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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 1988
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1986
Toshio Sakagami, Cofu, JP;
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An automatic chemical analyzer including a cuvette wheel having a number of cuvette holding recesses formed along a periphery thereof, a driving unit for rotating the cuvette wheel in a stepwise manner, an automatic cuvette loader for supplying cuvettes into cuvette holding recesses of the cuvette wheel, a sample delivery device for supplying samples into cuvettes held on the cuvette wheel, a reagent delivery device for supplying reagents into cuvettes held on the cuvette wheel, a colorimeter for measuring an optical density of test liquids contained in cuvettes, a washing device for washing cuvettes, and an automatic cuvette unloader for removing cuvettes out of the cuvette wheel. The analyzer further comprises a central control device for controlling the automatic cuvette loader and unloader such that after a cuvette has been repeatedly used a predetermined maximum number of times, the relevant cuvette is removed from the cuvette wheel and a new cuvette is supplied into the cuvette holding recess from which the cuvette has been just removed.
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