Sample Conveying Device, Sample Analysis System, and Sample Pretreatment System
AssigneeHitachi High-Tech Corporation
InventorsYuichiro SHIGA, Kuniaki ONIZAWA
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Abstract
There is provided a sample conveying device capable of maintaining conveyance thrust for a sample container even when a conductor resistance is changed due to the heat generated in a winding. A sample conveying device according to the present invention calculates a decrease in the current from a set current value due to an increase in a conductor resistance of a winding when the current flows through the winding to change the current value of the current by using the calculated decrease.
Claims12
A sample conveying device that conveys a sample container containing a sample, the device comprising:
- a magnetic material that is disposed in a conveyance path on which the sample container is conveyed;
- a magnetic circuit that includes windings wound around an outer circumference of the magnetic material;
- a driving unit that supplies a current to the winding;
- a current detection unit that detects a current value of a current flowing through the magnetic circuit;
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- an arithmetic unit that controls the driving unit, wherein
- when the current flows through the winding, the magnetic circuit generates a magnetic force acting on the sample container to move the sample container on the conveyance path,
- the arithmetic unit controls the driving unit so as to supply the current having a set current value set in advance to cause the sample container to perform a predetermined movement operation on the conveyance path to the winding,
- the arithmetic unit calculates a decrease in the current from the set current value due to an increase in a conductor resistance of the winding when the current flows through the winding, and
- the arithmetic unit causes the sample container to perform the movement operation on the conveyance path by changing the current value of the current according to the calculated decrease.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.