256 results about "Visible light radiation" patented technology

A photodetector having sensitivity in a wide temperature range in both an infrared and an ultraviolet band is provided. The photodetector is formed on a single chip and is designed to be blind to solar or visible radiation. Structures disclosed allow fast and efficient detection of signals with high spatial and temporal resolution. Such sensors may be used for multi-pixel focal arrays and applied for fire detection applications, various space- and military-related applications and other applications. A method for increasing rejection of visible light by the IR sensitive material is also provided.

The invention provides a class of actinically-crosslinkable silicone-containing prepolymers which comprise (1) ethylenically-unsaturated groups and (2) UV-absorbing polymeric units, latent UV-absorbing polymeric units, and / or dual photo-functional polymeric units. The prepolymer of the invention can be used to prepare silicone hydrogel contact lenses capable of absorbing UV / visible radiation. The present invention is also related to silicone hydrogel contact lenses made from a prepolymer of the invention and methods for making the contact lenses in a cost-effective way and with high consistency and high fidelity to the original lens design.

Disclosed are environmentally friendly, substantially all solids coating compositions which are curable using ultraviolet and visible radiation. In addition, the disclosed coating compositions are suitable for coating composite objects and / or objects comprising composite materials, such as, but not limited to, fiberglass, fire retardant fiberglass, carbon fiber, fire retardant carbon fiber, Kevlar®, and fire retardant Kevlar®. In addition, methods are disclosed for coating surfaces, or at least a portion of the surfaces, and curing of the coated surface to obtain partially or fully cured coated surfaces. Furthermore, articles of manufacture incorporating fully cured coated surfaces are disclosed, including, for example composite architectural panels. Also disclosed are methods, processes, production lines, articles of manufacture, and factories which incorporate these environmentally friendly, substantially all solids coating compositions curable using ultraviolet and visible radiation.

Photo-thermo-refractive (PTR) glass is a multi-component silicate glass having photosensitivity in rear UV region. A novel process is disclosed for PTR glass sensitization to visible region by means of two-step illumination followed by thermal development. This disclosed process utilizes a first illumination at approximately 325 nm followed by a second illumination with radiation in the visible spectral region out of the region of original photosensitivity of the PTR glass which enables fabrication of complex holographic optical elements for visible region such as plane elements, lenses, curved mirrors, combinations of complex elements and optical correlators. The same process provides a positive increment of refractive index in the bulk of the PTR glass and, therefore, can be used for refractive optical elements recording, such as lenses and waveguides.

A liquid compound or a compound solution is kept in contact with the surface of a solid material, such as a synthetic resin, glass, metal, or ceramic, radiation selected from ultraviolet radiation, visible radiation, and infrared radiation is irradiated on the interface between the surface of the solid material and the liquid compound or compound solution to optically excite the surface of the solid material and the liquid compound or compound solution, thereby effecting substitution with a chemical species in the liquid compound or compound solution, depositing the chemical species, or performing etching with the chemical species. Preferably, a transparent window is kept in tight contact with the surface of a solid material to be treated, a thin layer of a liquid compound or of a compound solution is interposed between the surface of the solid material and the transparent window by using capillarity, and ultraviolet radiation, visible radiation, or infrared radiation is irradiated through the transparent window. With this treatment, the irradiated portion can be imparted with hydrophilicity, adhesion properties printing properties, a corrosion resistance, and conductivity.

Disclosed are environmentally friendly, substantially all solids coating compositions which are curable using ultraviolet and visible radiation. In addition, the disclosed coating compositions are suitable for coating wooden objects, such as, but not limited to, wooden products, which may have angular features. In addition, methods are disclosed for coating surfaces, or at least a portion of the surfaces, and curing of the coated surface to obtain partially or fully cured coated surfaces are also disclosed. Furthermore, articles of manufacture incorporating fully cured coated surfaces are disclosed, including, for example moldings. Also disclosed are methods, processes, production lines, articles of manufacture, and factories which incorporate these environmentally friendly, substantially all solids coating compositions curable using ultraviolet and visible radiation.

The invention is directed to a catalyst having activity under the irradiation of a visible light, the catalyst being an oxide semiconductor such as an anatase type titanium dioxide, having stable oxygen defects. A method for producing a catalyst having activity under the irradiation of a visible light which comprises treating an oxide semiconductor with hydrogen plasma or with a plasma of a rare gas element, comprising performing the treatment in a state substantially free from the intrusion of air into the treatment system is also provided. An article comprising a base material having the catalyst above provided on the surface thereof and a method for decomposing a substance, comprising bringing an object to be decomposed into contact with the catalyst above under the irradiation of a light containing at least a visible radiation are disclosed. A novel photocatalyst which enables use of a visible radiation is provided, as well as a method utilizing the photocatalyst for removing various substances containing an organic matter or bacteria by photodecomposition.

A lighting assembly for an interior rearview mirror assembly of a vehicle includes an illumination source, a reflective element and a lens. The illumination source is operable to radiate radiation including visible radiation and infrared radiation. The radiation from the illumination source impinges on the reflective element. The reflective element reflects reflected radiation toward the lens. The reflective element is adapted to at least partially transmit the infrared radiation so that reduced reflection of the infrared radiation occurs toward the lens. The lens may include an optical element which functions to substantially transmit the visible radiation through the optical element and the lens while at least partially reflecting the infrared radiation generally away from the lens.

A 2-wavelength image sensor has a plurality of uniformly dispersedly arranged visible radiation detectors and a plurality of uniformly dispersedly arranged, uncooled infrared radiation detectors, and a single visible radiation detector configures a visible radiation detecting pixel and four series connected infrared radiation detectors configure a thermal infrared radiation detecting pixel. Consequently a visible image can be four times a thermal image in resolution. Furthermore for an infrared image an area increased four times per pixel to receive light can be achieved. As a result the infrared image can be enhanced in temperature resolution.

Disclosed are environmentally friendly, substantially all solids coating compositions which are curable using ultraviolet and visible radiation. In certain embodiments, the disclosed coating compositions are suitable for coating flexible objects and / or objects having angular features, such as, but not limited to, flexible metal objects with angular features. In other embodiments, the cured coatings have improved slip properties and at least 6 H hardness. Such embodiments can served as substitutes for “hard chrome” coatings, TEFLON® coatings, coatings comprising TEFLON®, or TEFLON® like coatings. In addition, methods are disclosed for coating surfaces, or at least a portion of the surfaces, and curing of the coated surface to obtain partially or fully cured coated surfaces. Furthermore, articles of manufacture incorporating fully cured coated surfaces are disclosed, including, for example leaf springs, hydraulic rods and cylinders. Also disclosed are methods, processes, production lines, articles of manufacture, and factories which incorporate these environmentally friendly, substantially all solids coating compositions curable using ultraviolet and visible radiation.

The invention relates to the field of engineering physics in particular to the technique for detecting X-radiation, and it may be used for photometry, dosimetry as well as for measuring of space energy characteristics of optical-and-ionizing radiation fields with the aim of body X-ray scanning, human body in particular, to identify thereon or therein some highly undesirable objects or substances both for medical and security applications i.e. to prevent thefts and acts of terrorism and to provide the security of residential and other buildings that is in airports, banks and other high-risk areas. The X-ray screening of the body is realized by means of scanning it with a pre-shaped collimated bunch of X-radiation of low intensity due to moving the body and a source of X-radiation provided relative to one another, reception of X-radiation transmitted by the body, shaping and analysis of the image in its electronic form. It is the aim of the present invention to design a method and an apparatus which alongside with being safe and efficient make it possible to provide full body scanning with high precision. The aim set forth has been achieved by shaping the bunch of X-radiation as a single flat beam while X-radiation received at each scanning instant and converted into visible light radiation is in its turn converted into digital electronic signals. The radiation detectors filed are featuring a decreased noise level alongside with increased sensitivity and precision for registration of the intensity of X-radiation and also an extended dynamic range of X-radiation intensity values being registered which makes it possible to provide implementation of the method and the apparatus filed in the most advantageous way.

Disclosed are environmentally friendly, substantially all solids coating compositions which are curable using ultraviolet and visible radiation. In addition, the disclosed coating compositions are suitable for coating thermally sensitive objects and / or rusted surfaces. In addition, methods are disclosed for coating surfaces, or at least a portion of the surfaces, and curing of the coated surface to obtain partially or fully cured coated surfaces are also disclosed. Furthermore, articles of manufacture incorporating fully cured coated surfaces are disclosed, including, for example gas tanks such as, barbeque propane tanks. Also disclosed are methods, processes, production lines, articles of manufacture, and factories which incorporate these environmentally friendly, substantially all solids coating compositions curable using ultraviolet and visible radiation.

The invention concerns a device for purifying a gas effluent containing contaminants, comprising: a reactor including at least an inlet for the gas to be purified and at least an outlet for the purified gas ; at least an ultraviolet or visible radiation source; and at least a support element arranged inside the reactor and coated with a catalyst forming an exposed catalytic surface capable of oxidising at least partly the contaminants under the action of the ultraviolet or visible radiation. The reactor comprises at least two obstructing means, each of said obstructing means obstructing partly the flow of the gas effluent from said inlet up to said outlet and generating a turbulent gas zone on its downstream side, and a catalytic surface is arranged in each turbulent gas zone so that the turbulent gas flow is incident on said catalytic surface. The invention is applicable to disinfection and pollution management of air and industrial gases.

Disclosed are environmentally friendly, substantially all solids coating compositions, which are curable using ultraviolet and visible radiation. In addition, the disclosed coating compositions are suitable for coating flexible objects and / or objects having angular features, such as, but not limited to, flexible metal objects with angular features. In addition, methods are disclosed for coating surfaces, or at least portions of the surfaces, and curing of the coated surface to obtain partially or fully cured coated surfaces (figure 1). Furthermore, articles of manufacture incorporating fully cured coated surfaces are disclosed, including, for example leaf springs. Also disclosed are methods, processes, production lines, articles of manufacture, and factories which incorporate these environmentally friendly, substantially all solids coating compositions curable using ultraviolet and visible radiation.

A photodetector having sensitivity in a wide temperature range in both an infrared and an ultraviolet band is provided. The photodetector is formed on a single chip and is designed to be blind to solar or visible radiation. Structures disclosed allow fast and efficient detection of signals with high spatial and temporal resolution. Such sensors may be used for multi-pixel focal arrays and applied for fire detection applications, various space- and military-related applications and other applications. A method for increasing rejection of visible light by the IR sensitive material is also provided.

Light is introduced into the body through an endoscope illumination system, which is capable of passing both UV and visible radiation through an illumination pathway. An image can then be viewed in real time, by eye or with an electronic imaging camera and displayed on a video monitor used by the surgeon. Dyes which are activated by the UV radiation generate images that can be viewed by the endoscope in the visible spectrum and recorded by eye, electronic camera or other recording devices that can process visual images.

The coating described herein attempts to provide this solution by synthesizing alkoxysilane-terminated N-substituted urea resins, then formulating them into moisture-curable single-component (1K) topside coatings. These coatings will provide greater external stability (to UV and visible radiation), cleanability, flexibility, cure times and lower VOC content than the currently qualified silicone alkyd topside coatings that are found on Navy ships. The single-component coating can include at least an alkoxysilane-terminated N-substituted urea resin, a reactive diluent, a pigment, a filler, and a catalyst. The resin can include an amino-functional silane substituted at the N-position and a non-aromatic isocyanate.

An apparatus and method are provided for detecting presence in gas of transient particulate above its normal zero or acceptable level within a duct (4), said apparatus comprising at least one emitter (2) of illumination selected from infra-red, ultraviolet and visible radiation capable of being projected over essentially the entire cross section of the duct (4) and at least one detector (8, 18, 25) for detecting any sparkle of the illumination from the particulate. The apparatus and method are in particular useful for detecting monitoring particulate in areas where build up or presence of particulate can be disadvantageous, for example hospitals and electricity generating stations.

The invention relates to an anti-bacterial fabric and a prepration method thereof, the anti-bacterial fabric consists of a fabric substrate and a composite thin film composed on the surface of the fabric substrate, and the structure of the composite thin film is TiO2 / rare earth, rare earth / TiO2, TiO2 / rare earth / TiO2 or rare earth / TiO2 / rare earth, wherein, the rare earth is Nd, La or Ce. The composite thin film is formed by directly sputtering an anti-bacterial target to the surface of the fabric substrate by adopting the magnetron sputtering method, thereby forming the anti-bacterial fabric; and the preparation process comprises the following steps: step 1, cleaning and drying; 2, plasma pretreatment; 3, sputtering: arranging the fabric substrate after the pretreatment on a sample holder in a sputtering cavity, keeping the spacing interval between the target and the fabric substrate to be 10-200mm, adopting a water cooling device for cooling the fabric substrate, firstly pumping a reaction chamber till base vacuum, and then introducing Ar gas for being taken as sputtering gas for sputtering and forming the film. The method can broaden the absorption spectrum of nano-TiO2, thereby having better anti-bacterial effect under the visible light radiation situation.

The invention relates to a laboratory testing method for atmospheric transmissivity of multi-band light radiation. The laboratory testing method comprises the following steps that radiation light is generated by a radiation light source device, and converted into parallel sine radiation light; the sine radiation light radiates into the front of a simulated atmosphere column transmission attenuation device and radiates out from the back of the simulated atmosphere column transmission attenuation device; the simulated atmosphere column transmission attenuation device comprises a seal pot filled with at least one kind of compressed gas to be tested; optical windows are arranged at the front and the back of the seal pot; the compressed gas to be tested is a certain gas in the atmosphere, which is compressed into the seal pot, has the same sectional area as that of the seal pot, and is within a certain length range; and data collection and analytical processing are conducted on the sine radiation light attenuated by the simulated atmosphere column transmission attenuation device. Under a laboratory environment, the laboratory testing method for the atmospheric transmissivity of the multi-band light radiation can simulate the testing of attenuation coefficients of ultraviolet light radiation, visible light radiation and infrared light radiation in the atmospheric transmission through a compressed air column, and is simple and convenient.

A refrigerator is disclosed. The refrigerator includes a main body which has a cooling chamber and a freezing chamber, a storage chamber which is provided in the cooling chamber to store foodstuffs, an irradiation device which irradiates light within a visible light region correspondingly to color of the foodstuffs stored in the storage chamber, an optical deodorization module which includes an ultraviolet light irradiation device which is mounted to the storage chamber to irradiate ultraviolet light and a photocatalyst filter which receives the ultraviolet light from the ultraviolet light irradiation device and is coated with a photocatalyst agent, and a control unit which controls the irradiation device and the ultraviolet light irradiation device.

To obtain metal oxide layer having a reactiveness to electromagnetic wave whose wave length is longer than that of ultraviolet rays, for example, visible radiation or the like. A metal oxide layer is a layer of a stable metal oxide, for example. TiO2, ZnO, WO3, SnO2, ZrO2 or the like obtained by melting and adhering metal powder for forming a layer of titanium (Ti), zinc (Zn), wolfram (W), stannum (Sn) and zirconium (Zr) or the like on a surface of a product to be treated comprising of a metal, ceramics or a mixture of them by injecting the metal powder with high speed by dint of using a compressed air and has oxygen deficit tilting structure wherein bonding quantity of oxygen is decreased as goes from the surface to the inside gradually.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a compound photocatalyst for modified porous pucherite nanosheet, and belongs to the field of inorganic nano photocatalytic materials. The degradation rate of the porous pucherite nanosheet loaded with ferric oxide to rhodamine B can reach 99% in 90 minutes under the irradiation of visible light, and the degradation rate is 27 times higher than the porous pucherite nanosheet not modified by the ferric oxide. The compound photocatalyst can effectively degrade colorless organic pollutant such as phenol. Under the irradiation of visible light, the removal rate to phenol in 2 hours can reach more than 96%, and the degradation rate is 31 times higher than the porous pucherite nanosheet not modified by the ferric oxide. According to the invention, the prepared compound photocatalyst not only can perform efficient photocatalytic degradation on poisonous and harmful chemical substances under the irradiation of visible light, but also can conveniently perform precipitation separation recycle in a liquid phase reaction, the preparation method is simple, the material cost is low, and good application prospect is achieved.

A method for creating refractive index changes in a substrate is provided by irradiating the substrate with infrared (IR) or visible light radiation. Ultra-violet (UV) radiation is generated in the substrate responsive to the IR or visible light radiation such that the change in the refractive index of the substrate is generated responsive to the UV radiation. Preferably, the substrate comprises a glass doped with rare earth ions.

A product comprises a sheet, which is transparent to visible radiation, and a coding pattern, which comprises scattering dots arranged on the sheet to code information, the scattering dots being arranged to diffusely scatter radiation incident thereon, the coding pattern further comprising reflecting dots arranged on the sheet in correspondence with the scattering dots, the reflecting dots being arranged to specularly reflect radiation incident thereon.

The invention discloses a visible-radiation-based water-soluble monomer atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) method. Particularly, the method comprises the following steps: 1) preparing a catalyst / ligand complex solution; 2) carrying out ATRP in an n-heptane / ethanol mixed solvent; 3) after the polymerization finishes, adding water to induce the solution to be stratified, and carrying out treatment to obtain a polymer; and 4) adding a new monomer, an initiator and a two-component visible photoinitiator into the recovered catalyst / ligand complex to carry out the next polymerization. The ATRP reaction is carried out under the mild efficient visible radiation, thereby implementing superhigh monomer conversion rate (greater than 95%) within a wider wavelength range, and obtaining the high-controllability polymer. The method can recycle the catalyst, is simple to operate, and has the advantages of high designability, lower cost, time saving and labor saving.

The present invention provides a method for analyzing defects by using heat distribution measurement, comprising: a sample loading unit for loading a sample to check whether or not there is a defect through heat distribution characteristics; a light source for radiating visible light onto the sample; a power supply unit for generating a driving signal in order to periodically heat the sample; a detection unit for detecting reflected light from the surface of the sample; and a signal generator for synchronizing the detection unit with the driving signal of the power supply unit.