Ozone absorbance controller
AssigneeThe Perkin-Elmer Corporation
InventorCharles Carlyle Helms
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Abstract
An ozone absorbance controller for use with an ultraviolet light source, which includes a vented, trapped gas filter disposed in the optical emission path of said ultraviolet light source to absorb high energy ultraviolet rays of wavelengths below about 200 nanometers, and thereby substantially preventing the formation of ozone in the optical emission path subsequent to the filter.
Claims8
An ozone absorbance controller for use with an ultraviolet light source comprising a trapped gas filter disposed in an optical emission path of said ultraviolet light source to absorb high energy ultraviolet rays of wave lengths below about 200 nanometers, and to thereby substantially prevent the formation of ozone in said optical emission path subsequent to said filter, said trapped gas filter being vented with a single opening sufficiently large to permit pressure equalization between the gases in the filter and atmosphere yet small enough to prevent gas movement within the gas filter after pressure equalization.
An ozone absorbance controller for use with an ultraviolet lamp comprising an envelope disposed substantially around said lamp in spaced relationship with respect thereto, said lamp having a transmission window and said envelope having a second transmission window substantially in alignment therewith, each said window being made of an ultraviolet transmitting material, said space between the lamp and the envelope containing a trapped gas, and said envelope having a vent opening to ambient atmosphere for said trapped gas, said vent comprising a single opening sufficiently large to permit pressure equalization of said trapped gas and ambient atmosphere yet small enough to prevent gas movement in the region disposed between said windows after pressure equalization.
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