Hitachi High-Tech Corporation

Megumi Kato

Masashi Akutsu

Masashi Fukaya

Misato Koike

An automatic analysis apparatus includes: an automatic analysis unitwhich includes a dispensing mechanism including a probe which is configured to dispense a sample or a reagent into a reaction container, a cleaning mechanism; and a control unit. The control unit includes a storage unitconfigured to store count values which indicate weightings to contamination and are set in advance in accordance with a plurality of analysis conditions, a processing unitconfigured to obtain a cumulative count for each dispensing of the sample or the reagent on the basis of the stored count values and to determine whether the obtained cumulative count exceeds a threshold value set in advance, and an instruction unitconfigured to instruct an operation of the cleaning mechanism to clean the probe when a result of determination is that the cumulative count exceeds the threshold value.

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Tokyo, Japan

Megumi Kato