Patent ID: 7784678
Filing Date: 2010-08-31
Classification: G01N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An analytical strip reading apparatus, comprising a housing and a monitor provided on the housing, a delivering device for supporting an analytical strip and moving the analytical strip into or out of the housing, a barcode reader provided in the housing for reading barcode information of the analytical strip, a reaction signal reader provided in the housing for reading reaction signal emitted from the analytical strip, and a mother board provided in the housing for being electrically connected to the monitor, the delivering device, the barcode reader, and the reaction signal reader, the analytical strip reading apparatus being characterized by: further comprising a keyboard provided on the housing and a firmware device provided on the mother board, an identification code being inputted via the keyboard for the firmware device to perform detection, wherein the firmware device includes a database sub-module for saving optical reaction equation of a plurality of types of analytical strips, and a process sub-module, selecting one specific optical reaction equation from the database sub-module according to barcode information on the analytical strip and performing process according to the reaction signal provided by the reaction signal reader to produce a test result of an assay.