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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 1977
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Theodore R Owen, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356189 ; 350166 ; 356100 ;
Abstract
In a spectrophotometer, light that has passed through, or been reflected from, a sample is carried by a fiberoptic bundle. The output end of the fiberoptic bundle is bonded to one side of a wedge-shaped linear variable interference filter. The other side of the filter is bonded to an array of photodiodes. Because each photodiode receives light that has passed through a different portion of the filter, each photodiode will respond to light of a different wavelength.