Sysmex Corporation

Toshio Watanabe

Masanori Nakaya

Nobuyoshi Yamakawa

Yoshiyuki Tamura

Hidenari Takaoka

Mieko Asada

Smear preparing apparatuses for preparing a smear of a specimen on a glass slide are described that include a memory for storing smearing conditions in connection with pertinent information required for establishing the smearing condition; and a controller for retrieving one of the stored smearing conditions corresponding to the pertinent information of the specimen from the memory and for determining it as the smearing condition of the specimen. Methods of preparing sample smears on a glass slide are also described that include receiving condition identification data; storing smear preparing conditions correlated with the condition identification data; retrieving the smear preparing conditions correlated with the condition identification data; and applying the sample smear to the glass slide based on the smear preparing conditions.

Smear preparing apparatuses and methods of preparing sample smears

A computer for receiving first and second sample attribute information regarding attributes of a sample, for determining parameter identification information for identifying a smear control parameter on the basis of the first sample attribute information, for generating first and second instruction to make a smear preparing apparatus prepare a smear of a sample, the first instruction including the parameter identification information, and the second instruction including the second sample attribute information, for transmitting the first and second instruction to the smear preparing apparatus is disclosed.

Computer connected to a smear preparing apparatus

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.

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Oonojo, Japan

Toshio Watanabe