This application claims the priority benefit of China application serial no. 202022383495.4, filed on Oct. 23, 2020. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
The disclosure relates to an optical measuring device, and particularly relates to a spectrometer.
The existing diffuse reflectance sampling spectrometer is mostly used to measure substances that are impenetrable to light. Light emitted by the light source is projected on the sample to be measured, diffusely reflected back to the spectrometer by the sample to be measured, and the spectral signal of the sample to be measured may be recorded. If a diffuse reflectance spectrometer is to be used to measure liquid that is penetrable to light, an additional fixture is usually needed to fix the sample to be measured and the reference white sample having high diffuse reflectance, such that the light emitted by the light source may penetrate the sample to be measured, then reflected by the reference white sample and return to the spectrometer, and the spectral signal of the sample to be measured may be recorded. The existing spectrometer usually does not come with a fixture for fixing the cuvette and the reference white sample, and the system integrator must make an additional fixture for fixing the cuvette and the reference white sample. In addition, when the existing reflectance spectrometer is used to measure penetrable samples, the light passing through the liquid to be measured and then reflected by the reference white sample will pass through the liquid to be measured once more, and the optical path becomes double. Therefore, the spectral efficiency after entering the spectrometer is usually very poor, resulting in a poor signal-to-noise ratio of the spectrum.
The information disclosed in this background section is only for enhancement of understanding of the background of the described technology and therefore it may contain information that does not form the prior art that is already known to a person of ordinary skill in the art. Further, the information disclosed in the background section does not mean that one or more problems to be resolved by one or more embodiments of the invention was acknowledged by a person of ordinary skill in the art.
The disclosure provides a spectrometer that may obtain better spectral quality.
Other objectives and advantages of the disclosure may be further understood from the technical features disclosed in the disclosure.
In order to achieve one or part or all of the above objects or other objects, an embodiment of the disclosure provides a spectrometer including a housing and a spectrum measurement module. The housing has an arrangement surface and an opening. The spectrum measurement module is disposed in the housing and has a measurement surface. The measurement surface is exposed from the opening of the housing, and there is a height difference between the measurement surface and the arrangement surface.
In order to achieve one or part or all of the above objects or other objects, an embodiment of the disclosure provides a spectrometer including a housing, a spectrum measurement module, and a transflective assembly. The housing has an arrangement surface and an opening. The spectrum measurement module is disposed in the housing and has a measurement surface. The measurement surface is exposed from the opening of the housing, and there is a height difference between the measurement surface and the arrangement surface. The transflective assembly is detachably assembled on the housing, and includes a holder and a cuvette. The cuvette is configured to contain the liquid to be measured, and the cuvette is fixed on the holder and attached to the measuring surface of the spectrum measuring module.
Base on the above, the embodiments of the disclosure have at least one of the following advantages or effects. In the design of the spectrometer of the disclosure, the measurement surface of the spectrum measurement module is exposed from the opening of the housing, and there is a height difference between the measurement surface and the arrangement surface. Thereby, it may be ensured that the sample to be measured can first contact the measuring surface without being affected by the housing, such that the spectrometer of the disclosure may obtain better spectral quality.
Other objectives, features and advantages of the present invention will be further understood from the further technological features disclosed by the embodiments of the present invention where there are shown and described preferred embodiments of this invention, simply by way of illustration of modes best suited to carry out the invention.
The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the disclosure, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of the disclosure. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the disclosure and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.
In the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof, and in which are shown by way of illustration specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. In this regard, directional terminology, such as “top,” “bottom,” “front,” “back,” etc., is used with reference to the orientation of the Figure(s) being described. The components of the present invention can be positioned in a number of different orientations. As such, the directional terminology is used for purposes of illustration and is in no way limiting. On the other hand, the drawings are only schematic and the sizes of components may be exaggerated for clarity. It is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and structural changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology used herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting. The use of “including,” “comprising,” or “having” and variations thereof herein is meant to encompass the items listed thereafter and equivalents thereof as well as additional items. Unless limited otherwise, the terms “connected,” “coupled,” and “mounted” and variations thereof herein are used broadly and encompass direct and indirect connections, couplings, and mountings. Similarly, the terms “facing,” “faces” and variations thereof herein are used broadly and encompass direct and indirect facing, and “adjacent to” and variations thereof herein are used broadly and encompass directly and indirectly “adjacent to”. Therefore, the description of “A” component facing “B” component herein may contain the situations that “A” component directly faces “B” component or one or more additional components are between “A” component and “B” component. Also, the description of “A” component “adjacent to” “B” component herein may contain the situations that “A” component is directly “adjacent to” “B” component or one or more additional components are between “A” component and “B” component. Accordingly, the drawings and descriptions will be regarded as illustrative in nature and not as restrictive.
In detail, the housing 110a may be of any shape, and the measuring surface S2 is embodied as a flat surface, which may respond to the sample to be measured of different exteriors (such as rough surfaced, powdered, with large curved surface or odd shapes), so as to prevent the arrangement surface S1 of the housing 110a from interfering with the measurement of the sample to be measured. Further, the measurement surface S2 of the spectrum measurement module 120 of the present embodiment is exposed from the opening 112 of the housing 110a in an upward manner. Different sizes of different samples may be placed on the measurement surface S2 so as to respectively measure a spectral signal of the sample to be measured, such that the spectrometer 100a of the present embodiment may obtain better spectral quality. Here, the sample to be measured is embodied, for example, as a light-impenetrable substance, and the spectrum measurement module 120 is, for example, a diffuse reflectance spectrum measurement module.
It must be noted here that the following embodiments follow the component numbers and part of the content of the foregoing embodiments, where the same numbers are used to represent the same or similar components, and the description of the same technical content is omitted. Please refer to the foregoing embodiments for the description of the omitted parts, which will not be repeated in the following embodiments.
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Furthermore, the reference white assembly 130 of the present embodiment is removably disposed on the measurement surface S2 of the spectrum measurement module 120. For example, when the sample to be measured is embodied as a light penetrable substance, the reference white assembly 130 may be disposed on the measurement surface S2 of the spectrum measurement module 120 as shown in
On the other hand, when the sample to be measured is embodied as a solid substance, the reference white assembly 130 may be removed from the measurement surface S2 of the spectrum measurement module 120 as shown in
In short, in the spectrometer 100b of the present embodiment, the reference white assembly 130 may be assembled on the housing 110a so as to measure the light penetrable sample to be measured, or the reference white assembly 130 may be removed from the housing 110a so as to measure the light impenetrable sample to be measured. Therefore, the spectrometer 100b of the present embodiment have a wider range of use and better ease of use.
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In the present embodiment, the housing 110c includes at least one first component (two first components 111 are shown schematically), and the transflective assembly 140 includes at least one second component (two second components 141 are shown schematically). There is a magnetic attraction between the first component 111 and the second component 141 to force the transflective assembly 140 to be attached on the housing 110c. Preferably, one of the first component 111 and the second component 141 is a permanent magnet, and the other of the first component 111 and the second component 141 is a magnetically sensitive component. Here, as shown in
Further, the housing 110c of the present embodiment has a positioning groove 114, and the transflective assembly 140 further includes a positioning component 145. The positioning component 145 is disposed in the positioning groove 114 such that the transflective assembly 140 is positioned on the housing 110c. The positioning groove 114 is configured such that the transflective assembly 140 is limited at a specific position, which may increase the consistency between a position of the measurement surface S2 of the spectrum measurement module 120 and a relative position of the liquid to be measured.
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Furthermore, when performing transflective measurement, the liquid to be measured must be filled into the cuvette 144 from the first end T1 of the cuvette 144. After that, the cuvette 144 with the liquid to be measured is placed in the holder 142, that is, the second end T2 of the cuvette 144 is inserted into the positioning component 145. Then, by using the magnetic force to fix the transflective assembly 140 to the housing 110c, the light can penetrate the liquid to be measured and then the light having the spectral information of the liquid to be measured can be reflected back to the spectrum measurement module 120.
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Further, the reference white sample holder 146 of the present embodiment further includes at least one glue groove (two glue grooves 149 are schematically shown), wherein the reference white sample 148 is fixed inside the containment groove 147 through a glue placed inside the glue groove 149. Here, the reference white sample holder 146 has a first surface B1, and the reference white sample 148 has a second surface B2. The second surface B2 protrudes by a height H′ relative to the first surface B1. Preferably, the height H′ is between 0.05 mm and 1 mm. Since the second surface B2 of the reference white sample 148 is higher than the first surface B1 of the reference white sample holder 146, the cuvette 144 containing the liquid to be measured can first directly contact the reference white sample 148, such that the spectrometer 100c of the present embodiment have obtain better spectral quality.
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In short, the transflective assembly 140 of the present embodiment integrates the reference white sample 148 and the cuvette 144 into an independent module, which may be directly magnetically attracted to the diffuse reflectance spectrum measurement module 120 such that the transflective measurement may be performed when measuring the liquid to be measured. On the other hand, when not measuring the liquid to be measured, the independent module may also be integrated with the diffuse reflectance spectrum measurement module 120 to form a transflective integrated device, and the transflective assembly 140 may be a protection cover of the diffuse reflectance spectrum measurement module 120, which, in additional to being convenient to carry, may also protect the diffuse reflectance spectrum measurement module 120 so as to prevent the measurement surface S2 from being contaminated. Moreover, since the spectrometer 100c of the present embodiment has the reference white sample 148, it means that the transflective assembly 140 includes the reference white sample 148, wherein the reference white sample 148 can be used in both reflectance measurement and transflective measurement.
When the reference white sample 148 is not used, the transflective assembly 140 may be removed from the housing 110c. At this time, the reference white sample 148 is stored in the holder 142 of the transflective assembly 140, such that it may not be easily lost or contaminated. In other words, when transflective measurement is not needed, the transflective assembly 140 may be separated from the diffuse reflectance spectrum measurement module 120, which may not affect the placement of the sample to be measured during the diffuse reflectance measurement.
In summary, the embodiments of the disclosure have at least one of the following advantages or effects. In the design of the spectrometer of the disclosure, the measurement surface of the spectrum measurement module is exposed from the opening of the housing, and there is a height difference between the measurement surface and the arrangement surface. Thereby, it may be ensured that the sample to be measured may first contact the measuring surface without being affected by the housing. Furthermore, the spectrometer of the disclosure may include a reference white assembly or a reference white sample, which may be directly placed or magnetically attached to the diffuse reflectance spectrum measurement module so as to perform a transflective measurement when measuring the liquid to be measured. On the other hand, when not measuring the liquid to be measured, it may also be integrated with the diffuse reflectance spectrum measurement module to form a transflective integrated device, such that the transflective assembly may be a protection cover of the diffuse reflectance spectrum measurement module, which, in additional to being convenient to carry, may also protect the diffuse reflectance spectrum measurement module so as to prevent the measurement surface from contaminated.
The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form or to exemplary embodiments disclosed. Accordingly, the foregoing description should be regarded as illustrative rather than restrictive. Obviously, many modifications and variations will be apparent to practitioners skilled in this art. The embodiments are chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and its best mode practical application, thereby to enable persons skilled in the art to understand the invention for various embodiments and with various modifications as are suited to the particular use or implementation contemplated. It is intended that the scope of the invention be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents in which all terms are meant in their broadest reasonable sense unless otherwise indicated. Therefore, the term “the invention”, “the present invention” or the like does not necessarily limit the claim scope to a specific embodiment, and the reference to particularly preferred exemplary embodiments of the invention does not imply a limitation on the invention, and no such limitation is to be inferred. The invention is limited only by the spirit and scope of the appended claims. Moreover, these claims may refer to use “first”, “second”, etc. following with noun or element. Such terms should be understood as a nomenclature and should not be construed as giving the limitation on the number of the elements modified by such nomenclature unless specific number has been given. The abstract of the disclosure is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract, which will allow a searcher to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure of any patent issued from this disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. Any advantages and benefits described may not apply to all embodiments of the invention. It should be appreciated that variations may be made in the embodiments described by persons skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present invention as defined by the following claims. Moreover, no element and component in the present disclosure is intended to be dedicated to the public regardless of whether the element or component is explicitly recited in the following claims.
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202022383495.4 | Oct 2020 | CN | national |