Patent ID: 8347743

Claim:
A specimen processing device comprising: a first processing unit for processing a specimen; a second processing unit for processing a specimen; a conveyance unit for conveying a specimen rack in a first direction from a first position where the specimen is retrieved by the first processing unit to a second position where the specimen is retrieved by the second processing unit, and a second direction from the second position to the first position, the specimen rack holding a plurality of sample containers; a detector common to the first and second processing units for executing a predetermined detection process with respect to the sample containers held by the specimen rack; and a conveyance controller for controlling the conveyance unit to convey some sample containers of the detected sample containers executed with the detection process by the detector to the first position, and to convey the other sample containers of the detected sample containers to the second position, the some sample containers and the other sample containers being held by a common specimen rack.