Hitachi-high-technologies Corporation

Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

F. Hoffmann-la Roche Ag

Yasunao Awata

Dietmar Kappelhoff

Kazuhiro Nakamura

Shigeki Matsubara

Toshihide Orihashi

Yoshimitsu Takagi

Hidetoshi Sugiyama

Kazuhiro Shimada

Hirokazu Iwamatsu

Satoshi Shibuya

Werner Döppen

When a problematic reagent is identified while operating an automatic analyzer, it is required to have a plurality of screens displayed, and it is difficult for inexperienced operators to identify a problematic position of a reagent. With the present invention, control information for reagents and a calibrator required for analysis with an automatic analyzer are displayed concurrently, so that all necessary information can be referred to one screen. In the automatic analyzer according to the present invention, screen switching as required in the conventional technology is not necessary, and improved operability and visibility are provided.

Automatic analyzer

An automatic analyzer includes a status table storing the status of each analysis module and reagent information identifying each reagent, the supply of which is exhausted, and allowing tracking of the status of each analysis module, etc. The automatic analyzer determines, based on the status table, whether and how it can continue current analysis, and stores the determination results in its instruction information table. The instruction information table stores analysis-unit or -module operating information and information to be supplied to the user or operator. The analysis-unit operating information includes instructions for the analysis modules to initiate an analysis in a normal manner, finish an analysis in a normal manner, omit a pre-analysis operation, omit a post-analysis operation, or stop sampling, etc. Further, the reagent information and the analysis module status are updated each time a reagent container is replaced by the operator.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yasunao Awata