Horiba, Ltd.

Hiroyuki Amimoto

Hiroji Kohsaka

Kozo Ishida

Osamu Saitoh

Naoki Noguchi

Junji Okayama

An apparatus for measuring and analyzing the concentration or weight of particulates in the exhaust gas from a diesel engine. The apparatus includes a carbon particle detector which continuously measures dry soot concentration and high and low temperature HC detectors which respectively continuously measure the concentrations of gaseous hydrocarbon compounds (1) in a high-temperature undiluted state immediately upon leaving the diesel engine and (2) in a low-temperature diluted and cooled state after dilution with room air. Standard gas detectors are provided for both the high-temperature undiluted exhaust gas and the diluted and cooled exhaust gas in order to continuously determine the amount of dilution of the diluted exhaust gas. Outputs from the detectors are input to a computer to provide continuous determination of the total concentration or weight of particulates which are composed of soot particles and soluble organic fractions, as well as separate determinations of these components.

Apparatus for analyzing particulates

An apparatus for indirectly measuring or controlling the separation ratio of a gas to be measured or controlled when passing through a branch passage. A diluent gas with a known and adjustable flow rate is supplied to each of the branched passages through which the gas to be measured flows. The difference in the concentration of a specified gas in each of the branched passages is then measured. If the difference is equal to zero, then the separation ratio of the diluent gas is equal to the separation ratio of the gas to be measured. Alternatively, the separation ratio of the diluent gas may be set to a predetermined desired value and the flow of the gas to be measured controlled until the detected difference in concentration is equal to zero, at which point the separation ratio of the gas to be measured is equal to the separation ratio of the diluent gas.

Apparatus for measuring or controlling the separation ratio of gas

A combined motor and rotational cell for use in an apparatus for measuring components in a gas colorimeter, smoke meter, etc. by utilizing light absorption or fluorescence. The combined motor and rotational cell has a motor with a plurality of magnetic poles around the periphery of thereof, at least one diametrically extending partition wall extending across the hollow interior for defining at least two compartments in the rotor, and optically transparent windows on the outside of the motor closing the compartments. A plate-shaped chopper is provided on one side of the rotor having a plurality of apertures therein equidistantly spaced around the chopper. A casing surrounds the rotor and supports the rotor shaft in bearings and has a plurality of coils around the inside of the peripheral wall opposed to the magnetic poles on the rotor. Apertures are provided in the opposite end walls of the casing aligned with the compartments in the rotor for passing light through the casing and the rotor.

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Kyoto, Japan

Hiroyuki Amimoto