Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatic analyzer and automatic analysis method
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Application No.: US16466215Application Date: 2017-11-07
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Publication No.: US11353473B2Publication Date: 2022-06-07
- Inventor: Takumi Ito , Shinji Azuma , Masashi Fukaya
- Applicant: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: JPJP2016-240844 20161213
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/040024 WO 20171107
- International Announcement: WO2018/110146 WO 20180621
- Main IPC: G01N35/10
- IPC: G01N35/10 ; G01N21/78 ; G01N35/04

Abstract:
Provided is a technique related to an automatic analyzer and capable of ensuring cleaning performance of a reaction container by a cleaning process including a tip suction step, and preventing decrease in analysis accuracy or improving the analysis accuracy. The automatic analyzer includes a control apparatus, a block suction mechanism that moves a suction nozzle and a suction block for suctioning a liquid in the reaction container up and down and suctions the liquid, and a block cleaning mechanism for cleaning the suction block. After receiving an analysis request, the control apparatus causes, in a tip suction step that is provided before an analysis step and is a last step of a cleaning step, both suction of the liquid by the block suction mechanism and cleaning of the suction block by the block cleaning mechanism to be performed in a first step, and then only the suction of the liquid by the block suction mechanism to be performed in a second step including one or more cycles; and causes the analysis step to be performed using the reaction container in which the second step is performed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200064364A1 Automatic Analyzer and Automatic Analysis Method Public/Granted day:2020-02-27
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