Sysmex Corporation

Hidenari Takaoka

Takaaki Nagai

Noriyoshi Yoshida

Takashi Yoshida

Toshikatsu Fukuju

Shuhei Kaneko

Masanori Nakaya

Nobuyoshi Yamakawa

Toshio Watanabe

A sample analyzer includes a liquid aspirator to be stuck into the closed container for aspirating a sample from a closed container; a preparing section for preparing an analysis sample using the aspirated sample; and an analyzing section for analyzing the prepared analysis sample; the liquid aspirator including an elongated pipe, the pipe having a liquid flow path extending therein and a plurality of communicating sections provided in an outer surface thereof, at least one of the communicating sections communicating between an inside and an outside of the container when the pipe is stuck into the container.

Sample analyzer and its components

An apparatus wherein assayed specimens can be transferred in any order to a specimen-container housing rack automatically and very efficiently, without any restrictions whatsoever on the order in which the specimen containers are placed in the specimen-container racks and assayed, even if different types of specimen vessel are present. This is accomplished in a specimen-container transfer apparatus having: a conveyor unit for transporting specimen-container racks; a specimen-container ID reader for reading the specimen-container identification numbers of the specimen-container racks transported by the conveyor unit; a specimen-container housing-rack table for setting up specimen-container housing racks for housing specimen containers; a specimen-container transfer mechanism for taking specimen containers out of a specimen-container rack and putting them in a specimen-container housing rack; and a control unit for controlling the order in which the specimen containers are put into the specimen-container housing rack.

Specimen-container transfer apparatus

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Kobe, Japan

Hidenari Takaoka