Patent ID: 7749441

Claim:
An automatic analyzer system that dispenses samples and reagents into each of a plurality of reaction vessels to allow them to react with each other, and that measures the liquids formed as a result of the reactions, the automatic analyzer system comprising: a reaction disk containing said plurality of reaction vessels; first reagent storage disks for storing first reagent containers holding reagents to be used for the reactions, where one of said first reagent storage disks is disposed outside of said reaction disk and another of said first reagent storage disks is disposed inside of said reaction disk; a second reagent storage case, disposed above said one of said first reagent storage disks, for storing a plurality of second reagent containers holding reagents, said plurality of second reagent containers being supplemented to said first reagent containers, said plurality of second reagent containers hold a number of different reagents; a reagent holding means for conveying said plurality of second reagent containers from the second reagent storage case to the first reagent storage disks; a reader for reading information provided on each of the plurality of second reagent containers; and a controller for controlling said reagent holding means; a control computer storing reagent information read by said reader of each of said plurality of second reagent containers added to said second reagent storage case and information on the position where the added said second reagent containers are placed in said second reagent storage case, said control computer storing a mounted position and a remaining reagent amount of each of reagents in a plurality of first reagent containers on said first reagent storage disks, said control computer operates to cause said reader to check the reagent information of one of said plurality of second reagent containers holding a reagent to be supplemented, said controller operates said reagent holding means to convey the checked said one of said plurality of second reagent containers, if verified to hold the reagent to be supplemented, to said first reagent storage disks, and said control computer operates to determine whether or not a normal analysis can be performed with an amount of reagent remaining in said first reagent containers stored in the first reagent storage disks and, if not, said controller operates said reagent holding means to convey said one of said plurality of second reagent containers from the second storage case to the first reagent storage disks.