Automated analyzer
AssigneeHitachi High-Tech Corporation
InventorsDaisuke Ebihara, Shinya Matsuoka
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Abstract
To provide an automatic analyzer capable of relaxing the effect of a previously created mixed liquid when a new mixed liquid is created. An automatic analyzer according to the present disclosure: is configured so as to create a second mixed liquid after a first mixed liquid is created; and introduces a relaxation reagent to relax the effect of a first reagent remaining in a mixed liquid chamber when the second mixed liquid is created into the mixed liquid chamber on the basis of characteristics of the first mixed liquid.
Claims26
An automatic analyzer for analyzing an analyte by using a reagent, the automatic analyzer comprising:
- a mixed liquid chamber to create a mixed liquid by mixing the reagent with another liquid;
- a nozzle to introduce the reagent into the mixed liquid chamber;
- a control unit to control the nozzle;
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- a memory unit to store data describing characteristics of the first reagent,
- wherein the nozzle creates a first mixed liquid by introducing a first reagent into the mixed liquid chamber,
- wherein the nozzle creates a second mixed liquid by introducing a second reagent into the mixed liquid chamber after the first mixed liquid is discharged from the mixed liquid chamber, and
- wherein the nozzle introduces a relaxation reagent to relax an effect of the first reagent remaining in the mixed liquid chamber into the mixed liquid chamber when the second mixed liquid is created on the basis of characteristics of the first reagent, and
- wherein the control unit specifies a reagent to relax the effect of the first reagent remaining in the mixed liquid chamber when the second mixed liquid is created in accordance with the characteristics of the first reagent described by the data and uses the specified reagent as the relaxation reagent.
An automatic analyzer for analyzing an analyte by using a reagent, the automatic analyzer comprising:
- a mixed liquid chamber to create a mixed liquid by mixing the reagent with another liquid;
- a nozzle to introduce the reagent into the mixed liquid chamber;
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- a control unit to control the nozzle;
- wherein the nozzle creates a first mixed liquid by introducing a first reagent into the mixed liquid chamber,
- wherein the nozzle creates a second mixed liquid by introducing a second reagent into the mixed liquid chamber after the first mixed liquid is discharged from the mixed liquid chamber,
- wherein the nozzle introduces a relaxation reagent to relax an effect of the first reagent remaining in the mixed liquid chamber into the mixed liquid chamber when the second mixed liquid is created on the basis of characteristics of the first reagent, and
- wherein the control unit decides a quantity of the relaxation reagent in accordance with a liquid quantity of the first reagent remaining in the mixed liquid chamber after operation of discharging the first mixed liquid from the mixed liquid chamber is performed.
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