摘要:
The method includes the steps of assembling one or more blanks (1) in supporting means (2, 3) so that the or each blank occupies at least the space to be occupied by elongate electrodes and, without disturbing the position of the blanks relative to said supporting means, removing material from all said blanks to generate said electrodes in position in said supporting means. Preferably the material is removed by an electrode-discharge machining (EDM) process, e.g. diesinking. The method avoids time-consuming alignment of preformed electrodes in said supporting means.
摘要:
In a mass spectrometer, an aperture defining a beam path to a particle detector (4) is defined by a fixed aperture (5) and a cover (6) mounted on respective carriage assemblies (50,49) running along a beam 46. When a shaft (36) drives carriage (50), a rod (22) on carriage (49) is engaged by an end of a slot (21) of carriage (50), so that both carriages can be moved to a desired aperture location. After reaching this position, carriage (50) may be moved in the opposite direction, within a range defined by the length of the slot (22), without causing movement of carriage (49), to vary the amount by which member (6) covers member (5) and to thereby define a desired aperture width. A plurality of carriages can be coupled to one another in this manner to form a chain of apertures whose positions and widths may be varied independently using a single drive shaft (36). The fixed aperture (5) and cover ( 6) may be replaced by a pair of opposed aperture-edge defining members in the same plane.
摘要:
A sensor based on the technique of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) comprises an SPR device, a source of electromagnetic radiation from which radiation can be directed onto the device, and a detector to measure the intensity of radiation reflected from the SPR device. The electromagnetic radiation directed onto the SPR device contains both Transverse Electric-polarized and Transverse Electric-polarized components. A polarization analyzer is interposed between the device and the detector such that, at angles away from resonance, little or no light reaches the detector. The sensor is particularly useful in the qualitative and/or quantitative determination of biological, biochemical or chemical analytes.
摘要:
In the elemental analysis of an analyte present in a sample by optical or mass spectrometry, a nebulizer sprays the liquid sample into a chamber which has a wall transparent to infra-red radiation. Infra-red radiation from a heater external to the chamber is focused on to the droplets of sample as they emerge from the nebulizer, disrupting the droplets into smaller ones and evaporating solvent from them as they pass through the chamber. The thus desolvated sample stream is delivered into a plasma and the reaction accuracy within the plasma is qualified by the spectrometer.
摘要:
An aerosol inhalation device, having a mouthpiece (12) and a canister (15) of pressurized hygroscopic medicament, the canister (15) being fitted at one end with a dispensing metering valve; wherein a protective barrier (19) is provided between the dispensing metering valve and the mouthpiece (12) so as to eliminate or substantially reduce blockage of the device.
摘要:
A collision cell for observing the emission spectrum of ions. The substantially enclosed collision cell (8) is bounded by a wall (46), the wall having an entrance aperture (47) and an exit aperture (29) through which an ion beam (5) may be passed to traverse the collision cell, and has an observation region (15) therein adjacent to the entrance aperture and a first window (22) in the wall through which radiation generated in the observation region may pass, and, disposed adjacent to the exit aperture and in communication with the observation region, an exit region (16) comprising radiation-trapping means for minimizing the transmission to the first window of radiation generated in the exit region. The collision cell may be incorporated in a conventional mass spectrometer.
摘要:
A sensor for electrical charge fabricated as an integrated circuit and including an electrode (1) for receiving charge, a potential-sensitive switching device (2) for generating a pulse whenever the charge received on the electrode (1) is sufficiently great, a counting device (4) for counting the number of times the switching device operates, and a member (3) for restoring the potential on the electrode (1) to its initial potential each time the switching device (3) operates and/or continuously towards its initial potential. An integrated circuit having an array of such sensors and digital logic for controlling their operation is included. The array may be used as a multiple-channel detector for charged particles, particularly as a detector for electrons emerging from a channel plate electron multiplier. Dispersive particle and photon spectrometers, especially mass spectrometers, using such a detector are also provided.
摘要:
A mass spectrometer comprising ion source means (1) for producing ions characteristic of a sample to be analysed; ion detector means (14) for receiving at least some of said ions; magnetic sector analyzing means (18) and electrostatic analyzing means (8) disposed in any order between said ion source means (1) and said ion detector means (14); wherein said magnetic sector analyzing means (18) comprises means for dispersing ions according to their mass-to-charge ratios and for transmitting ions whose mass-to-charge ratios lie within a predetermined range and have a first kinetic energy; said electrostatic analyzing means (8) comprises means for generating an electrostatic field for deflecting ions having different kinetic energies around different curved trajectories such that ions having a second kinetic energy, lower than said first kinetic energy, are deflected around a central curved trajectory (15) and transmitted through said electrostatic analyzing means (8), and the strength of said electrostatic field is substantially equal to the strength of a similar reference field multiplied by the ratio of said second and said first kinetic energies when the strength of said reference field is that necessary to deflect ions having said first kinetic energy around said central curved trajectory (15); and means (11) are provided prior to said magnetic sector analyzing means for changing the kinetic energy of ions to said first kinetic energy and (4) prior to said electrostatic analyzing means for changing the kinetic energy of ions to said second kinetic energy.
摘要:
There are described compounds of formula I, ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 represents hydrogen, alkyl, alkanoyl or alkyl substituted by Ar.sub.1,R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5, which may be the same or different, each independently represent hydrogen, alkyl or Ar.sub.3,Ar.sub.1, Ar.sub.2 and Ar.sub.3, which may be the same or different, independently represent phenyl or phenyl substituted by one or more of alkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, NR.sub.6 R.sub.7 or halogen,R.sub.6 and R.sub.7, which may be the same or different, independently represent hydrogen or alkyl,and pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof.Compositions containing the compounds and methods for their preparation are also described.The compounds are indicated for use as pharmaceutical, e.g. anti-inflammatory, agents.
摘要:
There are provided paraethylamine phenol compounds of formula I, ##STR1## and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof. There are also described the use of the compounds of formula I as pharmaceuticals, methods for making the compounds and pharmaceutical, e.g. cardiac, compositions containing the compounds.