Abstract:
A measuring device for immunochromatography test piece comprising an irradiation optical system for irradiating measurement light onto an immunochromatography test piece, and a detection optical system for detecting reflected light from the immunochromatography test piece under irradiation with the measurement light. The irradiation optical system comprises a semiconductor light emitting element, a beam shaping member, a lens, a first baffle portion, a second baffle portion, and a third baffle portion. The beam shaping member shapes light from the semiconductor light emitting element, into a beam of a beam section extending in a direction substantially parallel to a colored line formed on the immunochromatography test piece. The lens focuses the beam from the beam shaping member on the immunochromatography test piece. The first baffle portion removes stray light, which is disposed between the semiconductor light emitting element and the beam shaping member. The second baffle portion removes stray light, which is disposed between the beam shaping member and the lens. The third baffle portion removes stray light, which is disposed between the lens and the immunochromatography test piece.
Abstract:
Motion of an object of interest, such as a cell, has a variable velocity that can be varied on a cell-by-cell basis. Cell velocity is controlled in one example by packing cells into a capillary tube, or any other linear substrate that provides optically equivalent 360 degree viewing access, so that the cells are stationary within the capillary tube, but the capillary tube is translated and rotated mechanically through a variable motion optical tomography reconstruction cylinder. The capillary tube motion may advantageously be controlled in a start-and-stop fashion and translated and rotated at any velocity for any motion interval, under the control of a computer program. As such, there are several configurations of the optical tomography system that take advantage of this controlled motion capability. Additionally, the use of polarization filters and phase plates to reduce light scatter and diffraction background noise is described.
Abstract:
Apparatus for detecting particulates (46) within a medium in a chamber (10) comprises a photo-detector (14) which is maintained at a stable low temperature by a Peltier type cooling device (42). Scattered light from the particulate (46) is focused by a spherical lens (34) onto the input face (30) of a rod lens (22). The latter has an optical pitch of 0.5 and transfers the image to its output face (25) whence it passes via a light pipe (18) to the sensitive area (16) of the photo-electric device (14). The rod lens (22) provides an inexpensive means for transferring the light and which provides a thermal barrier. Thus, although the photo-electric device (14) is held at a low temperature, the input face (30) of the rod lens (22) can be held at the temperature of the medium within the chamber (10) and is not subjected to the formation of mist or ice. The lens (34) is mounted by means of a collar ( 28) which is slidable into a position in which the lens (34) focuses the input light into the face (30) of the lens (22), and then secured in this position by ultra-violet-cured adhesive fillets (32, 34).
Abstract:
A moisture sensing assembly, adapted for mounting on the inner surface of a vehicle window or windshield to control vehicle accessories such as windshield wipers, maximizes the window are a being sensed while minimizing the size of the overall assembly. In the preferred embodiment, moisture on the outer window surface is detected by stacked rows of infrared energy receiving sensors spaced in angular relationship from stacked rows of infrared energy emitting diodes. The emitter diodes and sensors are preferably carried in separate emitter and detector mounting blocks slidably fitted in a rigid carrier. The sensor row closest to the window receives energy from the diode emitter row farthest from the window and vice versa. Energy barrier walls are provided in the diode and sensor support for blocking energy reflected by the inside window surface. The assembly is adapted for use with an electrical circuit which operates one emitter diode row and its corresponding sensor row while the other emitter and sensor rows are deactivated to prevent interference and false reflected signals from the other emitter row. Removable attachment to the window with a circular member provides ease of installation and improved positioning and orientation of the sensing assembly.
Abstract:
The present invention contemplates an arrangement for analyzing a plurality of components in a single specimen which comprises placing a diluted specimen into a storage cup which is part of a sample carrier system, containing storage and reaction cups, transferring aliquots of the diluted solutions of the sample from the storage to the reaction cups, presenting the rows of the reaction cups to a work station, sequentially, adding a reagent to each of the reaction cups and moving the reaction cups into a work field where beams of light passing through the various reaction cups can be scanned and the components contained in the reaction cups can be assayed by means of a single detector attached to a computer and print-out system.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an optical flow cell for a measuring device, having an input light guide with a light exit surface, an output light guide with a light entrance surface, said input light guide and output light guide being integrated with a holder to form an optical flow cell, and wherein the holder extends along a first axis and has a through hole for receiving a flow of a sample fluid, said through hole being transversal to said first axis, and the input light guide and output light guide further are arranged in said holder so that the light exit surface and the light entrance surface extend into said through hole and are arranged to be in optical alignment with each other and at a first distance from each other. The invention also relates to a measuring device having at least one optical flow cell.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for correction of relative object-detector motion between successive views during optical tomographic imaging in three dimensions. An object of interest is illuminated to produce an image. A lateral offset correction value is determined for the image. An axial offset correction value is determined for the image. The lateral offset correction value and the axial offset correction value are applied to the image to produce a corrected file image.
Abstract:
Motion of an object of interest, such as a cell, has a variable velocity that can be varied on a cell-by-cell basis. Cell velocity is controlled in one example by packing cells into a capillary tube, or any other linear substrate that provides optically equivalent 360 degree viewing access, so that the cells are stationary within the capillary tube, but the capillary tube is translated and rotated mechanically through a variable motion optical tomography reconstruction cylinder. The capillary tube motion may advantageously be controlled in a start-and-stop fashion and translated and rotated at any velocity for any motion interval, under the control of a computer program. As such, there are several configurations of the optical tomography system that take advantage of this controlled motion capability. Additionally, the use of polarization filters and phase plates to reduce light scatter and diffraction background noise is described.