Atmospheric contaminant detector

Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting – deodorizing – preser – Analyzer – structured indicator – or manipulative laboratory... – Means for analyzing gas sample

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422 91, 422 94, 250343, 250345, 250372, 250374, 86 11, G01N 2163, G01J 328

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ABSTRACT:
This invention provides a means for detecting local atmospheric contaminants from safe distances. The invention means of a detector system comprise a pulsed laser, a sensitive photo-detector, various optical filters, and necessary digital control circuitry. The detector system employs laser technology in combination with a sensitive photo-detector to achieve detection of any hazardous gas elements or other pollutants remotely located from personnel who may subsequently be exposed. In operation, a pulsed laser or a tunable dye laser is employed as an excitation source for the contaminant or pollutant to achieve excitation of the contaminant or pollutant. When the excited molecule of the contaminant or pollutant returns to ground-state it emits a photon at a given (measurable) frequency. A sensitive photo-detector is filtered to permit detection of only the frequency at which a harmful gas (as an example of a contaminant or pollutant) fluoresces. Various filters can be utilized at once to enable the detector to detect more than one pollutant at a time. A timer in the system determines time elapse from the time the laser is pulsed to the time a photon is detected, the location of the gas pollutant can then be determined. Similarly, by relating distance and intensity of fluorescence via the detector, the density of the gas pollutant in the local atmosphere can be determined. The entire system is controlled by simple compact digital technology.

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