Patent 10415577 was granted and assigned to Shimadzu Corp. on September, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A deposition substance monitoring device of a vacuum pump for rotatably driving a rotor by a motor to exhaust gas, comprises: a state determination section configured to determine whether or not the vacuum pump is in a predetermined exhaust state; and a deposition amount determination section configured to receive a deposition amount indicator for an amount of a deposition substance in the pump to determine as excessive deposition when the deposition amount indicator in the predetermined exhaust state is equal to or greater than an acceptable deposition threshold.