Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1994-09-26
1998-02-10
Voeltz, Emanuel T.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
250339, 330278, 374128, H03M 118
Patent
active
057176086
ABSTRACT:
An automatic gain control technique integrates samples of an incoming analog signal a controlled amount of time so that the magnitudes of the samples lie within the desired input window of an analog-to-digital converter or other signal processing device. The values of the samples are then determined from a combination of the output of the signal processing device and their integration time. This is utilized in a system for determining the temperature of a surface of an object, without contacting the surface, by measuring the level of its infra-red radiation emission. A particular application of the system is to measure the temperature of a semiconductor wafer within a processing chamber while forming integrated circuits on it. The measuring system is configured on a single printed circuit board with an extra height metal heat sink structure to which a cooling unit is mounted. A photodetector and a circuit chip which performs the signal integrations are mounted within the cooling unit and operated at a uniform temperature. The combination of the variable time integration and cooling techniques greatly increases the signal-to-noise ratio of the measuring system. This allows surface temperature measurements to be made down to about 250.degree. C. by measuring object emissions at slightly less than one micron in wavelength, conditions which provide signal levels which are normally too weak to measure accurately.
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Luxtron Corporation
Miller Craig Steven
Voeltz Emanuel T.
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