Doryokuro Kakunenryo Kaihatsu Jigyodan

Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd.

Koichi Onishi

Takashi Suganuma

Atsushi Utsumi

Takao Kuroiwa

Yoshifusa Ouchi

Radioactive materials can be safely analyzed by an emission spectroscopic analyzer comprising an exciting device for exciting a radioactive material to be analyzed to emit light. The exciting device is enclosed in a radiation shielding wall. A detecting device detects the emitted light. The detecting device is located outside the radiation shielding wall. A light-transmitting device is provided between the exciting device and the detecting device such that the emitted light impinging on a first end of the light-transmitting device will be received at the detecting device as light having been transmitted through the light-transmitting device and emitted from a second end of the light-transmitting device. The light-transmitting device penetrates a hole made in the radiation shielding wall which has a sealing structure to prevent radiation leakage. The light-transmitting device penetrates the hole with a curvature. A lens system is attached to the second end of the light-transmitting device to permit visual observation of the emitted light therethrough. A fine adjustment device adjusts the position of the first end of the light-transmitting device in relation to the emitted light from the material to be analyzed.

Emission spectroscopic analyzer

Improvements on a DC plasma jet generator for emission spectrochemical analysis wherein two anode blocks and one cathode block are positioned in an inverted Y shape, and each of the anode blocks has a cylinder, a piston, an an anode received by a recess in the end of the piston. Each anode can be secured in the recess at the end of the piston in the corresponding anode block by magnetic force. Each of the anode and cathode blocks is pivotable so that the associated electrode attached to each block can be fixed upright with the free end thereof directed upward. This means that the electrodes can be replaced easily as well as speedily by remote control using manipulators.

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Katsuta, Japan

Koichi Onishi