Patent ID: 8772738

Claim:
A particle analyzing apparatus, comprising: a flow cell which forms a specimen flow including particles; first and second light sources; an irradiation optical system which applies first light emitted from the first light source and second light emitted from the second light source onto the specimen flow; a detector which detects forward scattered light caused by irradiation of the first light onto the particles in the specimen flow, and generates a signal according to the detected forward scattered light; a controller which obtains characteristic parameters of the particles based on the signals from the detector; an imaging device which captures images of the particles in the specimen flow using the second light, and a single light blocking member which is disposed between the flow cell and the detector, and which is disposed between the flow cell and the imaging device; wherein the single light blocking member is disposed so as to block a direct ray of the first light entering into the detector and block at least a part of a direct ray of the second light entering into the imaging device.