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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2017
Hitachi High-technologies Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Takeshi Ishida, Tokyo, JP;
Sakuichiro Adachi, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiro Yamashita, Tokyo, JP;
Shunichirou Nobuki, Tokyo, JP;
Hisashi Yabutani, Tokyo, JP;
Isao Yamazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Michaela Windfuhr, Iffeldorf, DE;
Bernhard Hauptmann, Penzberg, DE;
Simon Kuester, Krailling, DE;
Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
An automatic analyzer is equipped with a sterilization mechanism removably attached to an opening of a container that holds a reagent and having an ultraviolet light generation section that radiates ultraviolet light; a suction nozzle removably attached, together with the sterilization mechanism, to the opening of the container; an analysis section adding the reagent drawn in by suction from the container via the suction nozzle to the reagent, and executing an analysis operation; and a control section exercising variable control over an irradiation light intensity of the ultraviolet light generated by the ultraviolet light generation section.