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公开(公告)号:US20190195905A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-27
申请号:US16232104
申请日:2018-12-26
发明人: Yukio IWASAKI , Satoshi OUCHI , Eiji MITSUI , Junichi MATSUOKA , Takehiro HASEGAWA , Yukihiko KITANO
CPC分类号: G01N35/1002 , B01L3/021 , B01L3/0275 , G01N35/0099
摘要: A dispensing method executed in a robot system including a pipette, a tip, a container, a liquid in the container, and a robot including a robot arm, an end effector, and a robot controller that controls the robot arm and the end effector to perform operations on the pipette and the tip, includes: making the end effector hold the pipette and the tip attached to the pipette; dipping at least a point of the tip attached to the pipette in the liquid and aspirating the liquid into the tip; bringing an outer surface of the tip attached to the pipette into contact with a part of the container, wherein the part of the container is at least one of an edge of an opening and an inside surface; and pulling the pipette and the tip attached to the pipette out of the container through the opening.
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公开(公告)号:US20190195857A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-27
申请号:US16226704
申请日:2018-12-20
发明人: Yukio IWASAKI , Satoshi OUCHI , Eiji MITSUI , Junichi MATSUOKA , Takehiro HASEGAWA , Yukihiko KITANO
IPC分类号: G01N33/487 , G01N33/49 , G01N21/90 , G01N21/94
CPC分类号: G01N33/48778 , G01N21/90 , G01N21/94 , G01N33/49
摘要: A dispensing apparatus that dispenses a sample into a well of a microplate, including a light emitter that emits light to the well, a light receiver that receives light emitted by the light emitter and returned from the well; and a control unit that determines whether foreign matter is present in the well based on information on the light received by the light receiver.
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公开(公告)号:US20190195901A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-27
申请号:US16228946
申请日:2018-12-21
发明人: Yukio IWASAKI , Satoshi OUCHI , Eiji MITSUI , Junichi MATSUOKA , Hiroya KIRIMURA , Yukihiko KITANO
CPC分类号: G01N35/0099 , G01N35/1011 , G01N2035/103
摘要: A dispensing robot of an assay robot system includes a first contact surface oriented in a downward direction or an obliquely downward direction in a vertical direction and dispenses when the dispensing robot operates a pipette that allows a tip to be attached to a lower end of the pipette and the attached tip to be detached by pressing a tip ejector, the dispensing robot comprising: a robot arm having a hand to hold a pipette holding piece attached thereto; and a controller controls the robot arm such that the robot arm holds the pipette with the tip attached thereto by causing the hand to hold the pipette holding piece and that the robot arm is elevated and the tip ejector is pressed by bringing an upper end portion of the tip ejector of the held pipette into contact with the first contact surface from the downward direction.
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公开(公告)号:US20190193272A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-27
申请号:US16226906
申请日:2018-12-20
发明人: Yukio IWASAKI , Satoshi OUCHI , Eiji MITSUI , Junichi MATSUOKA , Takehiro HASEGAWA , Yukihiko KITANO
CPC分类号: B25J11/005 , B01L3/0275 , B01L3/0286 , B23P19/04 , G01N35/0099 , G01N35/1002 , G01N2035/103
摘要: A method of attaching a tip to a pipette, which is executed in a robot system, includes: making an end effector of a robot hold a pipette; bringing a vicinity portion of a distal end of the pipette into contact with or close to an edge of an opening formed in a base of a tip while tilting an axis direction of the pipette by a predetermined angle with respect to an axis direction of the tip; attaching the tip to the pipette by inserting the distal end of the pipette and the vicinity portion of the distal end of the pipette into the tip while raising the pipette such that the axis direction of the pipette is aligned with the axis direction of the tip; and separating the pipette and the tip attached to the pipette from the predetermined spot.
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公开(公告)号:US20190193951A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-27
申请号:US16232508
申请日:2018-12-26
发明人: Yukio IWASAKI , Satoshi OUCHI , Eiji MITSUI , Junichi MATSUOKA , Yukihiko KITANO
CPC分类号: B65G47/905 , B25J9/1694 , B65G1/137
摘要: There is provided a rotary stocker which includes: a base; a rotary part provided on the base and rotatably connected to the base about a rotary axis extending in a vertical direction; a rotary drive device provided for rotating the rotary part; a plurality of shelves on which an object to be placed is placed, the plurality of shelves being fixed to the rotary part and being arranged in a circumferential direction about the rotary axis; and a sensor positioned outside the plurality of shelves in a radial direction of the rotary axis, the sensor capable of detecting whether the object to be placed is placed on each of the shelves positioned between the rotary axis and the sensor.
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公开(公告)号:US20190193878A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-27
申请号:US16230256
申请日:2018-12-21
发明人: Yukio IWASAKI , Satoshi OUCHI , Eiji MITSUI , Junichi MATSUOKA , Yukihiko KITANO
IPC分类号: B65B7/28
CPC分类号: B65B7/28
摘要: The present invention provides a lid closing device and a lid closing method, each of which does not require a high degree of accuracy when performing a lid closing operation. A holding portion moves such that a lid is located at a position above a container. Holding of the lid by the holding portion is released at the position above the container. The lid falls to cover the container. Thus, the lid closing operation is performed.
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公开(公告)号:US20190195902A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-27
申请号:US16232469
申请日:2018-12-26
发明人: Yukio IWASAKI , Satoshi OUCHI , Eiji MITSUI , Junichi MATSUOKA , Yukihiko KITANO
CPC分类号: G01N35/0099 , B01L9/02 , B01L2200/08 , B01L2200/16 , G01N35/1002
摘要: A reagent storage arranged at a predetermined position where predetermined work is able to be performed by a robot. The reagent storage cabinet includes: a container accommodating portion including an upper-surface opening portion and accommodating a reagent container; and a storage cabinet main body including a front-surface opening portion through which the container accommodating portion is put in and pulled out and a storage space communicating with the front-surface opening portion and accommodating the container accommodating portion. In an accommodated state that is a state where the container accommodating portion is accommodated in storage cabinet main body, the upper-surface opening portion of the container accommodating portion is sealed. In a pulled-out state that is a state where the container accommodating portion is pulled out from storage cabinet main body, the robot is able to directly access, from above, a reagent in the reagent container accommodated in the container accommodating portion.
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公开(公告)号:US20190193282A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-27
申请号:US16230562
申请日:2018-12-21
发明人: Yukio IWASAKI , Satoshi OUCHI , Eiji MITSUI , Junichi MATSUOKA , Yukihiko KITANO
CPC分类号: B25J15/0019 , B01L3/021 , B25J18/007
摘要: There is provided an end effector that is attached to a tip end of a robot arm for providing dispensation using a pipette and a chip attached to the pipette. The pipette includes a press button configured to draw a liquid into the chip or to discharge the liquid drawn into the chip from the chip as the press button is pressed and operated. The end effector includes a holding part for holding the pipette, a motor, and a swing part that presses and operates the press button as the swing part is driven and swung by the motor.
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公开(公告)号:US20180313861A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-01
申请号:US15964161
申请日:2018-04-27
发明人: Kei TAKAI , Takaaki NAGAI , Yukio IWASAKI , Satoshi OUCHI
CPC分类号: G01N35/0099 , B25J9/0087 , B25J9/0093 , G01N2035/00306 , G01N2035/00326
摘要: A transporting apparatus transports a container configured to be used by a sample analysis apparatus or a rack holding the container. The transporting apparatus may include a robotic arm that transports the container or the rack between a first sample analysis apparatus and a second sample analysis apparatus; and a base that supports the robotic arm.
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公开(公告)号:US20190302135A1
公开(公告)日:2019-10-03
申请号:US16367297
申请日:2019-03-28
发明人: Takashi YOSHIDA , Hiroaki INOKUCHI , Takehiro HASEGAWA , Chikako MURATA , Yukio IWASAKI , Satoshi OUCHI
摘要: A sample pretreatment apparatus includes: a plurality of sample pretreatment sections, each of which executes a sample pretreatment prior to a measurement; and a robotic arm including: an articulated arm member; and a hand attached to the articulated arm member. The plurality of sample pretreatment sections includes a sample dispenser that dispenses a sample in a first sample container into a second sample container. For a first measurement, the robotic arm holds the second sample container with the hand and transports the second sample container to a pretreatment group of the plurality of sample pretreatment sections, the pretreatment group including the sample dispenser. For a second measurement, the robotic arm holds the second sample container with the hand and transports the second sample container to another pretreatment group of the plurality of sample pretreatment sections, the another pretreatment group including the sample dispenser.
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