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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2013
Endress+hauser Conducta Inc., Anaheim, CA (US);
William H. Wynn, Hillsborough, CA (US);
Endress+Hauser Conducta Inc., Anaheim, CA (US);
Abstract
Micro volume inline optical sensor comprising a flowcell having a sample chamber which has a volume less than 0.4 mL and increases in diameter from two ends toward the middle, a flow passageway intersecting the chamber where the diameter is the greatest, monitoring ports with optically transmissive windows at the ends of the chamber, mounting rings on opposite sides of the flowcell disposed coaxially of an optical axis that passes through the monitoring ports and the sample chamber, and a light source and an optical detector mounted on the mounting rings in alignment with each other along the optical axis. In one embodiment, the sample chamber has a side wall with oppositely inclined frusto-conical sections, and the ends of the chamber are closed and sealed by the monitoring port windows and O-ring gaskets that surround the open ends and are compressed between the body of the flowcell and the windows.