Specimen dispensing system

Abstract

A specimen dispensing system includes a conveying mechanism for conveying a master specimen container containing a specimen and a required number of empty slave specimen containers on a conveyor lane, the master and slave specimen containers being aligned in a conveyance direction, a stopping mechanism for temporarily stopping the master and slave specimen containers when the master and slave specimen containers reach a position under a dispensing nozzle in a dispensing unit, and a dispensing unit for removing the specimen from the master specimen container by the dispensing nozzle when the master specimen container is temporarily stopped in the position under the dispensing nozzle and dispensing the specimen to the slave specimen containers when the slave specimen containers are temporarily stopped in the position under the dispensing nozzle.

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