Abstract: A sensor and associated methods wherein a bolt or rod stem includes a flow path through and across the stem. A source of radiation within the stem is configured to direct radiation through the flow path and a detector subsystem in the stem is configured to detect radiation passing through the flow path. A head includes electrical conductors for the radiation source and detector subsystem resulting in a compact, inexpensive sensor.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 8, 2013
Publication date:
April 9, 2015
Applicant:
Spectro, Inc.
Inventors:
Aniruddha S. Weling, Russell S. Girgenti, Matthew B. Fratkin, Patrick F. Henning
Abstract: A route based analysis system includes, in one version, an infrared spectrometer subsystem configured to produce a spectrum for oil introduced to an oil sample cell. The system displays a route including assets with oil to be inspected. The type of oil used in each asset is determined. For each asset on the route, one or more oil property methods specific to the oil used in the asset are located. The spectrum of each asset's oil is analyzed using specific methods in order to produce oil properties.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 26, 2013
Publication date:
June 5, 2014
Applicant:
Spectro, Inc.
Inventors:
Yuegang Zhao, Raymond E. Garvey, III, Robert David Corak, Eric J. Olson, Matthew B. Fratkin, Patrick Henning
Abstract: A viscometer assembly includes a first plate with a rail configured to constrain fluid thereon between its edges by surface tension. A second opposing plate has a surface spaced from the rail by a predefined gap of constraining fluid to the rail by surface tension when the rail is inclined and gravity pulls the fluid along the rail. The kinematic viscosity of the fluid is determined as a function of the predetermined gap and the time it takes the fluid to flow along the rail.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 13, 2014
Publication date:
May 8, 2014
Applicant:
Spectro, Inc.
Inventors:
Patrick F. Henning, Thomas G. Barraclough, Brian A. Tweed, Eric J. Olson
Abstract: A viscometer assembly includes a first plate with a rail configured to constrain fluid thereon between its edges by surface tension. A second opposing plate has a surface spaced from the rail by a predefined gap of constraining fluid to the rail by surface tension when the rail is inclined and gravity pulls the fluid along the rail. The kinematic viscosity of the fluid is determined as a function of the predetermined gap and the time it takes the fluid to flow along the rail.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 18, 2011
Date of Patent:
March 4, 2014
Assignee:
Spectro, Inc.
Inventors:
Patrick F. Henning, Thomas G. Barraclough, Brian A. Tweed, Eric J. Olson
Abstract: A spectrometer sample head including a housing, at least one source of radiation in the housing, and a flip top sample cell including first and second hinged plates and a window through the first plate with a pane in the window, the pane for receiving a sample thereon. The housing includes a channel for receiving the plates when coupled together for placing the sample in the optical path of the radiation.
Abstract: A spectrometer sample head including a housing, at least one source of radiation in the housing, and a flip top sample cell. First and second hinged plates each include a window aligned with each other when the plate are coupled together. The housing includes a channel for receiving the plates when coupled together for placing the sample in the optical path of the radiation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 20, 2009
Date of Patent:
February 26, 2013
Assignee:
Spectro, Inc.
Inventors:
Scott Albin, Thomas Barraclough, Michael Morkos, Patrick Henning, Eric John Olson, Kevin Keough
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