Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Particle size measuring method and device
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Application No.: US15561269Application Date: 2016-03-30
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Publication No.: US10234370B2Publication Date: 2019-03-19
- Inventor: Haruhisa Kato , Naoko Oouchi , Ayako Nakamura
- Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
- Current Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Studebaker & Brackett PC
- Priority: JP2015-069016 20150330
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/060479 WO 20160330
- International Announcement: WO2016/159131 WO 20161006
- Main IPC: G01N15/02
- IPC: G01N15/02 ; G01N15/10 ; G01N15/14

Abstract:
To provide a particle size measuring device that enables simple in-line measurement of the particle size even in a case of nano-sized particles during dispersion. Provided is a particle size measuring device which measures the particle size of particles that perform Brownian motion in a dispersion medium. The particle size measuring device includes a transparent column which accommodates a dispersion medium therein; a laser light irradiating unit which irradiates the dispersion medium in the column with laser light; an imaging unit which includes a camera that images the dispersion medium in the column; an image analyzing unit which acquires a displacement of corresponding particles from at least a plurality of images captured at a predetermined time interval Δt; and a calculating unit which calculates the particle size based on the fact that a root mean square value of the displacement is proportional to kBT/3πηd where kB represents a Boltzmann constant, T represents an absolute temperature, η represents a viscosity coefficient of the dispersion medium, and d represents the particle size.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180120214A1 PARTICLE SIZE MEASURING METHOD AND DEVICE Public/Granted day:2018-05-03
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