LABORATORY AUTOMATED SYSTEMS FOR TRANSPORTING SAMPLE RECEPTACLE CARRIERS

    公开(公告)号:US20240353438A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-24

    申请号:US18758097

    申请日:2024-06-28

    发明人: Gary LAIR

    摘要: A laboratory automated system includes a conveyor assembly, a dock that that is movable between first and second positions, a drive assembly for moving the dock between the first and second positons, and a diverter for diverting a sample receptacle carrier from the conveyor assembly to the dock. The dock includes a first carrier support portion having a planar surface for supporting the sample receptacle carrier as the dock moves between the first and second positions. The dock includes an upwardly extending second carrier support portion situated adjacent the first carrier support portion. The second carrier support portion has a contoured side surface. The dock includes one or more magnets fixedly contained within or disposed on the second carrier support portion to magnetically couple with a magnetic portion of the sample receptacle carrier.

    Automatic analysis device and automatic analysis system

    公开(公告)号:US12092649B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-17

    申请号:US15734312

    申请日:2019-05-21

    IPC分类号: G01N35/02 G01N35/10

    摘要: To save a space and to reduce a burden of a user due to an exchange work of a reagent having large capacitance.
    A reagent mounting mechanism (14) including a reagent mounting part (15) serving as an installation location of containers (9a, 9b, 9c, and 19) for holding a solution such as a reagent is provided in a side surface of an analysis unit (100) to be drawable. An RFID reader (10) for reading an RFID tag (13) installed in the containers (9a, 9b, 9c, and 19) is arranged in a position matching the RFID tag (13) when the containers (9a, 9b, 9c, and 19) are placed on the reagent mounting part (15) of the drawn reagent mounting mechanism (14).

    Detection method and detection device

    公开(公告)号:US12092560B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-17

    申请号:US17536437

    申请日:2021-11-29

    摘要: A detection method according to one or more embodiments may include transporting a rack holding a reaction vessel along a first axis toward a sample dispensing position, linearly moving the sample dispensing pipette above the rack along a second axis intersecting the first axis and dispensing a sample into the reaction vessel located at the sample dispensing position, transporting the rack along the first axis toward a reagent dispensing position; linearly moving a reagent dispensing pipette above the rack along a third axis intersecting the first axis, and dispensing a reagent into the reaction vessel located at the reagent dispensing position, and detecting a detection target in a measurement specimen prepared from the sample and the reagent.

    Sample measurement device and sample measurement method

    公开(公告)号:US12078648B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-03

    申请号:US16824198

    申请日:2020-03-19

    摘要: Disclosed is a sample measurement device comprising a first processing unit that performs a first measurement on a sample contained in a first container in a first cycle; a second processing unit that performs a second measurement on a sample contained in a second container in a second cycle different from the first cycle; and a relay section which is disposed between the first processing unit and the second processing unit and in which the second container is positioned, wherein the first processing unit performs a transferring operation of transferring the second container to the relay section, and the second processing unit performs a receiving operation of receiving the second container that has been transferred to the relay section from the relay section.

    Apparatus for transporting sample receptacle carriers

    公开(公告)号:US12072342B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-27

    申请号:US15828885

    申请日:2017-12-01

    发明人: Gary Lair

    摘要: A laboratory automated system can include a host conveyor assembly configured to transport a plurality of carriers and receptacles coupled thereto between at least a sample processing instrument and at least one assay instrument. The system includes an intermediate conveyor assembly configured to transport a plurality of carriers and receptacles coupled thereto from within sample processing instrument to the host conveyor assembly. The system also includes an intermediate conveyor assembly for each assay instrument configured to transport a plurality of carriers from host conveyor assembly to a respective processing position within the assay instrument. The intermediate conveyor assembly coupled to the assay instrument can include a buffer conveyor subassembly configured to receive carriers from the host conveyor assembly, and a spur conveyor assembly configured to transport a carrier to the processing position of the assay instrument.