Kendro Laboratory Products Gmbh

Heraeus Instruments Gmbh & Co. Kg

Rudiger Uhlendorf

Michael Koch

Detlev Demmig

Sebastian Reich

Heinz-Gerhard Kohn

A laboratory centrifuge has a housing which can be closed by a casing cover and having in the housing a rotor chamber which contains a motor-driven vertical-axis rotor to accept test tubes. During operation, the test tubes are warmed by friction. To cool the centrifuge, cooling air is pulled in through openings in the lower side of the housing and upward into the rotor chamber by the fan action created by the rotation of the rotor. The air is guided out of the rotor chamber through an air exit in a direction of flow tangential to the perimeter of the rotor in a manner that ensures low turbulence and, thus, low noise. In particular, a slit-like air exit opening is arranged between the casing cover and the top side of the housing. In the annular gap between the rotor and the rotor chamber, an aerodynamically shaped displacement body is provided in a position at the side of the area of the air exit opening such that it directly follows the area of the air exit opening when viewed in the direction of rotation of the rotor. The displacement body is put on a molded part for attaching to the inside surface of the casing cover of the centrifuge such that the displacement body projects from the inside surface of the casing cover into the annular gap to thereby permit the cooling air to be guided out of the centrifuge with low turbulence and low noise.

Laboratory centrifuge having a casing cover and rotor chamber adapted to

A laboratory centrifuge is known with a centrifuge housing which contains a motor and a rotor connected with the motor through a drive shaft, the motor being held in the motor housing which includes an upper end shield and a lower end shield, and with the motor having a rotor tank arranged above it which has a passage for the drive shaft on the motor side. In order to indicate, starting from here, a laboratory centrifuge which is economical to manufacture and simple to assemble, which can be cooled easily, if necessary, it is proposed that the rotor tank and the upper end shield be made as a single piece.

Laboratory centrifuge having a simplified design

A laboratory centrifuge having a housing which can be closed by a casing cover and having in the housing a rotor chamber which contains a motor-driven vertical-axis rotor to accept test tubes is disclosed. During operation, the test tubes are warmed by friction. To cool the centrifuge, cooling air is pulled in through openings in the lower side of the housing and upward into the rotor chamber by the fan action created by the rotation of the rotor. The air is guided out of the rotor chamber through an air exit in a direction of flow tangential to the perimeter of the rotor in a manner that ensures low turbulence and, thus, low noise. In particular, a slit-like air exit opening is arranged between the casing cover and the top side of the housing. In the annular gap between the rotor and the rotor chamber, an aerodynamically shaped displacement body is provided in a position at the side of the area of the air exit opening such that it directly follows the area of the air exit opening when viewed in the direction of rotation of the rotor. The displacement body is put on a molded part for attaching to the inside surface of the casing cover of the centrifuge such that the displacement body projects from the inside surface of the casing cover into the annular gap to thereby permit the cooling air to be guided out of the centrifuge with low turbulence and low noise.

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Lowenhagen, Germany

Rudiger Uhlendorf