Tablet Hardness Tester
Lead Time: 2-3 Weeks
THDT-1 Pharmaceutical Testing Tablet Hardness Tester
Tablet hardness tester is used to measure the crushing hardness of tablets.
A tablet hardness tester is a device used in the pharmaceutical industry to measure the mechanical strength of tablets by determining the force required to break them.
These instruments are crucial for quality control, ensuring tablets can withstand handling and transport without crumbling.
They work by applying a controlled force to a tablet placed between two anvils until it fractures, with the peak force at the breaking point being recorded.
Tablet Hardness Tester Key features and principles
- Purpose: To assess a tablet’s mechanical integrity and ensure consistency.
- Force application: A probe or upper anvil applies increasing pressure to a tablet, which is supported by a lower anvil, until the tablet breaks.
- Measurement: The maximum force required to fracture the tablet is continuously monitored and recorded.
- Units: Results are often reported in Newtons (N), kilograms (kg), pounds (lb), or grams (g).
- Compliance: Many modern testers comply with pharmacopoeial standards (like USP and Ph. Eur.) and regulatory guidelines (like 21 CFR Part 11).
Types of testers
- Manual/Semi-automatic: Involve manual placement of tablets and operation. Some may feature a revolving magazine for testing multiple tablets at once.
- Automatic: Designed for high throughput and can automatically perform runs on a set number of tablets, often with features like auto-alignment for different tablet shapes.
- Multi-parameter: Some advanced models can measure additional parameters like thickness, length, width, and weight in addition to hardness.
Why they are important
- Quality control: Ensures that tablets are hard enough to survive production, packaging, and shipping, but not so hard that they cannot be properly dissolved and absorbed in the body.
- Consistency: By ensuring every batch has a similar hardness, manufacturers can maintain consistent performance and quality.
Features:
- High-precision pressure sensor ensures the precision and reproducibility of test.
- Manual loading and manual tablet compressing, easy operation.
- The system can realize automatic display, automatic latching, automatic reset, automatic cycle test, automatic linear error correction and automatic fault diagnosis.
- Provide the function of unit conversion, which can realize the conversion both before or after the tests.
- The user can use the standard weight to correct the measurement accuracy of the instrument regularly, which is very convenient.
Tablet Hardness Tester Specifications
| Hardness test range | 2-198N 0.2KG-20KG |
| Resolution | 0.1N 0.01Kg |
| Hardness measurement accuracy | range: ±0.5% |
| Tablet measurement diameter | 2-20mm |
| Machine power | 10W |
| Overall dimensions | L*W*H 280mm*180mm*110mm |
