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Apparatus and method for measuring reaction result of samples on biosensor

US7678261B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 4, 2002
Grant dateMar 16, 2010
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Expiry dateMar 12, 2025

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N27/3273
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for determining whether or not a biosensor comprising two working electrodes and one reference electrode is well manufactured, and for rapidly and accurately quantifying a specific substance contained in a biological sample. The method comprises the steps of: sequentially supplying the respective working electrodes with power supply voltage; sequentially detecting the amounts of current flowing in the respective working electrodes by virtue of the supplied power supply voltage; re-supplying the two working electrodes with power supply voltage after a predetermined time to redetect the amounts of current flowing in the respective working electrodes; reading concentrations corresponding to the amounts of current detected from a memory, and calculating an average value from the read concentrations; and checking whether or not the concentrations read from memory are within a predetermined critical range to display an error message or the calculated average value.

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