Sensor arrangement for detecting particle features
AssigneeQ.Ant GmbH
InventorHelge Hattermann
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Abstract
A sensor arrangement for detecting features of particles includes an emitter for emitting electromagnetic radiation, a detector for receiving the radiation emitted from the emitter and for providing detector signals as a function of the received radiation, a measurement chamber configured to be irradiated by the radiation emitted by the emitter and to receive particles flowing therethrough, an evaluation unit for evaluating the detector signals, and a locating unit for locating the measurement chamber with respect to a reference point of a coordinate system, so that a respective position of a respective particle within the radiation is determinable.
Claims11
A sensor arrangement for detecting features of particles, the sensor arrangement comprising:
- an emitter for emitting electromagnetic radiation;
- a detector for receiving the radiation emitted from the emitter and for providing detector signals as a function of the received radiation;
- a measurement chamber configured to be irradiated by the radiation emitted by the emitter, and to receive particles flowing therethrough;
- an evaluation unit for evaluating the detector signals;
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- a locating unit for locating the measurement chamber with respect to a reference point of a coordinate system, so that a respective position of a respective particle within the radiation is determinable,
- wherein the locating unit includes a positioning section, in which the measurement chamber is displaceable along a positioning axis in the coordinate system, and
- wherein the positioning section includes different discrete positioning spaces, in which the measurement chambers are arrangeable within the positioning section.
A sensor arrangement for detecting features of particles, the sensor arrangement comprising:
- an emitter for emitting electromagnetic radiation;
- a detector for receiving the radiation emitted from the emitter and for providing detector signals as a function of the received radiation;
- a measurement chamber configured to be irradiated by the radiation emitted by the emitter, and to receive particles flowing therethrough;
- an evaluation unit for evaluating the detector signals;
- a locating unit for locating the measurement chamber with respect to a reference point of a coordinate system, so that a respective position of a respective particle within the radiation is determinable, wherein the locating unit includes a positioning section, in which the measurement chamber is displaceable along a positioning axis in the coordinate system;
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- an adjustment unit, so that the measurement chamber is continuously positionable along the positioning section, wherein the adjustment unit comprises a set screw of an encoder unit, wherein the set screw displaces the measurement chamber along the positioning axis and converts a position of the measurement chamber using the encoder unit into a digital signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.