Abstract:
Amine-oxides of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are alkyl groups with 1 to 4 C-atoms, R.sub.3 is hydrogen, a hydroxyl group or an alkoxy group with 1 to 4 C-atoms and m and n are whole numbers which fulfil the conditions 1.ltoreq.m.ltoreq.8 and 0.ltoreq.n.ltoreq.4 respectively, with the proviso that n is not 0 if R.sub.3 is a hydroxyl group or an alkoxy group, can be used with advantage for the preparation of mouldable or spinnable cellulose solutions which have a reduced tendency to crystallise.
Abstract translation:具有以下通式的胺氧化物:其中R 1和R 2是具有1至4个C原子的烷基,R 3是氢,羟基或具有1至4个C原子的烷氧基,m和 n是分别满足条件1 = m = 8和0 = n = 4的整数,条件是如果R3是羟基或烷氧基,则n不为0,可以是 有利地用于制备具有降低的结晶倾向的可塑或可纺纤维素溶液。
Abstract:
A multichannel imaging spectrometer for airborne geological, geophysical and environmental surveys in a moving vehicle. An optical scanner employs a rotating polygon allowing reduced scan optics with increased data acquisition efficiency. Multiple spectrometers integrally registered allow channelization of the received signal to optimize noise performance in the range from ultraviolet through infrared. Output data is in a form for recording and real time display. A staring mode configuration provides enhanced sensitivity by using a two-dimensional detector array and adjustable mirror orientation. A scanning mode embodiment employs a two-dimensional detector array with time delay integration and three-dimensional storage of temporal spatial data and spectral wavelength and intensity. Thus, all channels are acquired simultaneously, resulting in perfect band-to-band registration with continuous spectral curves over the field of view. On-board real-time absolute radiometric calibration is provided by an integral reflective white plate and radiometrically and spectrally calibrated light source illuminating a column of detectors independent of illumination by the target during the scan cycle. Dark current measurement is achieved in both the scan and stare modes by an auxiliary detector column.
Abstract:
Power supplies for generating a stream of electrical pulses in which successive pulses have opposite polarities. The pulses are formed and outputted from pulse generating circuitry which has two complementary pairs of MOSFETs arranged in an H-bridge configuration. Other major components of the power supply are voltage regulators for supplying positive and negative operating pulses with selected, precisely controlled voltages to the driver and watchdog circuits for disenabling the pulse outputting circuitry if: the frequency of the operating pulses deviate from a selected range, the widths of the operating pulses exceed a selected maximum, extraneous pulses are present, or the voltage of the operating pulses falls below or exceeds selected maximums. In one important application, the power supply is employed to drive the emitter of an infrared radiation source.
Abstract:
A transparent carrier body of a diode-array spectrometer having a concave grating is configured as a biconvex lens and the diode array is mounted at a distance (d) to a second convex surface lying opposite the concave grating. Preferably, the radii of curvature (r.sub.1, r.sub.2) differ from each other only slightly. A simplified manufacture and adjustment is possible with good optical correction.
Abstract:
A method of measuring and compensating stray light in absorbance analysis that use a multiple element array detector wherein one or more of the elements of the diode array are utilized to detect stray radiation in the absence of primary radiation including higher order diffracted radiation. In one aspect, the atmosphere is used to filter all primary radiation below a particular wavelength so that one or more array elements corresponding to detection below such wavelength can be dedicated to the detection of only stray radiation. Detection of higher order diffractions can be prevented by dividing the total spectrum into intervals and detecting these intervals in sequence. In another aspect, a diode array is designed to include additional elements along one side of the array outside the exposure of the primary radiation for the sole purpose of detecting stray radiation.
Abstract:
An IR-spectrometric analyzing procedure, the measuring absorbance and reference absorbance being detected simultaneously from an IR light beam conducted to pass through the sample and diffracted to a spectrum. An IR spectrometer comprising a light source (1), a sample cuvette (5), a diffraction member (6), detectors (7) and a calculating means (9) for determining the content values of the sample corresponding to the measuring absorbance, the detectors (7) having been arranged to detect the measuring absorbance and the reference absorbance simultaneously from the beam that has passed through the sample and been diffracted to a spectrum.
Abstract:
A polychromator in a Paschen-Runge mounting in which intensity measurements are made by means of a row of photodiodes. The spectral intensity distribution of at least two spectral regions on the Rowland circle is transmitted to the row of photodiodes by image conductors and is measured there.
Abstract:
A photodiode array spectrometer comprises an arry (40) of photosensitive elements for receiving a beam of light. Light impinging on a photodiode causes discharging of the associated capacitors. The capacitors are recharged periodically by a charge amplifier via a video line (30) by closing transfer switches (SW1, . . . , SW 768) associated with the photosensitive elements, repectively. The switches are group together in several segments which are independently addressable such that during a recharge scan only selected groups of photodioldes are recharged. The information which segments are to be sctivated, i.e. which groups of switches are to be closed, is contained in a segment control block (43). An integration control block (46) additionally permits to adjust the time intervals between successive recharge cycles separately for each selected segment. The invention permits to select regions of interest of the photodiode array for a specific application, whereas other regions are ignored for that application, leading to a reduced data rate with high spectral resolution and sensitivity.
Abstract:
To improve the accuracy and reduce the sensitivity of interference absorptions in a method for determining the concentration of formaldehyde in a medium by an absorption measurement in the range of at least one characteristic absorption band of the formaldehyde and, in the appropriate instance, subtraction of an interference absorption which is determined by at least one absorption measurement in a wavelength range outside of the characteristic absorption band of the formaldehyde, it is proposed that a discharge be maintained at a current strength of several milliamperes in a hollow-cathode lamp filled with molecular nitrogen at a pressure of less than 2 millibar to generate the radiation for the absorption measurement, that the absorption measurement be performed on at least two different characteristic absorption bands of the formaldehyde with absorption coefficients at a previously known ratio to one another which lie in the range of emissions of the gas discharge in the hollow-cathode lamp, that the ratio of the actual absorptions measured on the characteristic absorption bands be formed and compared with the previously known ratio, that in the event of non-coincidence with the previously known ratio, the interference absorption be determined and subtracted from the measured absorptions, and that in the event of coincidence with the previously known ratio, the concentration of the formaldehyde be determined from the measured absorption values or, if interference absorptions are to be subtracted, from the absorption values which have been reduced by the interference absorption.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a spectrometer/colorimeter apparatus comprising an opto-electronic card (12) with the essential components of the apparatus mounted thereon, and in particular a spectrometer (14) having an inlet slot (16) and a strip (18) of photodetectors (20), and two optical fiber measurement paths (28) and two calibration paths (26), with the ends of the optical fibers being superposed in the inlet slot (16) of the spectrometer. The apparatus is particularly intended for use in an industrial environment.