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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2004
Tomonori Mimura, Tomobe, JP;
Masaaki Hanawa, Hitachinaka, JP;
Masaharu Nishida, Hitachinaka, JP;
Yoshiaki Igarashi, Mito, JP;
Yoshimitsu Takagi, Hitachinaka, JP;
Tomonori Mimura, Tomobe, JP;
Masaaki Hanawa, Hitachinaka, JP;
Masaharu Nishida, Hitachinaka, JP;
Yoshiaki Igarashi, Mito, JP;
Yoshimitsu Takagi, Hitachinaka, JP;
Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A reagent cassette used in an automatic analyzer for a clinical examination room, which provides an analysis environment enabling an operator to select reagent bottles with proper capacities depending on the number of tests to be performed in each different type of facility and to properly set reagents with ease. In the automatic analyzer comprising a sample pipetting section, a reagent pipetting section, a reaction cuvette, etc., one component in a sample is analyzed by using the reagent cassette in which one or a plurality of reagent bottles containing two or more types of reagents are combined together. The reagent cassette is provided with a reagent identifier including information regarding the presence or absence of a reagent opening of the reagent bottle for each of a plurality of positions of the openings.