Analysis apparatus

• US 8,698,085 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2009
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ouchi, Toshihiko, Takeda, Toshihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): TANINGCO, MARCUS H
• Application Number:
  US13/124,122
• Publication Number:
  US 20110198501A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,579 Days
• Field of Search: 250/343
• US Class Current: 250/343
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2010/0083 for taking gas samples
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0238 Optical sensor arrangements for performing transmission measurements on body tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0059 using light, e.g. diagnosis by transillumination, diascopy, fluorescence A61B5/0093, A61B5/1455, A61B5/02416 and A61B5/0261 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/444 Evaluating skin marks, e.g. mole, nevi, tumour, scar
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6825 Hand
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/726 using Wavelet transforms
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 1/405 by adsorption or absorption
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/3504 for analysing gases, e.g. multi-gas analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/3581 using far infrared light; using Terahertz radiation
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/497 of gaseous biological material, e.g. breath

Abstract

An analysis apparatus for analyzing a gas by a terahertz wave or an infrared ray comprises a generator for generating the terahertz wave or the infrared ray; a trapping unit having a trapping film for trapping a gas and being placed to be capable of causing interaction between the gas trapped by the trapping film and the terahertz wave or infrared ray generated by the generator; and a detector for detecting the interaction of the gas with the terahertz wave or infrared ray; wherein the trapping unit comprises a structure for contact with a site evolving the gas; and the structure holds the trapping film separately from the site.

Claims

1. An apparatus for time domain spectroscopy comprising:

a generator for generating a pulsed terahertz wave or an infrared ray;

a trapping unit including first and second trapping films and being capable of placing the first and second trapping films such that the first trapping film is irradiated with the terahertz wave or infrared ray generated by the generator and the second trapping film is irradiated with the terahertz wave or infrared ray transmitted through the first trapping film;

a detector for detecting the terahertz wave or infrared ray which has interacted with a first gas which has been trapped by the first trapping film and a second gas which has been trapped by the second trapping film, wherein the second gas is different from the first gas; and

a processing unit for obtaining a temporal waveform from a detection result of the detector and for obtaining information on types or properties of the first and second gases;

wherein the trapping unit comprises a structure for contact with a site evolving the gas,

wherein the structure is provided to hold the trapping films separately from the site, and

wherein the processing unit obtains information on the first gas based on a pulse from the first trapping film in the temporal waveform and obtains information on the second gas based on a pulse from the second trapping film in the temporal waveform.

2. The analysis apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a part of the trapping films contain a water-repelling porous material or a hygroscopic material for trapping water vapor.

3. The analysis apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the structure is capable of forming a space for collecting the gas to be trapped by the trapping films between the trapping films and the site, and the terahertz wave generated by the generator transmits outside the space.

4. The analysis apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the analysis apparatus has a waveguide for transmitting the terahertz wave or infrared ray generated by the generator, and the trapping films are placed in the region in which the electric field of the terahertz wave or infrared ray transmitting in the waveguide is influential.

5. The analysis apparatus according to claim 3, which further comprises a reflection unit for reflecting the transmitting terahertz wave or infrared ray, and the reflection unit is placed to reflect the transmitting terahertz wave or infrared ray plural times.

6. The analysis apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the structure has a first flow path for introducing a gas from outside the structure, and a second flow path for discharging a gas existing between the structure and the site by the gas introduced from the first flow path.

7. The analysis apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a film positioned between the trapping films and the site, which film contains a water-repelling material or a hygroscopic material.