Transporting apparatus
AssigneeSysmex Corporation
InventorHiroki Koike
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A transporting apparatus is described, a representative one of which includes a transporting apparatus which transports at least one specimen container accommodated in a rack to a specimen supplying position for supplying a specimen processing apparatus, comprising: a transport mechanism configured to transport the at least one specimen container to the specimen supplying position by transporting the rack; and a detection unit for obtaining information specifying the position of the rack being transported by the transport mechanism.
Claims20
A transporting apparatus which transports at least one specimen container accommodated in a rack to a specimen supplying position for supplying a specimen processing apparatus, comprising:
- a transport mechanism configured to transport the at least one specimen container to the specimen supplying position by transporting the rack;
- and
- a detection unit for obtaining information specifying the position of the rack being transported by the transport mechanism.
A transporting apparatus which transports at least one specimen container accommodated in a rack to a specimen supplying position for supplying a specimen processing apparatus, comprising:
- a transport mechanism configured to transport the at least one specimen container to the specimen supplying position by transporting the rack along a transport path extending in a predetermined direction;
- and
- a detection unit for obtaining information representing the position of the rack whenever a rack is transported by the transporting mechanism;
- wherein the position information at adjacent positions on the transport path are mutually different information.
A transport system comprising:
- a specimen processing apparatus configured to process specimen samples in a specimen container;
- a transporting apparatus which transports at least one specimen container accommodated in a rack to a specimen supplying position for supplying the specimen processing apparatus, comprises,
- a transporting mechanism configured to transport the at least one specimen container to the specimen supplying position by transporting the rack,
- a detection unit configured to obtain information specifying the position of the rack transported by the transporting mechanism;
- and
- a control unit configured to control the operation of the transporting apparatus;
- wherein the control unit determines whether or not a container accommodated in a rack has been transported to the specimen supplying position based on the position specifying information of the detection unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.