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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2012
Takeo Kowari, Kobe, JP;
Makoto Ueda, Hyogo, JP;
Takeo Kowari, Kobe, JP;
Makoto Ueda, Hyogo, JP;
Sysmex Corporation, Kobe, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is a pipette tip supplying apparatus which comprises: a storing section configured to store a plurality of pipette tips; a supplying section configured to supply at least one of the plurality of pipette tips stored in the storing section outside the storing section; a detector configured to detect a pipette tip assembly in which one pipette tip and another pipette tip are piled up with a distal end of the one pipette tip inserted into the another pipette tip; and a discharging section configured to discharge the pipette tip assembly from the storing section, when the detector has detected the pipette tip assembly in the storing section.