US 12,247,975 B2
Detection apparatus and detection method
Kazuyoshi Horii, Kobe (JP); Tomoyuki Nose, Kobe (JP); Takao Fujiwara, Kobe (JP); Sayuri Tomoda, Kobe (JP); Yusuke Miida, Kobe (JP); Yasunori Maekawa, Kobe (JP); and Noriaki Sasaki, Kobe (JP)
Assigned to Sysmex Corporation, Kobe (JP)
Filed by Sysmex Corporation, Kobe (JP)
Filed on Jan. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/162,443.
Application 17/162,443 is a continuation of application No. 15/637,957, filed on Jun. 29, 2017, granted, now 11,099,182.
Claims priority of application No. 2016-130097 (JP), filed on Jun. 30, 2016; and application No. 2016-179029 (JP), filed on Sep. 13, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0148905 A1, May 20, 2021
Int. Cl. G01N 33/543 (2006.01); B01L 3/00 (2006.01); B03C 1/28 (2006.01); G01N 21/69 (2006.01); G01N 21/76 (2006.01); G01N 33/58 (2006.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01); G01N 35/10 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 33/54326 (2013.01) [B01L 3/502761 (2013.01); B03C 1/284 (2013.01); G01N 21/69 (2013.01); G01N 21/76 (2013.01); G01N 33/582 (2013.01); G01N 35/00069 (2013.01); G01N 35/0098 (2013.01); G01N 35/10 (2013.01); B01L 2200/0668 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
forming, on a magnetic particle, a complex of a test substance and a labeling substance in a cartridge, the cartridge comprising a plurality of chambers and a channel connecting the chambers;
attracting the magnetic particle by a magnet;
transferring the magnetic particle between the chambers, the transferring comprising:
moving the magnet attracting the magnetic particle to move the magnetic particle between one of the chambers and the channel; and
rotating the cartridge in a circumferential direction to move the magnetic particle through the channel while the magnetic particle is attracted by the magnet, wherein the magnet is moved in a direction different from the circumferential direction.