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Spectrometer with dynamically coded components

US5557544A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Bruker Analytische Messtechnik GmbH · DE

Inventors

Arno Simon · Ettlingen, DE
Norbert Rapp · Malsch, DE
Jean-Michel Weil · Scheibenhard, FR

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 9, 1993
Grant date	Sep 17, 1996
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 9, 2013

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01J2003/2866
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In an analytic spectrometer (50) having a central computer (9), permanently installed and exchangeable components (5), such as a radiation source, a detector, a beam splitter, a filter, external measurement probes and the like, each of which exhibiting a readable data carrier (7) with encoded data of parameters characterizing the respective component (5), the data media (7) can be written to and contains changeable time dependent data concerning the history and/or the actual properties of the corresponding component (5) for example length of operation, performance deterioration parameters or calibration curves of the component (5). These data can be continuously adjusted by the central computer (9) to the current state of the component (5) so that the data medium (7) connected to the component (5) can immediately supply information concerning the current actual properties of the component (5) when installing the component (5) in another spectrometer.

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