US 9,068,956 B2Granted

Specimen analyzing apparatus and specimen analyzing method

AssigneeSysmex Corporation

InventorsKazuya Fukuda, Hiroki Koike, Hironori Katsumi, Takashi Yamato, Masayuki Ikeda, Tsuyoshi Fukuzaki, Daisuke Nakano, Masanori Imazu, Nobuhiro Kitagawa

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Abstract

A specimen analyzing apparatus comprising: a detector for detecting component information regarding a component in a specimen contained in each of analyzing containers, the analyzing containers comprising first and second analyzing containers; an analyzing part for analyzing the component information detected by the detector; a transporting device for transporting specimen containers each containing a specimen, the specimen containers comprising first and second specimen containers; an operation mode selector for selecting one of a first operation mode and a second operation mode; a first supplying device for supplying the specimen of a first amount; a second supplying device for supplying the specimen of a second amount greater than the first amount; and a supply controller for controlling the first and second supplying devices in accordance with an operation mode selected by the operation mode selector, is disclosed. A specimen analyzing method is also disclosed.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A specimen analyzing apparatus comprising:

an analyzing unit for analyzing a specimen contained in an analyzing container,
a transporting device for transporting specimen containers each containing a specimen;
a first aspirating unit, which comprises a liquid aspirating tube, for aspirating a specimen from a specimen container;
a second aspirating unit, which comprises a liquid aspirating tube formed so as to be able to penetrate through a lid of a specimen container, for aspirating a specimen from a specimen container;
a controller controlling the first aspirating unit and the second aspirating unit, wherein
in a first aspirating mode, the controller controls the first aspirating unit to dispense a first amount of specimen from a specimen container to an analyzing container;
in a second aspirating mode, the controller controls the second aspirating unit to dispense a second amount of specimen from a specimen container to a reserve container, and the controller controls the first aspirating unit to dispense a third amount of specimen into the analyzing container from the reserve container.

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Facts

Application: 13/562,992Filed 31 Jul 2012 · continuation
Priority: JP 2008-28158531 Oct 2008
Published: US 2012/0294763 A122 Nov 2012
Granted: 30 Jun 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

G01N 35/1065
Devices for transferring samples or any liquids to, in, or from, the analysis apparatus, e.g. suction devices, injection devices: multiple…
G01N 35/0092
Control arrangements for automatic analysers: scheduling
G01N 35/025
Using a plurality of sample containers moved by a conveyor system past one or more treatment or analysis stations: having a carousel or turntable…
G01N 35/026
Using a plurality of sample containers moved by a conveyor system past one or more treatment or analysis stations: having blocks or racks of…

Family

Application12/607,739Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Oct 2009
US 2012/0294763 A1Pre-grant publication · published 22 Nov 2012
US 8,234,941 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2010/0107744 A1Published application
US 9,068,956 B2This patent

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