US 12,241,905 B2
Automatic analysis device and automatic analysis method
Kohei Hiroki, Tokyo (JP); Akihiro Yasui, Tokyo (JP); and Takeshi Setomaru, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/295,151
Filed by Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 4, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/004088
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/183982, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-043392 (JP), filed on Mar. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0018867 A1, Jan. 20, 2022
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CPC G01N 35/04 (2013.01) [G01N 2035/0415 (2013.01); G01N 2035/0441 (2013.01); G01N 2035/0465 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automatic analysis device, comprising:
an analysis module for quantitatively or qualitatively analyzing specific components contained in a biological specimen, including a reaction disk, a reagent disk, a dispensing line that carries in a specimen rack in which one or more specimen containers storing a specimen to be analyzed are loaded, a specimen dispensing mechanism, a reagent dispensing mechanism, and a specimen identification device;
a rack transport module that transports the specimen rack; and
a controller programmed to control operations of the analysis module and the rack transport module, wherein
the rack transport module includes:
a rack supply part that supplies the specimen rack;
a rack accommodating part that accommodates the specimen rack;
a rack transport line that transports the specimen rack supplied from the rack supply part;
the dispensing line carrying in the specimen rack in which the one or more specimen containers storing a specimen to be analyzed are loaded to the analysis module; and
a rack rotor that transfers the specimen rack between the rack transport line and the dispensing line,
the rack supply part is configured such that the specimen rack is able to be loaded into the rack transport line using a rack tray on which a plurality of specimen racks are able to be loaded,
the rack accommodating part accommodates the specimen rack transported from the rack transport line and is able to be accommodated using the rack tray, and
the rack tray is a cantilever rack tray including a cantilever-shaped handle that allows an operator to additionally load a specimen rack from a front of the rack supply part.