Patent ID: 7748894

Claim:
A thermal analysis equipment for performing thermal analysis, the thermal analysis equipment comprising: a heating furnace that heats a sample; a temperature controller that controls a temperature of the heating furnace; a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the sample; a physical quantity sensor that detects a change in physical quantity of the sample; thermal analysis data preservation means for preserving, as thermal analysis data, signals from the temperature sensor and the physical quantity sensor; electromagnetic-wave data acquisition means for acquiring electromagnetic wave data obtained by detecting electromagnetic waves from the sample; electromagnetic-wave data acquisition trigger setting means for setting a trigger to acquire the electromagnetic wave data; electromagnetic-wave data acquisition control means for controlling acquisition of the electromagnetic wave data in accordance with setting of the trigger by the electromagnetic-wave data acquisition trigger setting means; electromagnetic-wave data preservation means for preserving the electromagnetic wave data; and electromagnetic-wave data correlation means for correlating the preserved electromagnetic wave data to a position on the thermal analysis data obtained by a thermal analysis data position indicating means obtained by a thermal analysis data position indicating means when the trigger is set by the electromagnetic-wave data acquisition trigger setting means.