Automatic Analyzer
The automatic analyzer includes a control unit provided with a determination unit which determines requirement or non-requirement of the calibration executed to the loaded reagent when the reagent ID reader identifies the reagent, a request generation unit which makes a notice of a standard solution necessary for the calibration when the determination unit determines requirement of the calibration, and generates a calibration request when loading of the standard solution is detected, and a planning unit which makes a plan of the carry-in and the calibration to execute the calibration as required immediately after the carry-in of the reagent into the reagent disc. This makes it possible to lessen the process to be performed by the user until the reagent is made available for measurement of the patient specimen.
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8 . An automatic analyzer having a specimen and a reagent respectively dispensed, and reacted in a reaction vessel to measure a reaction liquid, comprising:
a reagent disc on which a plurality of reagents are mountable;
a reagent loader which executes a carry-in of the reagent into the reagent disc;
a first information acquisition unit which reads information of the reagent loaded in the automatic analyzer;
an inlet which accommodates a standard solution necessary for calibrating the specimen and the reagent;
a second information acquisition unit which reads information of the standard solution necessary for calibrating the reagent loaded from the inlet immediately after loading the reagent;
a buffer which holds the plurality of specimens and the plurality of standard solutions, which have been loaded on stand-by, and is capable of changing an order of dispensing the specimens; and
a control unit including a determination unit which determines requirement or non-requirement of the calibration of the loaded reagent when the first information acquisition unit identifies the reagent, a request generation unit which makes a notice of the standard solution when the determination unit determines the requirement of the calibration, and generates a calibration request when the second information acquisition unit detects loading of the standard solution, and a planning unit which makes a plan to preferentially execute the carry-in of the reagent requiring calibration into the reagent disc, and the calibration to the reagent immediately after the carry-in, and to execute the carry-in of other reagents requiring no calibration into the reagent disc after the calibration.
9 . The automatic analyzer according to claim 8 , wherein when the information acquisition unit identifies the reagent, the planning unit of the control unit suspends a plan for dispensing the specimen, and makes a plan for executing the carry-in of the reagent into the reagent disc and the calibration prior to the suspended plan for dispensing the specimen.
10 . The automatic analyzer according to claim 9 , further comprising a display unit which displays information of the necessary standard solution for notifying a user of the standard solution.
11 . The automatic analyzer according to claim 8 , further comprising a selection unit for selecting a timing at which dispensation of the specimen is stopped for the carry-in of the reagent into the reagent disc.
12 . The automatic analyzer according to claim 8 , further comprising a selection unit for selecting execution or non-execution of the preferential carry-in and calibration of the reagent requiring the calibration.
13 . The automatic analyzer according to claim 8 , wherein the first information acquisition unit is disposed outside the reagent disc instead of being disposed inside the reagent disc.