US 12,186,758 B2
Automated analysis device
Akihiro Yasui, Tokyo (JP); Akihisa Makino, Tokyo (JP); Masashi Akutsu, Tokyo (JP); Hiroyuki Mishima, Tokyo (JP); and Yoshihiro Suzuki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/374,947.
Application 18/374,947 is a continuation of application No. 17/555,764, filed on Dec. 20, 2021, granted, now 11,826,759.
Application 17/555,764 is a continuation of application No. 16/918,858, filed on Jul. 1, 2020, granted, now 11,235,334, issued on Feb. 1, 2022.
Application 16/918,858 is a continuation of application No. 16/487,029, granted, now 10,717,087, issued on Jul. 21, 2020, previously published as PCT/JP2018/008955, filed on Mar. 8, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-048206 (JP), filed on Mar. 14, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2024/0017263 A1, Jan. 18, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B01L 9/00 (2006.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01); G01N 35/02 (2006.01); G01N 35/10 (2006.01)
CPC B01L 9/00 (2013.01) [B01L 13/02 (2019.08); G01N 35/00584 (2013.01); G01N 35/026 (2013.01); G01N 35/1002 (2013.01); G01N 35/1004 (2013.01); B01L 2200/143 (2013.01); B01L 2200/16 (2013.01); B01L 2200/18 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0663 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0803 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
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1. An analysis method for an automatic analysis device which a reaction disk which accommodates a plurality of reaction vessels capable of accommodating a dispensed specimen and reagent such that the reaction vessels are spaced apart from each other at predetermined intervals circumferentially, the analysis method comprising:
controlling a drive of the reaction disk to cause the reaction vessels to move in one cycle by an amount A in a circumferential direction such that N and A are mutually prime, B and C are mutually prime, and N is a total number of reaction vessels accommodated in the reaction disk, wherein the reaction disk moves through C (where C>1) rotations an amount equivalent to one reaction vessel after B (where B>2) cycles, the number of reaction vessels moved in one cycle is A (where N>A>N/B+1), the reaction vessel on the reaction disk is divided into B places based on a stop position of an arbitrary one of the plurality of reaction vessels; and
controlling the drive of the reaction disk to cause the reaction vessels to move from the one reaction vessel in the first cycle to the B cycle to an adjacent position respectively, so that the reaction vessels move by A in the circumferential direction in one cycle so that the reaction vessels are arranged adjacent to each other in order.