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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1999
Narihito Ishihara, Kanagawa, JP;
Tosoh Corporation, Shinnanyo, JP;
Abstract
An automatic measuring apparatus comprising an annular conveyor for conveying specimen receptacles each having a top opening and reaction receptacles each having a top opening in an intermixed manner, conveyance means for imparting a drive to the conveyor, dispensing means for acquiring a certain amount of specimen from the specimen receptacles and for discharging it into the reaction receptacles, and transfer means for transferring the dispensing means in both the horizontal and vertical directions, wherein a horizontally extending track of the dispensing means defined by the transfer means coincides with part of a receptacle conveyance track provided by the conveyance means.