Automatic analyzer

US9429586B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation · JP
• Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Atsushi Watanabe · Yamanashi, JP
• Shigeki Matsubara · Hitachinaka, JP
• Kazuhiro Shimada · Hitachinaka, JP
• Kenji Teshigawara · Hitachinaka, JP
• Osamu Matsumoto · Rifu, JP
• Sylvia Rosenblatt · Penzberg, DE
• Peter Wolf · Wiesbaden, DE
• Fridl Lang · Tutzing, DE
• Roland Ihrig · Lampertheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 28, 2011
• Grant date: Aug 30, 2016
• Expiry date: Oct 3, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2035/0427
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automatic analyzer includes: first reagent storing means for storing a plurality of the reagent containers; second reagent storing means for storing a replacement reagent container in addition to the first reagent storing means; transfer means for transferring the reagent container from the second reagent storing means to the first reagent means; and a storing portion for storing the reagent container discharged from the second reagent storing means. The automatic analyzer includes control means for exercising control such that the information write means writes reagent information on the information recording medium immediately before the reagent container is transferred from the second reagent storing means to the first reagent storing means or immediately before the reagent container is discharged from the second reagent storing means to the storing portion.