Jasco Corporation

Hiroaki Yamura

Takeshi Kanomata

Shinichi Kikuchi

Takahiro Kadota

Shigenori Hashimoto

Shin-ichi Kikuchi

A pressure gauge mounted to a pump or a back pressure regulator in an HPLC, SFC, or SFE system provides improved solvent exchange and improved measurement precision. A through hole having an inside diameter of 1.0 mm is made in a hexagonal member similar in shape to a pipe joint. A part of the hexagonal member is cut away to form a flat surface such that the distance to the outside periphery of the through hole is 0.5 mm to serve as a strain-measurement strain gauge attaching surface. One strain gauge is attached to the center of the strain-measurement strain gauge attaching surface, and two strain gauges are attached for temperature correction, one on the same surface as the strain-measurement strain gauge attaching surface and the other on an outside surface of the hexagonal member.

Very-small-capacity pressure gauge

A spectrometer slit switching mechanism includes a slit plate having a plurality of entrance slits and exit slits formed at prescribed positions, parallel support rods for supporting the slit plate so as to be movable along the support rods, a screw portion formed on at least one support rod for transmitting forced to the slit plate, and a driving motor for transmitting rotational energy to the support rod provided with the screw portion, wherein the entrance slits are arranged on a line that runs parallel to the direction of movement of the slit plate and the exit slits are arranged on a line that is both parallel to and spaced a prescribed distance from the line on which the entrance slits are arranged. In accordance with this structure, the driving motor is operated in the clockwise and counterclockwise directions to raise and lower the slit plate in order to align a desired entrance slit and exit slit with the light path of the spectrometer. Also, after the desired slits have been positioned and the driving motor is stopped, the slit plate is prevented from moving downwards by the engagement of the slit plate with the screw portion of the support rod, and this eliminates the need for an excitation current to be supplied to the driving motor.

Spectrometer slit switching mechanism

A lamp unit is provided with a projecting portion on the inner wall of the lamphouse in the vicinity of the arc portion. The lamphouse is ventilated by the van provided at one end of the lamphouse and the vent provided at the other end. The inner diameter of the lamphouse at the arc portion provided with the projecting portion is smaller than that of both end portions, so that the flow velocity of the air passing through the lamphouse is higher in the vicinity of the arc portion, which produces a heat of a high temperature. Even if the lamp is horizontally installed, which lowers the heat dissipation efficiency, since the lamp is adequately air-cooled, an extreme temperature rise is prevented. The lamphouse is removeably mounted, and the lamp is mounted in a cartridge. The cartridge may be inserted into the lamphouse for replacement of the lamp.

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Hachioji, Japan

Hiroaki Yamura