Patent ID: 9395380
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G01N,G05D,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A specimen processing apparatus comprising: a specimen processing section which includes a movable section and processes a specimen by moving the movable section automatically; and a controller configured to control the specimen processing section to control an automatic moving operation of the movable section, receive a detection result related to a position of the movable section, determine, based on the detection result, whether or not the movable section was moved while the automatic moving operation of the movable section had been stopped, and control the specimen processing section to move the movable section to an original point position by a first moving operation in response to determining that the movable section was not moved while the automatic moving operation of the movable section had been stopped, and control the specimen processing section to move the movable section to the original point position by a second moving operation which is different from the first moving operation in response to determining that the movable section was moved while the automatic moving operation of the movable section had been stopped.