IP Library Granted Patent US 11,041,870
Granted Patent B2
US 11,041,870 · App. 15/753,856 · Granted Jun 22, 2021

Automatic analysis device

Inventors: Satoshi Yokotsuka (Tokyo, JP); Toshiharu Suzuki (Tokyo, JP); Rira Okashita (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
G01N35/025G01N35/00732G01N35/04G01N35/1002B01J19/00B01L3/00G01N1/10G01N35/00G01N35/00663G01N35/02G01N2035/0091G01N2035/00673G01N2035/00752G01N2035/00792G01N2035/00811G01N2035/0443G01N2035/0444G01N2035/0465G01N2035/0498
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Patent No.
US 11,041,870
App. No.
15/753,856
Granted
Jun 22, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

An automated analysis device includes a reagent disc on which a plurality of reagent containers are loaded; a reagent loader that loads a reagent from the outside onto the reagent disc and carries a reagent to the outside; a display unit that displays the reagents in the plurality of reagent containers, so as to be paired with corresponding analysis items for which the reagents are used; and a control unit that causes the reagent loader to simultaneously carry, to the outside of the reagent disc, a reagent which is selected, on the display unit, by an operation device used for an operation input from an operator instructing the reagent loader to take out the reagent and simultaneously carry a reagent which is to be used for a different analysis item to be performed simultaneously with the analysis item for the selected reagent.

Claims (22)

1. An automatic analysis device comprising:

a reagent disc on which a plurality of reagent containers are loaded, the plurality of reagent containers holding a plurality of reagents;

at least one reagent set is formed as a combination of reagents among the plurality of reagents: wherein the at least one reagent set comprises:

a first reagent for a first analysis item; and

a second reagent for a second analysis item: wherein

the first analysis item and the second analysis item are simultaneously analyzed;

an incubator having a plurality of reaction vessels arranged, the reaction vessels allowing a specimen and a reagent from the plurality of reagents to be reacted;

a sample dispensation mechanism for dispensing the specimen into the reaction vessels arranged in the incubator;

a reagent dispensation mechanism for dispensing a reagent from the plurality of reagents loaded in the reagent disc into one of the reaction vessels loaded in the incubator;

a reagent loader for loading the plurality of reagent containers from outside of the reagent disc into the reagent disc, and unloading the plurality of reagent containers to the outside of the reagent disc;

a display unit; and

a control unit configured to:

control the display unit to display a reagent set information screen that allows selection and display of the at least one reagent set collectively;

control the reagent loader to perform simultaneous unloading of the at least one reagent set that is selected on the reagent set information screen;

control the display unit to display a switch button on the reagent set information screen that switches between a first state, based on the switch button not being selected, in which information about all of a plurality of reagent sets registered to be loaded is displayed, and a second state, based on the switch button being selected, in which information about only the plurality of reagent sets registered and loaded in the reagent disc is displayed.

2. The automatic analysis device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the display unit is configured to display on the reagent set information screen at least two of a reagent container position number of the reagent disc, an identification number for identifying the reagent held in the reagent container positioned at the reagent container position number, and a residual volume/effective date of the reagent held in the reagent container.

3. The automatic analysis device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the display unit is configured to display on the reagent set information screen at least two of a name of the reagent, reagent identification information, a residual volume, an effective date, a calibration result, a calibration effective date, a reagent container position number, and device loading/unloading information.

4. The automatic analysis device according to claim 1 , further comprising a storage unit for storing a reagent identification information file derived from accumulation of reagent identification information.

5. The automatic analysis device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the switch button is configured to display, based on the switch button not being selected, reagents having a same reagent identification number as reagents loaded in the reagent disc.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 14, 2020
From: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 052398/0249 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 22, 2018
From: YOKOTSUKA, SATOSHI; SUZUKI, TOSHIHARU; OKASHITA, RIRA
To: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 044996/0782 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2015-168056 · Aug 27, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
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