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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 1989
Filed:
May. 20, 1988
Konosuke Oishi, Mito, JP;
Masamichi Tsukada, Ibaraki, JP;
Masatoshi Kitagawa, Mito, JP;
Toyoharu Okumoto, Katsuta, JP;
Hayato Tobe, Mito, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An atomic absorption spectrophotometer for simultaneously measuring a plurality of elements different in kind from each other. A cylindrical heating furnace is provided for heating a sample being analyzed to dry, ash and atomize the sample thereby producing atomic vapor. A plurality of hollow-cathode discharge tubes corresponding in number to the elements being detected are arranged for simultaneously emitting light beams respectively containing line spectra of the respective elements, to cause the light beams to be incident upon the heating furnace at respective angles of inclination with respect to a central axis of the heating furnace. A plurality of spectral detection systems are arranged behind the heating furnace in relation to the angles of inclination, for respectively spectral-diffracting and receiving the light beams having their respective line spectra absorbed by the atomic vapor. A signal processing device is provided for carrying out calculation to obtain concentrations or quantities of the respective elements in the sample being analyzed, on the basis of respective ratios of atomic resonance absorption of the respective line spectra spectral-detected.