidimeter vial includes a transparent vial body and a circular optical shielding configured to optically block an inside from an outside of the turbidimeter vial. The vial body comprises a transparent and flat bottom inlet window, and a transparent vial cylinder body. The vial cylinder body comprises a circular outlet window. The optical shielding is arranged axially above the outlet window of the vial cylinder body, over a part of an axial length of the vial cylinder body, and axially adjacent to a non-shielded part of the vial cylinder body which serves as the outlet window.