Analyzing apparatus for laboratory test
AssigneesCanon Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaaki Kobayashi, Toshihiko Takahashi
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Abstract
Provided is an analyzing program for a laboratory test, which stores a measurement program for concurrently processing inspection cartridges regarding all the combinations of prepared reaction and measurement patterns, the analyzing program causing an analyzing apparatus to execute the processes of reading the reaction and measurement patterns of the inspection cartridges in each of which one of the reaction and measurement patterns prepared in advance is provided, invoking a measurement program corresponding to a combination of the read reaction and measurement patterns, and performing reaction and measurement in accordance with the invoked measurement program.
Claims11
An analyzing apparatus for a laboratory test, which is configured to concurrently process multiple inspection cartridges, each cartridge having a reaction and measurement pattern which is formed of a combination of a reaction and measurement time and a step, the analyzing apparatus comprising:
- at least one of transport units, dispensing units, and measuring units, in which at least one of the transport units, the dispensing units, and the measuring units is shared among the multiple inspection cartridges;
- a placement region for the multiple inspection cartridges;
- a measurement program storing unit configured to store a measurement program for concurrently processing the multiple inspection cartridges so that the at least one units shared among the multiple inspection cartridges is not used simultaneously by the multiple inspection cartridges regarding all combinations of prepared reaction and measurement patterns;
- a reaction and measurement pattern collecting unit configured to read the reaction and measurement patterns of the multiple inspection cartridges;
- an arithmetic processing unit configured to invoke a measurement program corresponding to a combination of the read reaction and measurement patterns;
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- a measurement unit having a mechanism configured to perform reaction and measurement in accordance with the measurement program.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an analyzing program for causing a computer to execute steps of a laboratory test for concurrently processing multiple inspection cartridges each having a reaction and measurement pattern formed of a combination of a reaction and measurement time and a step in an analyzing apparatus for a laboratory test, the analyzing apparatus including at least one of transport units, dispensing units, and measuring units, and a placement region for the multiple inspection cartridges, at least one of the transport units, the dispensing units, and the measuring units being shared among the multiple inspection cartridges,
- the analyzing program storing a measurement program for concurrently processing the multiple inspection cartridges so that the at least one units shared among the multiple inspection cartridges is not used simultaneously by the multiple inspection cartridges regarding all combinations of prepared reaction and measurement patterns,
- the analyzing program causing the analyzing apparatus to execute the processes of:
- reading the reaction and measurement patterns of the multiple inspection cartridges in each of which one of the reaction and measurement patterns corresponding to various reaction and measurement times and steps prepared in advance is provided;
- invoking a measurement program corresponding to a combination of the read reaction and measurement patterns;
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- performing reaction and measurement in accordance with the invoked measurement program.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.