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US 8,939,040 B2Granted
Analyzing apparatus and analyzing method
AssigneeSysmex Corporation
InventorsHiroyuki Tanaka, Hiroo Tatsutani
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Abstract
An analyzing apparatus comprising: a transporting device for transporting a sample; a plurality of measuring units, each measuring unit measuring a sample transported by the transporting device; a determination result obtainer for obtaining a determination result representing whether the sample requires remeasurement based on a measurement result by a predetermined measuring unit among the plurality of measuring units; a designation receiver for receiving a designation of one measuring unit for remeasuring the sample determined to be remeasured; and a transport controller for controlling the transporting device so as to transport the sample determined to be remeasured to the designated measuring unit. An analyzing method is also disclosed.
Claims20
An analyzing apparatus comprising:
- a transporting device for transporting a sample;
- a plurality of measuring units, each measuring unit measuring a sample transported by the transporting device, wherein the plurality of measuring units comprises three or more measuring units;
- a determination result obtainer for obtaining a determination result representing whether a sample requires remeasurement based on a measurement result by a predetermined measuring unit among the plurality of measuring units;
- a display unit configured to display a setting screen which is configured to selectively designate one measuring unit for remeasuring among the plurality of measuring units, wherein the display unit is further configured to receive a designation that any one of the other measuring units different from the predetermined measuring unit, which has initially measured the sample determined to be remeasured, remeasures the sample;
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- a transport controller for controlling the transporting device so as to transport the sample determined to be remeasured to the one measuring unit, wherein the transport controller:
- selects a measuring unit for remeasuring the sample from the other measuring units under predetermined condition, and controls the transport device so that the sample determined to be remeasured is transported to the selected measuring unit, when the display unit has received the designation that any one of the other measuring units different from the predetermined measuring unit remeasure the sample;
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- obtains respective processing loads of the plurality of measuring units, and selects the measuring unit with the lightest processing load as the measuring unit for remeasuring the sample.
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An analyzing apparatus comprising:
- a transporting device for transporting a sample;
- a plurality of measuring units, each measuring unit measuring a sample transported by the transporting device;
- a determination result obtainer for obtaining a determination result representing whether the sample requires remeasurement based on the measurement result by a predetermined measuring unit among the plurality of measuring units;
- a time obtainer for obtaining, for each of the plurality of the measuring units, a time required to re-measure the sample determined to be remeasured;
- a selector for selecting, from among the plurality of measuring units, a measuring unit with the shortest time required to re-measure the sample as the measuring unit for remeasuring the sample;
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- a transport controller for controlling the transporting device so as to transport the sample determined to be remeasured to the selected measuring unit, wherein
- the time obtainer obtains the time required to re-measure the sample based on the current position of the sample determined to be remeasured, and
- the time required to re-measure the sample is the time necessary for the transporting device to transport the sample from the current position to the measuring unit.
6 more elements
An analyzing method executable by an analyzer comprising a transporting device for transporting a sample, and a plurality of measuring units, each measuring unit measuring a sample transported by the transporting device, the analyzing method comprising steps of:
- obtaining a determination result representing whether the sample requires remeasurement based on the measurement result by a predetermined measuring unit among the plurality of measuring units;
- obtaining, for each of the plurality of the measuring units, the time required to re-measure the sample determined to be remeasured based on the current position of the sample;
- selecting, from among the plurality of measuring units, the measuring unit with the shortest time required to re-measure the sample as the measuring unit for remeasuring the sample;
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- controlling the transporting device so as to transport the sample determined to be remeasured to the selected measuring unit,
- wherein the time required to re-measure the sample is the time necessary for the transporting device to transport the sample from the current position to the measuring unit.
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An analyzing apparatus comprising:
- a transporting device for transporting a sample;
- a plurality of measuring units, each measuring unit measuring a sample transported by the transporting device, wherein the plurality of measuring units comprises three or more measuring units;
- a determination result obtainer for obtaining a determination result representing whether a sample requires remeasurement based on a measurement result by a predetermined measuring unit among the plurality of measuring units;
- a display unit configured to display a setting screen which is configured to selectively designate one measuring unit for remeasuring among the plurality of measuring units, wherein the display unit is further configured to receive a designation that any one of the other measuring units different from the predetermined measuring unit, which has initially measured the sample determined to be remeasured, remeasures the sample;
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- a transport controller for controlling the transporting device so as to transport the sample determined to be remeasured to the one measuring unit, wherein the transport controller:
- selects a measuring unit for remeasuring the sample from the other measuring units under predetermined condition, and controls the transport device so that the sample determined to be remeasured is transported to the selected measuring unit, when the display unit has received the designation that any one of the other measuring units different from the predetermined measuring unit remeasure the sample;
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- obtains the number of samples transported to the respective measuring units, and selects the measuring unit with the fewest number of the samples as the measuring unit for remeasuring the sample.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.