Device for the analysis of microscopic objects by laser pyrolysis and chromatography in the gaseous phase
AssigneeCompagnie Francaise des Petroles
InventorAndre F. Combaz
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Abstract
Pyrolysis analysis of a specimen is effected using a microscope; the specimen to be analysed is mounted on the platform of the microscope and the laser is mounted on the microscope such that the beam passes along the optical axis of the microscope, a total reflecting prism in the microscope being movable between a position on the microscope optical axis for observation of the specimen and a position off the optical axis to permit passage of the laser beam.
Claims5
In an apparatus for the analysis of a microscopic specimen by pyrolysis in a hermetic chamber having,
- an optical microscope having an optical axis, a total reflection prism movable between a first position on said optical axis for normal microscopic observation, and a second retracted position off said optical axis, and a platform on which a specimen will be mounted;
- a micro-laser;
- an ocular tube having an axis;
- means for mounting said ocular tube on said microscope with said axis of said ocular tube coincident with said optical axis of said microscope;
- means for mounting said micro-laser on said ocular tube so that a beam from said laser will be directed along said axes onto said specimen;
- means for connecting said chamber to a supply of gas for entrainment of pyrolysis products;
- a gas chromatograph;
- means for connecting said gas chromatograph to said chamber;
- the improvement comprising;
- means providing the hermetic chamber being disposed on said microscope platform for receiving a specimen and in which pyrolysis thereof will occur, said means providing said hermetic chamber including a slide defining the lower surface onto which said specimen is placed, means defining side walls of said chamber, sealing means between said slide and said means defining side walls and a window forming the top of said chamber;
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- means to clamp said hermetic chamber to said platform, said clamping means being arranged to allow movement of said slide relative to said platform.
In an apparatus for the analysis of a microscopic specimen by pyrolysis in a hermetic chamber having,
- an optical microscope having an optical axis, a total reflection prism movable between a first position on said optical axis for normal microscopic observation and a second retracted position off said optical axis, and a platform on which a specimen will be mounted;
- a micro-laser;
- an ocular tube having an axis;
- means for mounting said ocular tube on said microscope with said axis of said ocular tube coincident with said optical axis of said microscope;
- means for mounting said micro-laser on said ocular tube so that a beam from said laser will be directed along said axes onto said specimen;
- means for connecting the hermetic chamber to a supply of gas for entrainment of pyrolysis products;
- a gas chromatograph;
- means for connecting said gas chromatograph to said chamber;
- the improvement comprising;
- means providing the hermetic chamber being disposed on said microscope platform in which pyrolysis thereof will occur, said means providing a hermetic chamber including a window forming the top of said chamber, means defining side walls of said chamber, the surface of the specimen to be analyzed defining the lower surface of said chamber and sealing means between said means defining side walls and said specimen;
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- means to clamp said hermetic chamber to said platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.