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US 2014/0212248 A1Published application
Tube sorter and tube sorting system
AssigneeSysmex Corporation
InventorsKei TAKAI, Nobuyoshi YAMAKAWA, Hiroo TATSUTANI, Yuji TAKANO
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Abstract
Disclosed is a tube sorter comprising: a transporting section configured to transport a sample rack; a storage arranged at a higher level than the transporting section, capable of storing a plurality of sample tubes; a lifting section configured to lift up the sample rack transported by the rack transporting section; and a sample tube transferring section configured to remove a sample tube from the sample rack lifted up by the lifting section and set the removed sample tube in the storage.
Claims20
A tube sorter comprising:
- a transporting section configured to transport a sample rack;
- a storage arranged at a higher level than the transporting section, capable of storing a plurality of sample tubes;
- a lifting section configured to lift up the sample rack transported by the rack transporting section;
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- a sample tube transferring section configured to remove a sample tube from the sample rack lifted up by the lifting section and set the removed sample tube in the storage.
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A tube sorter comprising:
- a transporting section configured to transport a sample rack along a transporting path;
- a lifting section configured to lift the sample rack up at a predetermined position on the way of the transporting path;
- a storage arranged at a higher level than the transporting section, capable of storing a plurality of sample tubes;
- a tube transferring section configured to transfer a sample tube between the storage and the sample rack lifted up by the lifting section;
- wherein the rack transporting section is configured to transport a sample rack to pass through the predetermined position beneath another sample rack while the lifting section is lifting it up.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.