Improvements in centrifuges.

摘要

A self-balancing contrifuge has a rotor (102) driven by a shaft (56) journalled in bearings (54, 114) supported by upper and lower flexible bearing mounts (120, 48). The horizontally flexible bearing mounting planes thus provided give a greater degree of freedom for the axis of rotation (R) of the rotor to move into a coincident relationship with the angular momentum vector of the rotor as it changes with dynamic imbalance thereby to compensate for any imbalance which may occur in the centrifuge rotor during centrifuging. The centrifuge is particularly intended for use in processing blood.