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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2020
Hitachi High-tech Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hikaru Takizawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention realizes a medical material transport system that is low-cost, stable, and safe, the medical material transport system being such that even if a failure occurs in an individual specimen transport device, the failure does not extend to the system as a whole. Collection of a specimen is requested from a specimen collection request terminal, and a management unit () issues a reception commandfor the specimen. A dronethat has received the reception commandfor the specimen departs from a standby dockon the basis of the received information and flies to a specimen recovery location, and a specimen tray for placing the specimen is taken out from a specimen holder. A specimen container is contained in the specimen tray, and the specimen tray is returned to the specimen holderand locked using a lock mechanism. The droneflies to an arrival station, and after arriving, uses an unlocking key, and the specimen tray is disengaged from the specimen holder. After the specimen container in the specimen tray is collected, the specimen tray is placed in the specimen holder, and the dronereturns to the standby dock