Patent ID: 8513021

Claim:
A control method for operating a measuring apparatus having a plurality of mechanism units used for measurement of an analyte, the method comprising: by an operation instructor, issuing operation commands respectively for at least some of the mechanism units; by a master communicator provided for the operation instructor, transmitting the operation commands one at a time respectively to slave communicators respectively provided for the at least some mechanism units; by each of the slave communicators, receiving one of the operation commands transmitted from the master communicator; by a driver provided for a respective of the at least some mechanism units, temporarily storing one of the operation commands received by a corresponding slave communicator; by the master communicator, broadcasting an operation start instruction signal for initiation of an operation to the slave communicators; by the slave communicators, substantially concurrently receiving the operation start instruction signal broadcasted from the master communicator; and by the drivers, substantially concurrently executing the stored operation commands to drive the at least some mechanism units in concert, upon reception of the operation start instructing signal by the slave communicators.