Specimen processing apparatus and specimen processing method
AssigneeSysmex Corporation
InventorYuuichi HAMADA
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Abstract
A specimen processing apparatus may include: an aspirating tube configured to aspirates a specimen in automatic aspiration and manual aspiration; an aspirating tube moving mechanism configured to move the aspirating tube between a first region in which the automatic aspiration is performed and a second region in which the manual aspiration is performed, the first region covered with a wall, the second region separated from the first region; and a processing unit that processes the specimen aspirated by the aspirating tube.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A specimen processing method with a specimen processing apparatus comprising a housing, an aspirating tube configured to aspirate a specimen, and a processing unit configured to process the aspirated specimen, the method comprising:
- performing, in a first region inside the housing, automatic aspiration for a specimen by the aspirating tube;
- and
- performing, in a second region separated from the first region, manual aspiration for a specimen by the aspirating tube moved to the second region from the first region, a tip of the aspirating tube being located outside the housing for the manual aspiration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.