Automatic neutron activator analyzer

• US 3,315,077 A
• Filed: 08/14/1963
• Issued: 04/18/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harold J. Price, Robert E. Jones Jr
• Original Assignee: Harold J. Price, Robert E. Jones Jr
• Inventors: Jones, Robert E. Jr., Price, Harold J.
• Application Number:
  US04/302,182
• Time in Patent Office: 1,343 Days
• US Class Current: 250/393
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2223/0745 neutron-gamma activation analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2223/309 support of sample holder
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 23/222 using neutron activation analysis [NAA]
• CPC Class Codes: G21H 5/02 as tracers

Claims

1. IN AN ACTIVATION ANALYZER THE COMBINATION OF A SOURCE OF RADIATION, MEANS FOR DETECTING RADIATION INDUCED IN A SAMPLE BY SAID SOURCE OF RADIATION AND A TRANSFER MEANS MOUNTED ON A SUPPORTING MEANS, SAID TRANSFER MEANS DESIGNED TO TRANSFER A KNOWN AND AN UNKNOWN SAMPLE FROM AN EXPOSURE POSITION IN PREDETERMINED PROXIMITY TO THE RADIATION SOURCE TO A DETECTION POSITION OF PREDETERMINED PROXIMITY TO SAID DETECTING MEANS IN A MANNER TO PERMIT UNIFORM REPEATIBILITY WITH RESPECT TO TIME AND PROXIMITY, SAID TRANSFER MEANS INCLUDING MEANS FOR HOLDING A KNOWN AND AN UNKNOWN SAMPLE TO BE EXPOSED TO SAID RADIATION SOURCE AND TO BE CARRIED BY SAID TRANSFER MEANS TO SAID DETECTION MEANS.