Dispensing apparatus, dispensing method, and computer-readable recording medium
AssigneeYokogawa Electric Corporation
InventorsTakumi Fukuda, Noriaki Ujiie, Koji Ohashi
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Abstract
A tip 230 holds a liquid and discharges the liquid to a well 310. A dispensing unit 220 performs a dispensing process by discharging a constant dispensing amount of the liquid out of the liquid that is held by the tip 230 to the well 310. An arithmetic unit 10 calculates a dispensing position with respect to the well 310 based on container information on the well 310 and information on the dispensing amount, and causes the dispensing unit 220 to perform the dispensing process at the dispensing position.
Claims12
A dispensing apparatus comprising:
- a tip that holds a liquid and discharges the liquid to a dispensing container;
- a dispensing unit that performs a dispensing process by discharging a constant dispensing amount of the liquid out of the liquid held by the tip to the dispensing container;
- and
- an arithmetic unit
- that calculates a dispensing position with respect to the dispensing container based on container information on the dispensing container and information on the dispensing amount, the dispensing position being a position of a liquid surface of the liquid in the dispensing container after the dispensing process, and
- that causes the dispensing unit to perform the dispensing process at the dispensing position.
A dispensing method that causes a computer to execute a process comprising:
- calculating a dispensing position with respect to a dispensing container based on container information on the dispensing container that contains a liquid discharged from a tip that holds the liquid and information on a constant dispensing amount of the liquid to be discharged to the tip, the dispensing position being a position of a liquid surface of the liquid in the dispensing container after the dispensing process;
- moving the tip to the dispensing position;
- and
- performing a dispensing process by discharging the dispensing amount of the liquid out of the liquid that is held by the tip to the dispensing container.
A computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a dispensing program that causes a computer to execute a process comprising:
- calculating a dispensing position with respect to a dispensing container based on container information on the dispensing container that contains a liquid discharged from a tip that holds the liquid and information on a constant dispensing amount of the liquid to be discharged to the tip, the dispensing position being a position of a liquid surface of the liquid in the dispensing container after the dispensing process;
- moving the tip to the dispensing position;
- and
- performing a dispensing process by discharging the dispensing amount of the liquid out of the liquid that is held by the tip to the dispensing container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.