Syringe pumps
A syringe pump has a motor 9 rotating a leadscrew 8 to drive a plunger head actuator 10 along it. The head actuator 10 engages the plunger 35 of a syringe 3 and moves the plunger along the syringe barrel 30 to dispense medication. An optical encoder 20 mounted on the leadscrew 8 is rotated by the mo...
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Zusammenfassung: | A syringe pump has a motor 9 rotating a leadscrew 8 to drive a plunger head actuator 10 along it. The head actuator 10 engages the plunger 35 of a syringe 3 and moves the plunger along the syringe barrel 30 to dispense medication. An optical encoder 20 mounted on the leadscrew 8 is rotated by the motor 9 to produce a pulse output. A control unit 11 times the interval between the pulses and compares these timings with a stored value representative of a predetermined multiple of the minimum time. If the head actuator 10 is obstructed, the speed of rotation of the motor 9 is slowed and the time interval between pulses rises. When this exceeds the stored value, the control unit 11 stops the drive to the head actuator 10 and generates an alarm. |
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