Patent ID: 7744273

Claim:
A thermal analysis apparatus comprising: a heating furnace; a heater heating an inside of the heating furnace; a temperature detector measuring a temperature of the heating furnace inside; a temperature program setter which can set a temperature program making a temperature change, of the heating furnace inside, complying with an elapse of time and outputs a temperature program signal; a temperature control section adjusting a supply electric power to the heater in compliance with a difference between the temperature program signal and a detection signal of the temperature detector; a processor section calculating a cooling gas flow rate corresponding to a programmed temperature of the temperature program; and a cooling gas flow rate adjustment section which is connected to the temperature program setter through the processor section, and adjusts a cooling gas flow rate supplied to the heating furnace inside in compliance with a signal of the cooling gas flow rate calculated by the processor section, wherein in the processor section, operation expressions calculating the cooling gas flow rate are set so as to differ respectively in a higher temperature side and a lower temperature side than a predetermined boundary temperature, and the cooling gas flow rate calculated by the operation expression in the higher temperature side is made a degree that does not damage the heating furnace; wherein the temperature program set by the program setter comprises: a first operation expression on the higher temperature side; a second operation expression on the lower temperature side, and wherein cooling gas flow rate curves found from each of the first operation expression and the second operation expression are connected by another cooling gas flow rate curve found from a third operation expression such that the entire cooling gas flow curves maintain continuity.