US 12,130,300 B2
Sample measuring apparatus, reagent container, and method of measuring sample
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. 16/937,769.
Application 16/937,769 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2018/045089, filed on Dec. 7, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-010309 (JP), filed on Jan. 25, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0355713 A1, Nov. 12, 2020
Int. Cl. G01N 35/02 (2006.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01); G01N 35/04 (2006.01); G01N 35/10 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 35/025 (2013.01) [G01N 35/04 (2013.01); G01N 35/1002 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00356 (2013.01); G01N 2035/0443 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sample measuring apparatus comprising:
a reagent container holder that includes a plate-shaped member including through-holes and configured to hold reagent containers each storing a reagent such that the plate-shaped member suspends the reagent containers extending respectively through the through-holes with bottom surfaces of the reagent containers being exposed below from the through-holes, wherein the reagent container holder is rotatably supported about a rotation axis;
a cooling mechanism that is provided below the plate-shaped member and in a reagent storage area, the cooling mechanism spaced apart from and opposed to the exposed bottom surfaces of the reagent containers held by the reagent container holder to cool the exposed bottom surfaces of the reagent containers held by the reagent container holder; and
a measuring unit that measures a sample with the reagent of at least one of the reagent containers being mixed with the sample, wherein
the reagent containers are arranged in the reagent container holder such that 50% or more of a surface of each reagent container is exposed to the reagent storage area.