Centrifuge

Abstract

In a centrifuge comprising a rotor mounted on a drive shaft to be rotatable and having a plurality of bucket accommodating portions and a plurality of buckets placed in the bucket accommodating portions to be swingable, a plurality of sensors are provided to detect each of the buckets. In a case in which each of the sensors does not the bucket when the rotor is in a stop condition or in a low-speed rotation condition, a decision is made that an abnormality of a swinging movement of the bucket has occurred, and the fact of the occurrence of the abnormality is notified to a user. This allows abnormal conditions of the apparatus to be detected, thus protecting a sample and apparatus and enabling the maintenance of the apparatus in advance.

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