US 9,958,468 B2Granted

Automatic analyzer

AssigneeHitachi High-Technologies Corporation

InventorsYoshihiro Yamashita, Toshiharu Suzuki, Takaaki Hagiwara, Kazunori Yamazawa

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Abstract

The present invention provides an automatic analyzer capable of reducing the time necessary for analysis processing by making various operations pertaining to the analysis processing more efficient. More specifically, the present invention is characterized in that, from among a plurality of ending operation items set as analysis ending operations to perform at the end of analysis operations for analyzing a sample under analysis, one or more ending operation items to be performed are selected, and on the basis of monitoring results of monitoring the status of an automatic analyzer during the period from the end of the analysis ending operations to the start of analysis preparation operations for preparing for the analysis operations, one or more preparation operation items to be performed are selected from among a plurality of preparation operation items set as analysis preparation operations.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A method for controlling an automatic analyzer, comprising the steps of:

selecting a mode, which is one of a normal mode for carrying out analysis preparation operation items, in an analysis preparation operation, which are set in advance, and a time-saving mode for carrying out fewer analysis preparation operation items than in the normal mode;
monitoring one or more conditions of the analyzer between a completion of a startup processing of the automatic analyzer and a start of an analysis preparation operation for preparing for an analysis operation and between a completion of an analysis-ending operation and the start of the analysis preparation operation for preparing for the analysis operation;
determining one or more analysis preparation operation items to be carried out from the analysis preparation operation items set as the analysis preparation operation based on the selected operation mode and on the monitoring result of the one or more conditions of the automatic analyzer;
and
performing the analysis preparation operation based on the determined one or more analysis preparation operation items.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/901,370Filed 25 Jul 2014
Priority: JP 2013-1668449 Aug 2013
Published: US 2016/0154016 A12 Jun 2016
Granted: 1 May 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G01N 35/0092
Control arrangements for automatic analysers: scheduling
G01N 35/00712
Quality control, including calibration or testing of components of the analyser: automatic status testing, e.g. at start-up or periodic
G01N 35/00871
Communications; Identification: communications between instruments or with remote terminals
G01N 2035/00643
Of instruments: detecting malfunctions in conveying systems