Patent ID: 7556771
Filing Date: 2009-07-07
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
1. An automatic analyzing system which analyzes samples, the automatic analyzing system comprising: a carry line; a plurality of analyzing apparatuses, each containing a corresponding reagent, which are disposed along the carry line; a reagent shortage detection unit for detecting that the corresponding reagent used in analyzing a sample in any of the analyzing apparatuses is short; and a management computer for controlling operations of said analyzing system, said management computer including a register unit to register particular reagents in the analyzing system, and the management computer being configured to register any of the analyzing apparatuses in which any one of said particular reagents is detected as being short; and a plurality of module computers for the plurality of analyzing apparatuses, the plurality of module computers each corresponding to one of the plurality of analyzing apparatuses, each module computer being programmed to stop the corresponding analyzing apparatus in which any one of said particular reagents registered is detected as being short.