PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an experimental animal-rearing unit, capable of surely and rapidly detecting the development of an abnormality in a rearing environment, without giving any serious damage to the animals under rearing, preventing the development of the microbiological pollution and death accident of the rearing animals, and capable of aiming at the great improvement of safety of the animal rearing, and a system for detecting the abnormality of the experimental animal-rearing unit, capable of watching the above for 24 h and all the year round by online.SOLUTION: The experimental animal-rearing unit includes an air-supplying means for supplying air into rearing chambers, the rearing chambers held as a prescribed shape swollen by air supply from the air-supplying means, an air-supplying filter installed between the air-supplying means and the rearing chambers, and a sensor for detecting the abnormality in the rearing chambers. It is preferable to have states that the abnormality of the rearing chambers is the reduction of the volume of the rearing chambers and the sensor is a magnetic sensor having a built-in lead switch, etc.COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT【課題】飼育環境の異常発生を迅速かつ確実に検知でき、飼育中の動物に重大なダメージを与えることなく、飼育動物の微生物学的汚染及び死亡事故の発生を防止でき、動物飼育の安全性の大幅な向上が図れる実験動物飼育装置、及び年中オンラインで24時間監視可能な実験動物飼育装置の異常検出システムの提供。【解決手段】飼育室内に空気を供給するための給気手段と、該給気手段からの給気によって膨らんだ所定形状に保持されている飼育室と、前記給気手段と前記飼育室の間に設けられた給気フィルタと、前記飼育室の異常を検知するために該飼育室に取り付けられたセンサと、を備えた実験動物飼育装置である。該飼育室の異常が、飼育室の体積減少である態様、該センサが、リードスイッチ内蔵の磁気センサである態様、などが好ましい。【選択図】図5
