Abstract: An arrangement for making gas spectroscopic measurements includes a laser diode driven by a modulated control current, a monitor diode, a detector unit for receiving a measurement signal of the transmitted radiation and a lock-in amplifier. The method utilizing the above arrangement is improved in that the offset component in the output signal of the lock-in amplifier is eliminated. This is achieved in that the radiation power of the laser diode is controlled to a pregiven modulation profile with the monitor diode functioning as an actual-value transducer.

Abstract: A gas mask and breathing equipment air cleaning cartridge (1) with a carbon dioxide-binding chemical packing (4) and an insert (3). The insert has legs (6) arranged in a radiate pattern perpendicularly to the direction of flow. The legs (6) have a flexibility that compensates for differences in the filling ratios of the strands (5) of chemical and have an identical bent zigzag-shaped designs to provide good heat distribution in the circumferential direction and good resistance to vibrations and shocks.

Abstract: A filling device for anesthetic vaporizers, with a connection piece which can be connected to a connection opening of an anesthetic reservoir in a gas-tight and liquid-tight manner. Leakage of anesthetic gas or liquid anesthetic can be avoided during the filling especially of low-boiling anesthetics by providing the reservoir 10 with a seal 17, which closes the connection opening 9 at least in a liquid-tight manner and can be opened by a projection 5 which is arranged on the connection piece 2 and extends into the interior space of the connection opening 9, as soon as the connection piece 2 is sealed off from the surroundings against the connection opening 9 by a sealing element 15 in a gas-tight and liquid-tight manner.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a measuring sensor for detecting gaseous components which operates in the diffusion limit current region. The measuring sensor includes a support body and has an electrolyte chamber partitioned by a diffusion membrane from the ambient containing the gaseous components. The measuring electrode of the measuring sensor is improved so that a simpler manipulation for covering the electrolyte chamber with a membrane is possible without endangering the mechanical stability of the membrane. During operation, the detection operation is intended to take place completely at that electrode surface which is in direct electrochemical exchange communication with the electrolyte supply. For this purpose, the coating is configured as an adherent layer to the support body so that it forms an impermeable adherence region in the lateral direction between coating and support body.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a cooling device for cooling breathing gas in a respiratory protection device with a heat collector exposed to the breathing gas stream. Such a cooling device is to be improved such that it can be prepared for cooling at any desired time prior to putting the respiratory protection device into operation, and that cold storage of a coolant is not required. The improvement is achieved by designing the heat collector as a storage tank for an evaporable liquid, which can be connected to an evacuated adsorbent container such that the liquid will evaporate while absorbing heat of vaporization, and its vapor is adsorbed on an adsorbent contained in the adsorbent container while releasing heat of adsorption and heat of condensation, wherein the adsorbent container is designed as a cooling body that is arranged outside the breathing gas stream and is intended to release the heat into the surroundings.

Abstract: A process for calibrating a flow sensor in a respiratory system, with final control elements arranged in the respiratory system for influencing the respiration gas stream, is to be improved in terms of the influence of the qualitative gas composition of the respiration gas. To accomplish the task, the final control elements 4, 11 are switched, for calibration, over to a closed respiratory system with directed respiration gas stream. The drive unit 13 feeds the respiration gas present in the respiratory system through the flow sensor 9 according to a predetermined time-volume relationship. A calibration value for the flow sensor 9 is formed by comparison of the time-volume relationship with the measured signal of the flow sensor 9.

Abstract: A metering device for a liquid anesthetic that is fed from a reservoir via a supply line into a heatable intermediate container maintained under pressure, from which gaseous anesthetic is fed via a metering valve into a fresh gas line. Accurate metering, which can be better monitored, is provided for low-boiling anesthetics. A supply unit 7 is mounted in the supply line 5, and liquid anesthetic is transported by the supply unit 7 into the intermediate container 6 until it is filled up to a predetermined filling level. A heating device 12 stabilizes the temperature of the liquid bath and ensures a sufficiently high vapor pressure of the gaseous anesthetic above the liquid phase. The anesthetic vapor is sent via the metering valve into the fresh gas line.

Abstract: An air-cleaning cartridge for treating respiration air with a chemical as a packing, whose housing wall consists at least partially of an expandable, elastic material, is to be improved such that the size can be increased in a controlled manner prior to filling with the chemical, in order to achieve a reproducible contracting force of the expanded housing and in order to prolong the ready-to-use storage time of the cartridge. To achieve this, a pressure connection 7, through which a compressed gas can be introduced into the housing designed as a film bag 1, 1' in order to expand it to a predetermined volume, can be connected to one of the connections 2. The chemical 5 is filled from the filling chamber 3 into the pressurized, expanded film bag 1. After releasing the internal pressure into the atmosphere, the film bag tightly surrounds the packing introduced on all sides (Figure).

Abstract: A metering pump for metering low-boiling liquids, especially liquid anesthetics provides continuous metering of liquid. To achieve this, the pump chamber 7 is maintained at a temperature below the boiling point of the liquid by means of a cooling device 14, preferably a Peltier cell.

Abstract: An anesthetic metering device is provided with a temperature-stabilized anesthetic vapor source, from which anesthetic vapor 14 is metered into a carrier gas stream via a delivery line 8 with a metering valve 11 that can be controlled by a control unit 6. The arrangement is provided so that uncontrolled evaporation of anesthetic is prevented. To accomplish this task, the anesthetic vapor source is designed as a vaporizer chamber 2 filled with liquid anesthetic 3, and a gas delivery element 9 generating the metering pressure P.sub.I is present in front of the metering valve 11.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an electrochemical measuring cell for measuring ammonia or hydrazine and includes at least a measuring electrode and a counter electrode in an electrolyte. The measuring cell provides a signal increase having a shorter response time and an improved signal stability. For this purpose, the electrolyte is an aqueous solution of a hygroscopic salt of an alkali metal or earth alkali metal such as calcium nitrate or lithium nitrate or a mixture of both salts.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a measuring sensor for detecting gaseous components which operates in the diffusion limit current region. The measuring sensor includes a support body and has an electrolyte chamber partitioned by a diffusion membrane from the ambient containing the gaseous components. The measuring electrode of the measuring sensor is improved so that a simpler manipulation for covering the electrolyte chamber with a membrane is possible without endangering the mechanical stability of the membrane. During operation, the detection operation is intended to take place completely at that electrode surface which is in direct electrochemical exchange communication with the electrolyte supply. For this purpose, the coating is configured as an adherence joiner to the support body so that it forms an impermeable adherence region in the lateral direction between coating and support body.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of operating a laser diode in a measuring system for spectroscopically measuring the concentration of a gaseous component in a gas sample. This method is improved in that the mode jumps of the laser diode are easily recognized when adjusting the temperature-current operating point of the laser diode. An optical filter is placed in the beam path for adjusting the temperature-current operating point of the laser diode and, by changing the temperature T and the operating current I of the laser diode while simultaneously receiving the output signal supplied by an evaluation unit, the spectral positions of the mode jumps of the laser diode are determined which are included in the absorption lines of the gas sample. Thereafter, the temperature-current operating point is adjusted so that the distance of this operating point to the positions of the mode jumps is not less than a fixed spacing.

Abstract: An anesthetic metering device with a bypass stream 5 passed from a gas inlet opening 2 via a bypass valve 3 to a gas discharge opening 4 and with a vaporizer chamber stream 7 flowing from a vaporizer chamber 6 via an adjusting device. Accurate metering is possible even in the case of anesthetics with low boiling points by manufacturing the vaporizer chamber 6 at least at the saturation vapor pressure of the anesthetic 22. The adjusting device includes a differential pressure transducer 9 connected on both sides of the bypass valve 3 and a metering valve 10, wherein the metering valve 10 is actuated by the output quantity 11 of the differential pressure transducer 9 via a proportional member 12 so that the concentration is adjusted via the variable transmission ratio of the proportional member 12.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an electrochemical measuring cell for determining ammonia or hydrazine in a gaseous or liquid measuring sample. The measuring cell has at least one measuring electrode and at least one counter electrode which are disposed in an electrolyte chamber filled with a soluble electrolyte containing a cobalt salt dissolved therein. The electrolyte chamber is closed off in the direction facing toward the measuring sample by a permeable membrane. The measuring cell provides a selective ammonia measurement having the following advantages: a short response time, a linear response and a low tendency to drift. The electrodes of the measuring cell are so configured that the oxidation of the ammonia as a measurement reaction has no influence on the sensitivity of the measuring cell. For this purpose, at least the measuring electrode is provided with a coating containing cobalt oxide which is in direct contact with the electrolyte.

Abstract: A moisture indicator for indicating the state of moisture loading of an oxygen-releasing chemical in a respiratory protection device which contains the peroxide of an alkali metal as the substance is to be improved such that it will indicate an irreversible and clearly recognizable color change and will respond to the intrusion of even small amounts of moisture. To accomplish this task, the substance contains as the reactive substance an additive in the form of an alkali metal ozonide that engages in a color reaction with moisture present in the air.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a transport incubator for accommodating prematures and newborns in a compartment wherein the temperature is controlled by means of an energy store which is in thermal contact with the compartment. The transport incubator is improved in that the energy store is made as small and as light as possible and does not have to be supplied with energy continuously in the operating condition. In addition, the transport incubator can be produced at low cost while utilizing environmentally friendly materials. The energy store is configured as an adsorption vessel containing an adsorption material. For generating the heat to be supplied to the infant compartment, the adsorption vessel can be connected to a supply vessel which contains a fluid which is adsorbing on the adsorbing vessel while giving off adsorption heat.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a measuring cell for electrochemically detecting a gas sample and has at least one measuring electrode and one counter electrode disposed in a housing defining a chamber filled with an electrolyte. The measuring cell also includes a protective disc which is at least partially permeable and is improved so that the configuration of the measuring cell is substantially simpler and is of reduced volume without reducing the ion mobility in the electrolyte and with a significant supply of the electrolyte. The counter electrode is in the form of a layer and is applied to a region of the protective disc facing toward the electrolyte. this region is impermeable to the gas sample and the electrolyte. The counter electrode is further electrically insulated from the measuring electrode and is in permanent contact with the electrolyte. Only the measuring electrode and the diffusion membrane are applied to a region of the protective disc which is permeable to the gas sample.

Abstract: A pressure regulator or pressure element with a valve, whose valve closing body 10 separates an admission pressure chamber 2 from a back pressure chamber 3, has a diaphragm 12 that is under spring pressure in the opening direction of the valve closing body 10. The diaphragm 12 separates the back pressure chamber from a reference pressure chamber 4 which is filled with a gas that is under such pressure that its ability to expand compensates the temperature dependence of the compressive force of the spring in order to compensate the pressing force of the compression spring 13, which changes with changing temperature.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a testing and measuring device for colorimetrically detecting gases on a carrier which is impregnated with a solution of a moisture store and a detecting indicator. The testing and measuring device is improved in that the moisture on the indicator carrier needed for the detecting reaction is maintained over a longer time span during storage in the unused condition as well as during measurement under the action of the gaseous substance to be detected. For this purpose, the impregnating solution is composed of the detecting indicator and a mixture of sulfolane and diethylphthalate as a moisture store. For measuring hydride gases, the indicator comprises a palladium tetramine chloride. The impregnating solution is applied to a paper carrier or to a granular silica gel carrier.