Abstract: A photometer device including an inlet passage for receiving a fluid such as an aerosol at a specified flow rate, an outlet passage separated from the inlet passage by a gap, and a radiation passage across the gap. The flow rate and the significant dimension of the inlet passage are set to produce a laminar flow of the aerosol. The gap and the significant dimension of the outlet passage are set to maintain a laminar flow of the aerosol across the gap to prevent contamination of the radiation passage.
Abstract: A motion-based input system including a motion sensor coupled to a device. The motion sensor provides a motion signal corresponding to the movement of the device. The system further includes a processor responsive to the motion signal and configured to distinguish between a tap command and a position command and provides, in response to a tap command, one or more actions, and in response to a position command, one or more different actions to control and operate the device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 25, 2002
Date of Patent:
March 1, 2005
Assignee:
Caveo Technology LLC.
Inventors:
Christopher Verplaetse, W. David Lee, Thomas P. Evans, Jerry Nicholas Laneman
Abstract: A three-axis radiation detection system whose inner and outer electrodes are shaped and positioned so that the shortest path between any point on the inner electrode and the outer electrode is a different length whereby the rise time of a pulse derived from a detected radiation event can uniquely define the azimuthal and radial position of that event, and the outer electrode is divided into a plurality of segments in the longitudinal axial direction for locating the axial location of a radiation detection event occurring in the diode.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 11, 1998
Date of Patent:
August 8, 2000
Assignee:
EG&G Instruments, Inc.
Inventors:
Mario Pierangelo Martini, Dale A. Gedcke, Thomas W. Raudorf, Pat Sangsingkeow