Patent ID: 8734721

Claim:
An analyzer that includes a cleaning system that cleans a specimen to be analyzed or a member that has been in contact with liquid used in an analysis process, the analyzer comprising: a cleanser tank that contains a cleanser; a cleaning-water tank that contains purified water including any one of, or combinations of, ion-exchange water, distilled water, and ultra-filtrated water; a connection pipe that connects the cleanser tank with the cleaning-water tank; a pump that is provided to the connection pipe and pumps the cleanser out of the cleanser tank to the cleaning-water tank; a valve that is provided to the connection pipe and adjusts a flow of the cleanser from the cleanser tank into the cleaning-water tank; and a control unit programmed to open the valve and cause the pump to pump the cleanser out of the cleanser tank to the cleaning-water tank via the connection pipe and programmed to cause the cleanser to further flow from the cleaning-water tank through cleaning-water flow-path constituents that form a flow path being separate from the connection pipe, so as to clean the inside of the cleaning-water tank and the insides of the cleaning-water flow-path constituents wherein the control unit is further programmed to cause the purified water including any one of, or combinations of, ion-exchange water, distilled water, and ultra-filtrated water, separate from the cleanser, to flow from the cleaning-water tank through the flow path so as to clean the specimen to be analyzed or the member that has been in contact with liquid used in the analysis process.