US 11,726,028 B2
Container rack, specimen analysis device, and specimen analysis method
Kenji Yoshimura, Kobe (JP); and Masaki Shiba, Kobe (JP)
Assigned to SYSMEX CORPORATION, Hyogo (JP)
Filed by SYSMEX CORPORATION, Kobe (JP)
Filed on Feb. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/786,251.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-030136 (JP), filed on Feb. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0271567 A1, Aug. 27, 2020
Int. Cl. B01L 9/06 (2006.01); G01N 21/11 (2006.01); G01N 35/02 (2006.01); G01N 35/04 (2006.01); G01N 1/38 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 21/11 (2013.01) [G01N 35/025 (2013.01); G01N 35/04 (2013.01); G01N 1/38 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A container rack configured to hold a plurality of containers, the container rack configured to be installed in a rack installation portion of a specimen analysis device, the container rack comprising:
a holding portion including a plurality of holding holes through which body portions of the containers pass and which hold head portions of the containers;
a leg portion configured to support the holding portion, the leg portion provided from the holding portion to below the containers held in the holding holes,
wherein the leg portion includes side walls defining a surrounding periphery of a lower space of the holding portion such that the containers in the holding holes extend into the lower space and are exposed in a bottom view,
wherein a side wall included among the side walls includes a notch, the notch in the side wall being defined by an upwardly recessed portion of the side wall, and
wherein an arrangement of the holding holes in the holding portion coincide with an arrangement of insertion holes included in the rack installation portion of the specimen analysis device such that movement of the containers held in the holding holes is restricted by the rack installation portion.