US 2026/0194547 A1Published application

System and Method for Conveying Sample, and Computer Equipment

AssigneeShenzhen New Industries Biomedical Engineering Co., Ltd.

InventorsJinhong WU, Junhui TANG, Jinqi LI, Longji LI, Jun PAN, Liyang XIAO, Kaiying ZENG

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Abstract

A system and method for conveying a sample, and a computer equipment. According to the disclosure, when an urgent sample to be tested needs to enter an inner track and be preferentially extracted by an extraction assembly, positional order of a carrier carrying an ordinary sample to be tested and a carrier carrying the urgent sample to be tested can be adjusted according to a running condition of the carriers on the inner track at a current moment, such that the urgent sample to be tested can be extracted and tested before the ordinary sample to be tested, and the ordinary sample to be tested that suffers queue jumping can also continue moving in the inner track. After the urgent sample to be tested is extracted, the ordinary sample can enter a sample extraction place through the inner track in time to be extracted by the extraction assembly.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A system for conveying a sample, comprising:

a conveying assembly comprising a main track and a first inner track, wherein the main track and the first inner track are both used to allow a carrier to move independently and circularly in a designated direction, the carrier is used to carry the sample, and the first inner track has a sample extraction place;
a first transfer assembly, wherein the first transfer assembly is arranged between the main track and the first inner track and is used to allow the carrier to move between the main track and the first inner track, the first inner track has a first inlet and a first outlet, the first transfer assembly connects the first inlet and the first outlet, and the sample extraction place is located between the first inlet and the first outlet;
an extraction assembly, wherein the extraction assembly is arranged at an arrangement place corresponding to the sample extraction place of the first inner track and is used to extract the sample;
a first recognition assembly, wherein the first recognition assembly is arranged at a connection port of the first transfer assembly with the main track and the first inlet of the first inner track and is used to recognize a sample type of the sample carried by the carrier entering the first transfer assembly from the main track, and the sample type comprises an urgent sample to be tested and an ordinary sample to be tested;
and
a controller,
wherein the controller is used to:
control the first transfer assembly to transfer the carrier carrying the urgent sample to be tested from the main track to the first inner track when the first recognition assembly recognizes the urgent sample to be tested, and
convey at least part of original carriers carrying the ordinary samples to be tested on the first inner track to the first outlet, wherein the controller is used to control the first transfer assembly to transfer the carrier carrying an untested ordinary sample to be tested from the first outlet to the first inlet to enter the first inner track when the original carrier carrying the ordinary sample to be tested reaches the first outlet.

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A method for conveying a sample, comprising:

recognizing a sample type of the sample carried by a carrier, through a first recognition assembly and a second recognition assembly, wherein the sample type comprises an urgent sample to be tested and an ordinary sample to be tested;
the first recognition assembly is arranged at a connection port of a first transfer assembly with a main track and a first inner track, the main track and the first inner track are used to drive the carrier to move independently and circularly in a designated direction, and the main track and the first inner track are in communication through the first transfer assembly to allow the carrier to move between the main track and the first inner track;
and the first inner track has a sample extraction place, and a first inlet and a first outlet that are in communication with the first transfer assembly, the sample extraction place is located between the first inlet and the first outlet, and the second recognition assembly is arranged at the first outlet;
controlling the first transfer assembly to transfer the carrier carrying the urgent sample to be tested from the main track to the first inner track when the first recognition assembly recognizes that the sample type of the sample carried by the carrier located at the first transfer assembly on the main track is the urgent sample to be tested;
conveying at least part of original carriers carrying the ordinary samples to be tested on the first inner track to the first outlet;
and
controlling the first transfer assembly to transfer the carrier carrying an untested ordinary sample to be tested from the first outlet to the first inlet to enter the first inner track when the original carrier carrying the ordinary sample to be tested reaches the first outlet.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 19/421,655Filed 16 Dec 2025
Priority: CN 202510034049.77 Jan 2025
Published: 9 Jul 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

G01N 35/0092
Control arrangements for automatic analysers: scheduling
G01N 35/00732
Communications; Identification: identification of carriers, materials or components in automatic analysers
G01N 35/0095
Scheduling: introducing urgent samples with priority, e.g. Short Turn Around Time Samples [STATS]
G01N 35/04
Using a plurality of sample containers moved by a conveyor system past one or more treatment or analysis stations: details of the conveyor system