Sample processing apparatus, sample analyzer, sample analyzing system, sample processing system and sample processing method
AssigneeSysmex Corporation
InventorHiroo TATSUTANI
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Abstract
The present invention is a sample processing apparatus. The sample processing apparatus includes: a reader configured to read, from a storage medium attached to a sample container containing a sample or a sample rack supporting the sample container, an analysis value which has been generated by a sample analyzer analyzing the sample for a predetermined analysis item; a sample processing section which comprises an operating mechanism configured to perform an operation for processing the sample, and a controller configured to control the operating mechanism of the sample processing section so as to perform processing on the sample based on the analysis value read by the reader.
Claims20
A sample processing apparatus comprising:
- a reader configured to read, from a storage medium attached to a sample container containing a sample or a sample rack supporting the sample container, an analysis value which has been generated by a sample analyzer analyzing the sample for a predetermined analysis item;
- a sample processing section which comprises an operating mechanism configured to perform an operation for processing the sample, and
- a controller configured to control the operating mechanism of the sample processing section so as to perform processing on the sample based on the analysis value read by the reader.
A sample analyzer comprising:
- a sample analyzing section configured to analyze a sample to generate an analysis value for a predetermined analysis item;
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- a writing device configured to write the analysis value generated by the sample analyzing section, into a storage medium attached to a sample container containing the sample analyzed by the sample analyzing section or a sample rack supporting the sample container.
A sample analyzing system comprising:
- a sample analyzer comprising:
- a sample analyzing section configured to analyze a sample to generate an analysis value for a predetermined analysis item;
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- a writing device configured to write the analysis value generated by the sample analyzing section, into a storage medium attached to a sample container containing the sample analyzed by the sample analyzing section or a sample rack supporting the sample container;
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- a sample processing apparatus comprising:
- a reader configured to read the analysis value written by the writing device from the storage medium;
- a sample processing section comprising an operating mechanism configured to perform an operation for processing the sample;
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- a controller configured to control the operating mechanism of the sample processing section so as to perform processing on the sample based on the analysis value read by the reader.
A sample processing system comprising:
- a sample analyzing section configured to analyze a sample to generate an analysis value for a predetermined analysis item;
- a transporting apparatus configured to transport a sample container containing the sample analyzed by the sample analyzing section or a sample rack supporting the sample container;
- a first to an nth sample processing sections each comprising an operating mechanism configured to perform an operation for processing the sample transported by the transporting apparatus, and arranged downstream to the sample analyzing section in a sample transporting direction of the transporting apparatus;
- a writer configured to write the analysis value generated by the sample analyzing section into a storage medium attached to the sample container containing the sample analyzed by the sample analyzing section or the sample rack supporting the sample container;
- a reader configured to read the analysis value written by the writer from the storage medium;
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- a transportation controller configured to determine, from among the first to the nth sample processing sections, a transportation destination for the sample analyzed by the sample analyzing section, based on the analysis value read by the reader, and configured to control a transporting operation of the transporting apparatus so as to transport the sample to the determined transportation destination.
A sample processing method to be used in a sample processing system which includes a sample analyzer and at least one sample processing apparatus, the method comprising:
- writing an analysis value generated by the sample analyzer analyzing a sample for a predetermined analysis item, into a storage medium attached to a sample container containing the sample or a sample rack supporting the sample container;
- reading the analysis value from the storage medium in the sample processing apparatus;
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- performing processing on the sample by using the sample processing apparatus, based on the read analysis value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.