Abstract:
A particle detecting device includes: a light source that illuminates, with an excitation beam, a fluid that contains a plurality of particles; a fluorescence measuring instrument that measures, at at least two different wavelengths, fluorescence that is produced in a region that is illuminated by the excitation beam; a scattered light measuring instrument that measures scattered light that is produced in a region that is illuminated by the excitation beam; an interference status evaluating portion that evaluates whether the scattered light that is measured is producing constructive interference or producing destructive interference; and a particle counting portion that counts a plurality of particles depending on the measured interference of the measured light, and counts fluorescent particles that are subject to detection, from among the plurality of particles, based on a wavelength of fluorescent measured.
Abstract:
An optical particle detecting device includes a light source that emits light, an optical fiber that carries the emitted light, an emission-side condensing lens that condenses the light emitted from an end portion of the optical fiber, and a jet mechanism that causes an airstream including a particle to cut across the beam condensed by the emission-side condensing lens.
Abstract:
A particle detecting device includes: a light source that illuminates a fluid with an excitation beam, a fluorescent intensity measuring instrument that measures an optical intensity of a fluorescent band, generated in a region illuminated by the beam, at two or more wavelengths; a reference value storing device that stores a value, as a reference value for a particle, based on an intensity of light emitted from a specific particle illuminated by the beam, measured at the two or more wavelengths; a correcting portion that corrects the reference value or a measured value for the intensity of light in accordance with the status of the light source and/or a fluorescent intensity measuring instrument; and an evaluating portion that compares the measured and reference values, of which at least one has been corrected, and evaluates whether the fluid includes the fluorescent particle that is a subject for detection.
Abstract:
A particle detecting device includes: a light source that illuminates a fluid with an excitation beam; a fluorescent intensity measuring instrument that measures an optical intensity of a fluorescent band, generated in a region that is illuminated by the excitation beam, at two or more wavelengths; an evaluating portion that compares a measured value for the optical intensity and a boundary range, which is a range of optical intensities at two or more wavelengths for discriminating between a fluorescent particle that is a subject to be detected and a particle that is not a subject to be detected, and evaluates whether or not a fluid includes a fluorescent particle that is a subject to be detected; and a correcting portion that corrects the boundary range in accordance with the status of at least one of the light source and the fluorescent intensity measuring instrument.
Abstract:
A particle detecting device includes: a light source that illuminates, with an excitation beam, a fluid that contains a plurality of particles; a fluorescence measuring instrument that measures fluorescence that is produced in a region that is illuminated by the excitation beam; a scattered light measuring instrument that measures scattered light that is produced in a region that is illuminated by the excitation beam; an interference status evaluating portion that evaluates whether the scattered light that is measured is producing constructive interference or producing destructive interference; and a particle counting portion that counts a plurality of particles depending on the measured interference of the measured light.
Abstract:
A particle detecting device includes: a fluorescence measuring instrument that measures light in a fluorescent band, which is produced in a region that is illuminated by an excitation beam from a light source; and an evaluating portion that evaluates whether the light measured by the fluorescence measuring instrument includes Raman-scattered light and florescent light, to evaluate that a fluorescent particle is included in the fluid if the evaluation is that the measured light includes florescent light, and to evaluate that the fluid does not include a fluorescent particle if the evaluation is that the measured light does not include fluorescent light, to evaluate that moisture is included in the fluid if there is an evaluation that the measured light includes Raman scattered light, and to evaluate that the fluid does not include moisture if there is an evaluation that the measured light does not include Raman scattered light.
Abstract:
An optical particle detecting device including a light source that emits an inspection light, a converting unit that converts the inspection light into collimated light, a focusing reflecting mirror that reflects toward a focal point the inspection light that has been converted into collimated light, a jet mechanism that causes an airstream including a particle to jet into the focal point of the focusing reflecting mirror, and a detecting portion that detects either scattered light or fluorescence produced by the particle included in the airstream being illuminated by the inspection light.