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Monitoring sheet material

US4718026A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 25, 1984
Grant dateJan 5, 1988
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Expiry dateMay 25, 2004

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N21/86
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Inorganic constituents of cigarette paper are identified and monitored by scanning a region of the infra red spectrum of the paper, computing first and second order derivatives of the scan, comparing the first and second order derivatives by a best fit comparison with reference spectral data, and computing concentrations in the paper of the identified inorganic constituents.

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