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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2010
Susumu Sakairi, Hitachinaka, JP;
Katsuaki Takahashi, Hitachinaka, JP;
Stephan Sattler, Mannheim, DE;
Reinhold Kraemer, Mannheim, DE;
Susumu Sakairi, Hitachinaka, JP;
Katsuaki Takahashi, Hitachinaka, JP;
Stephan Sattler, Mannheim, DE;
Reinhold Kraemer, Mannheim, DE;
Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
F. Hoffman-La Roche AG, Basel, CH;
Abstract
An automated analyzer and a reagent vessel opening/closing device allows reduction of the time period during which reagent vessels are opened unnecessarily. The reagent vessel opening/closing device opens or closes the lids of reagent vessels when the reagent vessels are at a dispensing/stirring position on a reagent vessel transfer device of an automated analyzer. The device for opening/closing the lids of reagent vessels includes a hook base secured to a unit base and a hook-base drive unit for moving the hook base with respect to the unit base in opening/closing directions of the lids of the reagent vessels. A plurality of hooks are attached to the hook base and a plurality of motors are each adapted to slide one of the hooks with respect to the hook base to engage/disengage the hook with/from the lid of a reagent vessel.