WEIGHT RELEASE DEVICE
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240101235A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-28

    申请号:US18276042

    申请日:2022-03-03

    IPC分类号: B63G8/00

    CPC分类号: B63G8/001 B63B2211/02

    摘要: Provided with a weight release device capable of being operated in deep sea same as the conventional weight release device without accompanying a mechanical operation at all to avoid troubles of mechanical operation occurred in the conventional weight release device. The weight release device includes a housing fixed to the underwater observation device; a thread made of thermoplastic resin; electric heater portions; a weight support plate; a locking member of the thread made of the thermoplastic resin; and a ring for hanging the weight. The thread made of the thermoplastic resin is arranged from a start point housed in the housing, arranged to pass through the first electric heater portion, locked to the locking member of the thread made of the thermoplastic resin, arranged to pass through the second electric heater portion housed in the housing, and returned to an end point housed in the housing. The ring for hanging the weight is fixed to a lower surface of the weight support plate. The weight is released only by conducting an electricity through the electric heater portion to release the weight for floating the underwater observation device.

    DEVICE FOR DETECTING CONTAMINATION WITH PHOTOSYNTHESIS INHIBITOR AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CONTAMINATION WITH PHOTOSYNTHESIS INHIBITOR

    公开(公告)号:US20220163450A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-26

    申请号:US17430244

    申请日:2020-02-06

    IPC分类号: G01N21/64

    摘要: The present invention provides a device (1) for detecting contamination with a photosynthesis inhibitor, the device including a collection device (10) configured to collect a test liquid, a light-blocking pretreatment tank (21) configured to store the test liquid (2) collected by the collection device in a state of containing phytoplankton, a stirring device configured to maintain a floating state of the phytoplankton in the test liquid stored in the pretreatment tank, an irradiation light source configured to irradiate the phytoplankton in the test liquid stored in the pretreatment tank with weak light having an underwater photon flux density that does not cause photoinhibition, a drainage conduit (40) configured to allow the test liquid discharged from the pretreatment tank to flow thereinto, and a fluorescence quantum efficiency measuring machine (50) provided for the drainage conduit and configured to measure a fluorescence quantum efficiency of the phytoplankton in the test liquid discharged from the pretreatment tank, and a method for detecting contamination with a photosynthesis inhibitor, the method including a liquid supply step, a storing and weak-light irradiation step, and a fluorescence quantum efficiency measurement step.