US 8,151,190 B2Granted

Analysis device

AssigneeHitachi High-Technologies Corporation

InventorsMiki Taki, Yoshimitsu Takagi

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Abstract

An analysis device allowing any person to utilize job guidance for setting and assignment operations with high efficiency regardless of a level of skill in an automatic analysis device which has a complicated screen configuration with an increase of functions. A storage unit stores a job guidance file and a correspondence list file indicating correspondences between procedure IDs, codes, buttons, etc. in the job guidance file and screen IDs for device control program software. When an operator selects the procedure ID or the like in a displayed job guidance window, control is performed such that the screen ID corresponding to the selected procedure ID or the like is searched for in the correspondence list file, and the displayed screen is shifted to one corresponding to the searched screen ID for the device control program software.

Claims7

Dependent claims

An analysis device comprising an analysis unit for analyzing a sample, a storage unit for storing plural kinds of device control program information for said analysis unit and corresponding job guidance information, a display unit for displaying the plural kinds of device control program information and the job guidance information, and a control unit configured to control said analysis unit, said storage unit and said display unit,

wherein the plural kinds of device control program information stored in said storage unit are provided with respective identification symbols and the job guidance information is stored in said storage unit corresponding to the identification symbols;
said control unit is configured to control said display unit to display one kind of device control program information selected by an operator from among said plural kinds of device control program information along with a specific key, and when the displayed specific key is manipulated by the operator, said control unit is configured to store the identification symbol of the one kind of device control program information selected by the operator in said storage unit and change said display unit to display the job guidance information corresponding to the stored identification symbol;
when the operator, while the job guidance information is displayed, selects a procedure explained in the displayed job guidance information, the control unit is configured to store into the storage unit the identification symbol of another kind of device control program information which corresponds to the selected procedure;
and
when the operator instructs the end of display of the job guidance information, said control unit is further configured to change said display unit to display the another kind of device control program information which corresponds to the selected procedure with the identification symbol stored in said storage unit and which differs from the one kind of device control program information displayed before the specific key is manipulated.

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An analysis device comprising an analysis unit for analyzing a sample, a storage unit for storing plural kinds of device control program information for said analysis unit, a display unit for displaying the plural kinds of device control program information, and a control unit configured to control said analysis unit, said storage unit and said display unit,

wherein said display unit displays one kind of the plural kinds of device control program information;
said analysis device includes manual means containing job guidance information and having identification keys assigned respectively to job explanation items in the job guidance information;
the plural kinds of device control program information are stored in said storage unit corresponding to the identification keys in said manual means;
said manual means includes sensors disposed corresponding to the job explanation items in the job guidance information and sensing manipulations of the identification keys, respectively;
and
when any of said sensors senses the manipulation of any of the identification keys disposed in said manual means, said control unit is configured to display, in said display unit, the device control program information stored in said storage unit corresponding to the manipulated identification key which differs from the one kind of the plural kinds of device control program information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/498,900Filed 4 Aug 2006
Priority: JP 2005-2277715 Aug 2005
Published: US 2007/0038411 A115 Feb 2007
Granted: 3 Apr 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G01N 35/00722
Control arrangements for automatic analysers: communications; Identification
G06F 9/453
Execution arrangements for user interfaces: help systems
G01N 2035/0091
Displaying information to the operator: gUI [graphical user interfaces]
G01N
Investigating or analysing materials by determining their chemical or physical properties

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