Abstract:
A hot cathode ionization pressure gauge with the following electrodes, arged at a distance from one another in the specified sequence along an axis:(a) a thermionic cathode filament which has a central active part and lateral support parts;(b) an essentially flat, diaphragm-like control electrode,(c) an essentially flat apertured acceleration electrode and(d) an essentially flat ion collector electrode,(e) a base plate on which the filament, the control electrode, the acceleration electrode and ion collector electrode are mounted,wherein the base plate consists of a ceramic material and has a plurality of through holes, and each of said control, acceleration and ion collector electrodes comprises a support member having essentially a shape of an inverted "U" with first and second legs, one of said legs of each electrode support member extending through a corresponding hole of said base plate and being fixed therein.
Abstract:
Volatile additives for vulcanized or unvulcanized rubber can be accurately identified by controlled heating of a test sample in a sealed vial equipped with an overhead collecting headspace, transferring the heated volatiles to a chromatograph column, and analyzing the separated volatile components emerging from the chromatograph column by various selective analytical detectors.
Abstract:
An ionization gauge and controller therefor where the gauge has a sensitivity which is reproducible gauge to gauge and stable over time in the same gauge. An ionization gauge with a very much lower and a somewhat higher pressure limit than prior art gauges is also disclosed. Elements are also described for launching all electrons in a tight beam in Bayard-Alpert type geometry, so that all the conditions for reproducible and stable sensitivity are satisfied. Elements are also described for collecting all electrons at low energy so that soft X-ray production is negligible.
Abstract:
An improved Bayard-Alpert type vacuum ionization tube includes an electron collecting grid surrounding and coaxial with a centrally located positive ion collector. The grid has an inner diameter of approximately 0.5 inches and an electron emitting filament is positioned outside of the grid and spaced from the grid by approximately 0.2 inches. A grounded shield screen surrounds the grid outside of the filament and is coaxial with the collector. The tube has constant vacuum gauging sensitivity over the range from 10 1 to 5 X 10 10 torr.
Abstract:
An ion guage comprising a conducting cylinder closed at one end; a pair of cathodes within the cylinder; a cylindrical grid between the cathodes and having a wire mesh peripheral walls relatively transparent to electrons, which grid is bounded at one end by a wire mesh wall and at the opposite end nearer the closed end of the conducting cylinder by an apertured metal wall; means adjacent to the aperture for extracting and converging ions, and an electrode for collecting extracted ions.
Abstract:
THE PARTIAL PRESSURE OF OXYGEN IS A HIGH VACUUM IS MEASURED WITH AN EMISSION ELECTRODE EMITTING "HEATED" ELECTONS AND DISPOSED IN A HEATING CIRCUIT IN ELECTRIC CIRCUIT WITH A COLLECTOR ELECTRODE. THE TEMPERATURE IS KEPT SO HIGH THAT OXYGEN ALONE IS ADSORBED ON THE EMITTER ELECTRODE. THE SYSTEM IS ADAPTABLE FOR MEASUREMENTS WITHIN A CHAMBER OF IN OUTER SPACE.
Abstract:
A magnetron ionization gauge having the capability of measuring ultrahigh vacuum of the order of 2 X 10 16 torr with high sensitivity and conversion constant is formed with a hollow cylindrical anode and an electron-containment ferromagnetic plate at either end of the anode. An ion-collector is centrally located within a cylindrical anode and extends the entire length thereof. An electron-emitting cathode is located off center between the ion-collector and the anode wall and parallel to the longitudinal axis. An ion-collector shield extends the entire length of the ion-collector and is interposed between the ion-collector and the electron-emitting filament. The device is biased well beyond cutoff to provide restricted curvilinear paths for ionizing the electrons circulating around inside the anode.