Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Koko Co., Ltd.

Mitsutoshi Yotsuyanagi

Kazuyoshi Tokunaga

Eiji Nakayama

Shigeru Shinohara

Hiroshi Hayasaka

Yoshitaka Niinai

Noriyasu Matsufuji

Masataka Morita

Satoshi Numata

Kahoru Takahashi

Hisanobu Oyama

Akio Nagata

Norihisa Sagawa

Steven Humphries

David Rickwood

Peter Spragg

A centrifugal separator includes an input section for allowing a user to enter operating conditions of a centrifugal separation of a sample accommodated in a rotor driven by a motor. A memory of the centrifugal separator stores a user ID code and a corresponding user name which are registered in advance by the user. Operation of the centrifugal separator is allowed when a user ID code entered through the input section agrees with the registered user ID code.

Centrifugal separator and administration of user and actual operation of the same

A fixed-angle rotor, having a centrifuge tube inclined at a predetermined gradient angle with respect to a rotational axis, is used to obtain a sedimentation coefficient of sample particles. In one method, a distance in the centrifugal direction is corrected by the gradient angle .theta. of centrifuge tube 1. Sedimentation coefficient S.sub.20,W is calculated based on the corrected distance, and then the sedimentation coefficient S.sub.20,W is multiplied with sin(.theta.) to obtain a corrected sedimentation coefficient. In another method, a distance in the centrifugal direction is corrected by the gradient angle .theta., and also an angular acceleration .omega..sup.2 is corrected by dividing it by sin(.theta.). And then, the sedimentation coefficient S.sub.20,W is calculated based on thus corrected distance and corrected angular acceleration.

Simulation program for centrifugation using a fixed-angle rotor

In an apparatus and a method for controlling centrifugal separator, simulation is performed, in Steps S1 to S4, for the process before and after change of parameters as centrifugation condition. The results are compared in Step S10, and operation of the centrifugal separator is controlled in Step S11. To obtain the measured data of the specimen, an attachment for analysis 15 is used, and the results are compared with the results of simulation, and parameters are corrected. To display the process in the middle of centrifugation, simulation is performed using the current parameters during operation of centrifugation, and the results are shown by graphic display on a display unit 2.

Apparatus and method for controlling centrifugal separator and

A management system for use in a centrifuge equipped with a detachable rotor which is rotatable so as to separate density-different samples by a centrifugal force due to the rotation. The management system is for managing the lifetime of the rotor on the basis of the detection results of an operated-condition detector for detecting operated conditions such as the number of times of rotation, running time and rotational speed of the rotor. The management system includes a data storing device which is provided on the rotor to be rotatable therewith and is composed of a magnetic recording medium to allow keeping data relating to the operated conditions of the rotor. Also included in the management system is a data processing unit coupled through a data reading and writing device such as a magnetic head to the data keeping device and also coupled to the operated-condition detector to be responsive to the operated conditions. The data processing unit reads out previous data from the data keeping device at the time of start of operation of the centrifuge, processes the operated conditions from the detector together with the read previous data to write on the data storing device new data produced by the data processing.

System for management of body rotation of centrifuge

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Yokohama, Japan

Mitsutoshi Yotsuyanagi