Particle measuring device and particle measuring method

• Main Authors: Tabuchi, Takuya, Bando, Kazuna, Kato, Haruhisa, Matsuura, Yusuke, Kondo, Kaoru
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.11.2020
• Subjects: INDICATING PRESENCE, ABSENCE, OR DIRECTION, OF MOVEMENT; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION,OR SHOCK; PHYSICS; TESTING

Provided is a particle measuring device and a particle measuring method for measuring a particle size with favorable accuracy. A flow cell (1) includes a flow passage (1a) of sample fluid. An irradiation optical system (3) irradiates, with light from a light source (2), the sample fluid in the flow passage (1a). An imaging unit (4) captures, from an extension direction of the flow passage (1a), an image of scattered light from the particle in a detection region in the flow passage (1a), the light passing through the detection region. A particle size specifying unit specifies a movement amount of the particle in a two-dimensional direction by Brownian motion based on multiple still images of a particle image captured at a predetermined frame rate by the imaging unit (4), thereby specifying the particle size of the particle from the movement amount in the two-dimensional direction.