Sysmex Corporation

Nobuhiro Kitagawa

Takashi Yamato

Masanori Imazu

Takaaki Nagai

Yuichi Hamada

Hiroo Tatsutani

Shuhei Kaneko

Tomoyuki Asahara

Hiroki Koike

Norimasa Yamamoto

Daisuke Nakano

Hironori Kobayashi

Kyozo Fujita

Hironori Katsumi

Kazuya Fukuda

Toshiyuki Ozawa

Tsuyoshi Fukuzaki

Masayuki Ikeda

Yoshihiko Kitawaki

Fumie Shibata

Yuichiro Ohmae

Naohiko Matsuo

Koichi Okubo

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Nobuyoshi Yamakawa

Takamichi Naito

Masahiko Oguro

Akio Toyoda

Hiroyuki Fujino

Nobuyasu Hori

Sayuri Tomoda

Kenichiro Suzuki

Satoshi Iguchi

Kei Takai

Jianyin Lu

Kozo Fujii

Shuji Kawaguchi

Kosuke Jitsuhara

Yoshinobu Miura

Michitaka Notoya

Shuji Yamashita

Disclosed is a liquid sending method using a sample processing chip having a flow path into which a plurality of liquids flow, and the method includes: sending, into the flow path, a first liquid held in a liquid holding portion provided in the sample processing chip by applying pressure to the liquid holding portion; sending, into the flow path, a second liquid in a storage portion provided in a liquid sending device connected to the sample processing chip, through an injection hole provided in the sample processing chip, by applying pressure to the storage portion; and forming, in the flow path, a fluid containing the first liquid having been sent from the liquid holding portion, and the second liquid having been sent through the injection hole.

Liquid sending method using sample processing chip and liquid sending device for sample processing chip

A nucleic acid analyzer according to one or more embodiments may include a container setting part that sets a second container, a rotation drive part that rotates the container setting part by applying a driving force to a surface of the container setting part, to supply the extraction liquid injected through the injection port to the storages through the flow path by a centrifugal force. A first temperature adjustment part that adjusts a temperature of the second container provided in the container setting part, such that a nucleic acid amplification reaction occurs in the storages, and a detector that detects a nucleic acid amplification reaction which occurs in the storages with the second container provided in the container setting part interposed between the first temperature adjustment part and the detector in a vertical direction.

Nucleic acid analyzer and nucleic acid analyzing method

A nucleic acid analyzer includes a first container setting part that sets a first container including reagent storages which store reagents for nucleic acid extraction such that the reagent storages are provided along an X-axis extending in a longitudinal direction of the first container; a dispensing unit that transfers, along the-X axis from the first container, extraction liquid containing nucleic acids extracted in the first container using the reagents for nucleic acid extraction; a second container setting part that is provided along the X-axis and sets a second container, the second container including an injection port through which the extraction liquid transferred by the dispensing unit is injected, storages that store reagents for amplifying the nucleic acids in the extraction liquid, and a flow path that connects the injection port and the storages; and a detector that detects a nucleic acid amplification reaction, which occurs in the storages.

Disclosed is an analysis method for detecting and analyzing light from a sample prepared so as to emit light in accordance with an amount of a test substance, the analysis method including taking an image of a storage member configured to store the sample therein; switching a state of a reflector to a state in which light from the sample is reflected toward a light detection unit and detecting light from the sample by the light detection unit; and outputting an analysis result of the sample on the basis of a light amount detected by the light detection unit.

Analysis method and analyzer

An analysis device for particle analysis, configured in such a manner that a reagent container is set in the device by inserting the reagent container from a side surface of the device toward the inside thereof, the reagent container having, near the forward end thereof, a suction pipe entrance portion into which a suction pipe can enter. The analysis device is provided with: a reagent container holding portion which holds the reagent container inserted from the suction pipe entrance portion side; and the suction pipe which enters, from above, the suction pipe entrance portion of the reagent container held by the reagent container holding portion and which sucks a reagent within the reagent container. The reagent container holding portion includes a guide member for guiding the insertion of the reagent container, which is inserted from the suction pipe entrance portion side, into the reagent container holding portion.

Analysis device and reagent container

A sample processing apparatus including: a preprocessing unit for performing predetermined preprocessing on a sample container; a transporting unit for transporting the sample container on which the preprocessing unit has performed the predetermined preprocessing; a sample processing unit for processing a sample contained in the sample container transported by the transporting unit; a plurality of container collection units for collecting respective sample containers transported by the transporting unit; and a collection controller for controlling, according to a result of the predetermined preprocessing by the preprocessing unit, at least one of the transporting unit and the plurality of container collection units such that the sample container transported by the transporting unit is collected in one of the plurality of container collection units.

Sample processing apparatus with sample feeding unit

A transport apparatus includes: a first transport line configured to transport a rack downstream along the transporting route; a second transport line configured to transport the rack upstream along the transporting route; and a controller including a processor and a memory that stores programs executable by the processor to: determine where to transport a post-tested rack according to whether or not retesting is necessary on any sample held in the post-tested rack; and according to a determination, instruct the transport apparatus to transport the post-tested rack selectively (i) along the first transport line either back to first sample processing unit, where the rack has been tested, or to a second sample processing unit located downstream of the first sample processing unit, or (ii) along the second transport line back from the first sample processing unit.

Sample processing apparatus, transport apparatus and non-transitory storage medium

A rack transporting apparatus including: a first transport path for transporting a sample rack to the sample processing unit; a second transport path for transporting the sample rack, without passing through the sample processing unit, in the same direction as a transport direction of the sample rack by the first transport path; a third transport path for transporting the sample rack in the opposite direction of the transport direction by the first transport path and the second transport path; a first rack transferring mechanism for transferring the sample rack from the second transport path to the first transport path through a first holding region being capable of holding the sample rack; and a second rack transferring mechanism for transferring the sample rack from the first transport path to the second transport path or the third transport path through a second holding region being capable of holding the sample rack.

Rack transporting apparatus and sample processing apparatus

Each of a first measurement unit and a second measurement unit (sample analyzer) includes: a reagent storage section in which a plurality of holder parts are arranged side by side, each of the holder parts including a setting part in which a reagent container having an RFID tag attached thereto is set, and an antenna part which transmits/receives a radio wave to/from the RFID tag of the reagent container set in the setting part; and a left face part and a right face part which block a radio wave communication path between the antenna part of one of the holder parts and the RFID tag of the reagent container set in another one, of the holder parts, adjacent to the one of the holder parts.

Sample analyzer

A rack collecting unit including: a transport path capable of transporting a sample rack in a first direction; a transport path capable of transporting the sample rack in a second direction opposite to the first direction; a storing section for storing therein the sample rack; and a transferring section for transferring the sample rack carried onto the transport paths to the storing section.

Rack collecting unit and sample processing apparatus

A blood cell counter comprises a stirrer which stirs a whole blood sample in a sample container by moving the sample container, an aspirator which aspirates the whole blood sample by penetrating a lid of the sample container with an aspiration tube after stirring by the stirrer, a detector which counts the blood cells in the whole blood sample aspirated by the aspirator, and a force applying member which applies a force to the sample container in an upright state after stirring by the stirrer so as to remove the whole blood sample from the lid of the sample container.

Blood cell counter and cell counting method

A specimen analyzing apparatus comprising: a detector for detecting component information regarding a component in a specimen contained in each of analyzing containers, the analyzing containers comprising first and second analyzing containers; an analyzing part for analyzing the component information detected by the detector; a transporting device for transporting specimen containers each containing a specimen, the specimen containers comprising first and second specimen containers; an operation mode selector for selecting one of a first operation mode and a second operation mode; a first supplying device for supplying the specimen of a first amount; a second supplying device for supplying the specimen of a second amount greater than the first amount; and a supply controller for controlling the first and second supplying devices in accordance with an operation mode selected by the operation mode selector, is disclosed. A specimen analyzing method is also disclosed.

Specimen analyzing apparatus and specimen analyzing method

A sample analyzer for analyzing a measurement sample prepared by a sample and a reagent is disclosed. The sample analyzer includes a rotatable first holding section for holding a first reagent container containing a first reagent and a second reagent container containing a second reagent circularly, a rotatable second holding section for holding a third reagent container containing a third reagent and a fourth reagent container containing a fourth reagent circularly, the second holding section being arranged concentrically relative to the first holding section, a dispenser for dispensing a reagent selected from the first to fourth reagents into a measurement sample container for preparing a measurement sample, and a controller. The controller configured to perform operations including receiving an replacement instruction for replacement of the second reagent container, and in response to receiving the instruction for replacement of the second reagent container, if a next reagent to be dispensed is the first reagent and a type of the first reagent is same as a type of the third reagent, controlling the dispenser so as to dispense the third reagent without dispensing the first reagent.

Sample analyzer and sample analyzing method

There is provided a sample processing apparatus capable of detecting the push-up type sample container including a recess on the outer side of the bottom portion of the container and performing an appropriate sample processing while alleviating the load of the user with a simple configuration.

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Akashi, Japan

Nobuhiro Kitagawa