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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1999
Filed:
May. 09, 1997
Hidehiko Kuroda, Yokohama, JP;
Naruhiko Mukai, Yokohama, JP;
Teturo Aikawa, Yokohama, JP;
Kunihiko Yokoyama, Yokohama, JP;
Masahiko Kuroki, Kawasaki, JP;
Takashi Kokubo, Kawasaki, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An oil detecting system for detecting a leakage oil by optical fluorescence measurement means even in the presence of external fluorescent light, for example, from parts and equipments of a vehicle and a plant comprises an irradiation apparatus for irradiating a light including an absorption wavelength of an oil to be detected and exciting molecules of the oil to make the oil fluoresce, a wavelength selection apparatus operatively connected to the irradiation apparatus and adapted to select a fluorescence wavelength of the leakage oil fluoresced by the irradiation apparatus, and an observation apparatus for detecting the fluorescence of the leakage oil and selecting only a period of observing fluorescing of the leakage oil over substantially the same time period that the leakage oil fluoresces light. A processing apparatus may be further provided so as to be operatively connected to the observation apparatus and adapted to process an image or a signal from the observation apparatus.