Patent ID: 7955556
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: G01N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An analyzer capable of operating in a normal processing mode performing sequential analysis of a plurality of non-urgent specimens and in an interrupting mode performing analysis of an urgent specimen, comprising: means for transporting a non-urgent specimen container containing a non-urgent specimen to a first suction position at which a non-urgent specimen is suctioned, the means for transporting operating in the normal processing mode; means for holding an urgent specimen container containing an urgent specimen at a second suction position at which an urgent specimen is suctioned, wherein the second suction position is located out of a route on which non-urgent specimen containers are transported by the means for transporting; a slide rail for guiding a movement of the means for holding between a placement position at which an urgent specimen is placed in the means for holding and the second suction position; a locking mechanism for locking the means for holding at the second suction position to prevent a movement of the means for holding from the second suction position toward the placement position; a suction nozzle for suctioning a non-urgent specimen transported by the means for transporting at the first suction position in the normal processing mode and an urgent specimen at the second suction position in the interrupting mode; means for analyzing a non-urgent specimen and an urgent specimen suctioned by the suction nozzle; and a controller for performing operations in a following order, the operations comprising: interrupting the transport of a non-urgent specimen container by the means for transporting; suctioning an urgent specimen in the urgent specimen container by the suction nozzle; and releasing the locking mechanism of the means for holding.