Automatic analyzer
AssigneeHitachi High-Technologies Corporation
InventorsTakamichi Mori, Hitoshi Tokieda
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Abstract
One actuator (a gripper mechanism and reagent bottle lid opening mechanism drive unit 120) drives a gripper mechanism 106 that holds a reagent bottle 10 and a reagent bottle lid opening mechanism 104 that incises a lid of the reagent bottle 10. The gripper mechanism 106 operates to ascend when the reagent bottle lid opening mechanism 104 operates to descend in order to incise the reagent bottle lid 112, and the reagent bottle lid opening mechanism 104 operates to ascend when the gripper mechanism 106 operates to descend in order to hold the reagent bottle 10. The reagent bottle lid opening mechanism 104 and the gripper mechanism 106 operate without interfering with each other's functions.
Claims15
An automatic analyzer configured to dispense a sample and a reagent to each of a plurality of reaction containers to react the sample and the reagent, the automatic analyzer configured to measure a liquid that has reacted, the automatic analyzer comprising:
- a reagent disk configured to store a reagent bottle that has housed the reagent;
- a reagent mounting unit configured to be provided with the reagent bottle in loading the reagent bottle into the automatic analyzer;
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- a reagent conveying unit including a gripper unit that holds the reagent bottle and a reagent bottle lid opening unit that makes a hole in a lid of the reagent bottle, the reagent conveying unit configured to convey the reagent bottle that has been provided to the reagent mounting unit, into the reagent disk,
- wherein a gripper unit and reagent bottle lid opening unit drive unit is configured to coordinate and drive the gripper unit and the reagent bottle lid opening unit in the reagent conveying unit, so that when the reagent bottle opening unit moves in an upper or lower direction, the gripper unit simultaneously moves in the lower or upper direction reversely to the reagent bottle lid opening unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.