Patent ID: 8518350
Filing Date: 2013-08-27
Classification: B01L,G01N

Abstract:
1. A reagent container, comprising: a container body having a plurality of holding sections respectively having a openings therein each defined by opposing walls, each holding a reagent and into which a probe of an automatic analyzing device is inserted to suck the reagent, with an opening of each of the holding sections sealed with at least one sheet-like seal member; and a lid having a plurality of open ended hollow piercing sections, formed on a lower surface of the lid, protruding downward for piercing the seal member at each of the openings, and allowing the probe to be inserted therethrough or withdrawn therefrom, the piercing sections having, as the maximum outer size thereof, a size of less than or equal to ½ the maximum distance between opposed inner surfaces of the opposing walls of at least one of the holding sections, each of the piercing sections having a shape for shearing the seal member, at a lower end thereof, wherein the reagent container is configured such that the seal member is pierced by pressing the lid onto the container body from above and the probe is allowed to be inserted into the holding sections through hollow sections of the piercing sections, and wherein when pressing is conducted by the lid, the piercing sections are dispose at a position with respect to the opening where the shortest distance from an inner wall surface of the corresponding opening of the container body to an outer circumferential surface of the piercing section is not greater than ½ of the shortest distance from the inner wall surface to the center of the piercing section.