Patent Document ID: 20150316531
Application ID: 14646150
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An automated analysis device that analyzes a blood clotting reaction comprising; a reaction container for mixing a sample with a reagent to cause a reaction; a measuring unit that irradiates light onto a reaction solution in the reaction container and that measures a scattered light intensity or a transmitted light intensity; a controller that processes chronological light intensity data measured by the measuring unit; a storage unit that stores one or more of approximation, functions approximating a chronological variation of the light intensity data; and an output unit that outputs a processed result of the controller, wherein the controller selects one of the approximation functions stored in the storage unit, wherein the controller performs: a first process calculating an approximated curve representing a chronological variation of the light, intensity data using the selected approximation function; a second process detecting, using the approximated curve, an abnormal data point included in the light intensity data; and a third process removing the abnormal data point from the light intensity data, wherein the controller analyses the blood clotting reaction, using at least one of the light intensity data and the approximated curve, and wherein when detecting the abnormal data point in the third process, the controller detects, as the abnormal data point, only one of a data point in the light intensity data having a light intensity value larger than that of the approximated curve and a data point in the light intensity data having a light intensity value smaller than that of the approximated curve.