Patent ID: 7435382

Claim:
An incubator comprising a rotating incubator rotor provided with a plurality of element chambers which are arranged along the outer periphery of the incubator rotor and each of which accommodates a dry analysis element spotted with a sample and incubates the dry analysis element, wherein the improvement comprises that the incubator rotor is provided with a cone-like slant surface which is formed below the element chambers and tapers downward toward the axis of rotation of the incubator rotor, a cylindrical rotating shaft which is connected to the lower end of the slant surface and an inner space of which opens to the space defined by the cone-like slant surface so that the dry analysis element in each element chamber can be discarded outside the incubator through a space defined by the cone-like slant surface and the inner space of the cylindrical rotating shaft, and a bearing member which supports the cylindrical rotating shaft for rotation about the axis of rotation of the incubator rotor.