US 11,921,092 B2
Vial supply system and gas chromatography analysis system
Shori Kinoshita, Kyoto (JP); Shinichi Yuki, Kyoto (JP); Shingo Masuda, Kyoto (JP); Yuki Komori, Kyoto (JP); and Daiki Fukushima, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto (JP)
Filed by SHIMADZU CORPORATION, Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/510,672.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-190157 (JP), filed on Nov. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0155264 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. G01N 30/24 (2006.01); G01N 1/14 (2006.01); G01N 35/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 30/24 (2013.01) [G01N 1/14 (2013.01); G01N 35/1011 (2013.01); G06F 3/0412 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vial supply system comprising:
a sampler configured to supply a vial to a predetermined supply destination by a transport arm;
a management device communicatively connected to the sampler, the management device being configured to manage a supply operation of the vial by the sampler; and
a display device provided so as to be able to communicate with the management device,
wherein when a teaching mode for performing teaching for setting a position of the transport arm at the time when the transport arm of the sampler transports the vial to and from the supply destination is started, the management device is configured to cause the display device to display an operation to be performed by a user in the teaching,
wherein the display device is a touch panel,
wherein the teaching includes a panel operation process for moving the transport arm in a vertical direction by an operation of the user via the touch panel, and
wherein the management device is configured to cause the touch panel to display an up/down direction instruction button for instructing a direction of moving the transport arm in the panel operation process and cause the sampler to move the transport arm in a vertical direction by a distance corresponding to a time during which the up/down direction instruction button is being touched in a direction of the touched up/down direction instruction button when the user touches the up/down direction instruction button.