US 11,994,527 B2
Sample measuring apparatus and method of circulating air in reagent storage
Yutaka Kawamoto, Kobe (JP); Tomohiro Kuroiwa, Kobe (JP); and Shingo Kaida, Kobe (JP)
Assigned to SYSMEX CORPORATION, Kobe (JP)
Filed by SYSMEX CORPORATION, Kobe (JP)
Filed on Jul. 24, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/937,651.
Application 16/937,651 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2018/045090, filed on Dec. 7, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-010312 (JP), filed on Jan. 25, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0355712 A1, Nov. 12, 2020
Int. Cl. G01N 35/02 (2006.01); B01L 7/00 (2006.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 35/025 (2013.01) [B01L 7/00 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00356 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00445 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sample measuring apparatus comprising:
a measuring unit that measures a sample by using a reagent stored in a reagent container;
a reagent storage that includes a case defining an inner space that stores the reagent container;
a reagent container holder arranged in the reagent storage and that holds the reagent container;
a rotation table that is arranged in the inner space of the reagent storage and that supports the reagent container holder;
a fin that is arranged in the inner space of the reagent storage and is provided as attached to an underside of the rotation table and that circulates air in the reagent storage; and
a driving unit including a motor that drives the rotation table provided with the fin to rotate so as to circulate, by the fin, the air in the reagent storage, wherein
the rotation table includes multiple openings and is provided with the fin such that the air passes through the multiple openings between a region below the rotation table and a region above the rotation table.