Dropping rate measuring device, dropping rate controller, drip infusion device, and liquid droplet volume measuring device
AssigneeMurata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsAtsuhiko Hirata, Nobuhiro Kondo, Yuzo Higashiyama, Yoshitaka Hane, Yoshihide Amagai
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Abstract
A dropping rate measuring device for measuring a flow rate of liquid droplets which grow on a lower end of a nozzle and intermittently drop from the lower end of the nozzle includes an imaging unit that images a growing liquid droplet which is growing on the lower end of the nozzle at a plurality of time points and acquires a plurality of pieces of image data of the growing liquid droplet, and a data processor that calculates the flow rate by analyzing the plurality of pieces of image data acquired by the imaging unit.
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A dropping rate measuring device for measuring a flow rate of liquid droplets which grow on a lower end of a nozzle and intermittently drop from the lower end of the nozzle, the device comprising:
- a camera configured to image a liquid droplet growing on the lower end of the nozzle at a plurality of time points and acquire image data of the growing liquid droplet;
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- a processor configured to calculate the flow rate by analyzing the image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.