This dilatometer is a very unique instrument, which was developed for cro is supplied with automatic evaluation, to ensure that ready measu- customers in the ceramics automotive industry. ring data are available without time delay. These customers have to make a lot of quality control measurements We are proud to say that as far as we know LINSEIS is the only supplier in order to ensure ISO9000 standards. Especially companies manufac- worldwide, that can offer this highly specialized dilatometer. This is ano- turing catalytic converter base ceramics for car exhaust systems are ther example of our powerful line of thermal Analysis instruments. very interested. The Quattro Dilatometer is built up with four seperate dilatometer measuring sensors, which can measure simultaneously either four seperate samples at one time, or three seperate samples against a NIST reference. That means, the productivity of the Quattro Dilatometer is three times as high, if compared to the normally used dual push rod dilatometers. With a dual push rod dilatometer only one sample can be measured against the standard at each time. In order to further increase the productivity, this dilatometer is built with two seperate furnaces. Whenever the first run od four samples is ready, a new, cool furnace is ready to immediatly start the next run. There is another feature included in this Quattro Dilatometer, which is called an automatic furnace lift mechanism. This feature automatically lifts the furnace at the end of each measurement without any operator interaction. This way the measuring system is already cool when the operator comes to change the samples. This again increases the productivity of the system. The 32 bit software further developed to be able to programm the parameters for four samples on one screen. For each sample different sample length, file name, etc. can be stored, and are available for later evaluation. The temperature programming is done through an expensive program part, for several stages, dwell times, heat up speeds etc. A software ma- LINSEIS GmbH • Vielitzerstr. 43 • 95100 Selb • Germany Tel.: (+49) 9287–880 - 0 • Fax: (+49) 9287–70488 • E-mail: [email protected]