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.
Claims26
-20. (canceled)
A specimen processing apparatus comprising:
- an aspirating tube configured to aspirates a specimen, wherein the aspirating tube is movable between a first region in which an automatic aspiration is performed and a second region in which a manual aspiration is performed;
- a processing unit configured to process the specimen aspirated by the aspirating tube;
- a housing;
- and
- a controller configured to causes the aspirating tube to aspirate a specimen disposed inside the housing in the first region and to aspirate a specimen from a specimen container disposed outside the housing in the second region.
A specimen processing method with a specimen processing apparatus comprising an aspirating tube configured to aspirate a specimen, the method comprising:
- performing, in a first region, automatic aspiration for a specimen disposed inside a housing by the aspirating tube;
- and
- performing, in a second region, manual aspiration for a specimen in a specimen container disposed outside the housing by the aspirating tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.