Analysis apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9778148-B2
Application number	US-201514975970-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 21, 2015
Priority date	Dec 26, 2014
Publication date	Oct 3, 2017
Grant date	Oct 3, 2017

Abstract

In order to remove dust attached to a filter member 40 to surely clean the filter member 40, an analysis apparatus 100 includes: a sample containing part 10 that contains a sample; the filter member 40 through which gas produced from the sample heated in the sample containing part 10 passes; and a gas flow path L1 adapted to lead the gas having passed through the filter member 40 to an analyzer. In addition, the filter member 40 is formed in a tubular shape, and in one end part of the filter member 40, a gas lead-out port 40a connecting to the gas flow path L1 is formed. Further, it is configured that the gas passes through a side wall part 42 of the filter member 40 from outside to inside, and flows from the gas lead-out port 40a to the gas flow path L1.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An analysis apparatus comprising:
a heating furnace comprising a heating furnace main body having a tubular member and a block body provided above the tubular member, the heating furnace containing a sample;
a filter member through which gas produced from the sample heated in the heating furnace passes; and
a gas flow path which leads the gas having passed through the filter member to an analyzer,
wherein the filter member is formed in a tubular shape, and the filter member comprises in one end part a gas lead-out port connecting to the gas flow path, and the filter member is provided in the block body to partition an internal space of the block body into an inner internal space and an outer internal space, wherein the inner internal space is communicatively connected with an internal space of the tubular member, such that the gas passes through a side wall part of the filter member from the outer internal space to the inner internal space and flows from the gas lead-out port to the gas flow path, and
wherein the filter member comprises:
a filter element formed in a tubular shape; and
a lower holding member which holds the filter element, wherein the lower holding member holds a supply path forming member which is arranged inside the inner internal space.

2. The analysis apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a cleaning gas supply mechanism that supplies cleaning gas for cleaning the filter member to an inside the filter member from a cleaning gas supply port formed in the one end part of the filter member,
wherein it is configured that the cleaning gas supplied by the cleaning gas supply mechanism passes through the side wall part of the filter member from inside to outside.

3. The analysis apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the filter member is provided above the sample; and
the sample containing part has a tubular member that contains the filter member, from an lower end part to an upper end part of the filter member, as well as the sample, and is formed of a single member.

4. The analysis apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the sample containing part has:
a heating furnace main body that heats the sample;
a lid body that is detachably attached to an upper part of the heating furnace main body, and holds the filter member as well as rotating around an axis along a direction of the attachment/detachment; and
a removal assisting mechanism that is provided between the heating furnace main body and the lid body, and converts force applied to the lid body in a rotational direction to force in a vertical direction and assists removal of the lid body.

5. An analysis apparatus comprising:
a sample containing part that contains a sample;
a filter element through which gas produced from the sample heated in the sample containing part passes, the filter element being formed in a tubular shape;
a lower holding member which holds the filter element;
an analyzer that analyzes the gas having passed through the filter element; and
a cleaning gas supply path which supplies cleaning gas for cleaning the filter element to an inside of the filter element from one end opening of the filter element,
wherein the filter element is configured such that the gas produced from the sample heated in the sample containing part passes through a side wall part of the filter element to the inside of the filter element, and
wherein the lower holding member holds a supply path forming member which is arranged inside an inner internal space of the sample containing part.

Assignees

• Horiba Ltd

Inventors

• Taniguchi Heihachiro
• Kurozumi Takuji
• Yamada Takahiro
• Hirata Yasushi

Classifications

• G01N35/1004 Primary

  Cleaning sample transfer devices · CPC title

• G01N21/3504

  for analysing gases, e.g. multi-gas analysis · CPC title

• G01N1/4022

  by thermal techniques; Phase changes · CPC title

• G01N1/2205 Primary

  with filters · CPC title

• G01N31/12

  using combustion (G01N25/20 takes precedence) · CPC title