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US 11,307,213 B2Granted
Specimen processing apparatus and specimen processing method
AssigneeSysmex Corporation
InventorYuuichi Hamada
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Abstract
A specimen processing apparatus may include: an aspirating tube configured to aspirates a specimen in automatic aspiration and manual aspiration; an aspirating tube moving mechanism configured to move the aspirating tube between a first region in which the automatic aspiration is performed and a second region in which the manual aspiration is performed, the first region covered with a wall, the second region separated from the first region; and a processing unit that processes the specimen aspirated by the aspirating tube.
Claims18
A specimen processing apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- an aspirating tube configured to aspirate a specimen in automatic aspiration and manual aspiration;
- an aspirating tube moving mechanism configured to move the aspirating tube between a first region in which the automatic aspiration is performed inside the housing in an aspirating position of the aspirating tube and a second region in which the manual aspiration is performed outside of the housing in an aspirating position of the aspirating tube, the aspirating position of the aspirating tube in the second region separated from the aspirating position of the aspirating tube in the first region by the housing;
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- a processing unit that processes the specimen aspirated by the aspirating tube, wherein
- the aspirating tube moving mechanism is configured to move the aspirating tube to the aspirating position in the second region so that a tip of the aspirating tube is located outside the housing.
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