PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15754892
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["436", "043000"]

Abstract:
An automated analyzer makes light from a light source incident on a liquid mixture consisting of a sample and a reagent in a reactor vessel and, by ascertaining with a photodetector the quantity of light transmitted or scattered and the change in the wavelength, performs quantitative and qualitative analysis of an object component. When light other than from the light source such as light from outside is incident on the photodetector, since it is no longer possible to accurately measure the quantity of light and the change in the wavelength, it is also no longer possible to accurately measure the analysis of the object component. In particular, in the constitution of an analysis unit provided with a plurality of analysis ports, during analysis at one analysis port, due to various mechanisms accessing other analysis ports, disturbance light such as light reflected on this mechanism would enter the analysis port under analysis and sometimes have an effect on the measurement result. The present invention provides an automated analyzer that, by means of a first light shielding mechanism and a second light shielding mechanism having an opening part in an analysis unit provided with a plurality of analysis ports, does not allow disturbance light to be incident on the analysis port under analysis so that each mechanism is capable of accessing any analysis port.

Claim (Index 12):
An analysis method in an automated analyzer including a reactor vessel that accommodates a liquid mixture consisting of a sample and a reagent, a dispensation mechanism that dispenses the sample and the reagent to the reactor vessel, an analysis unit that includes a plurality of analysis ports each including an optical system formed by a light source radiating light to the reactor vessel accommodating the liquid mixture and a photodetector unit receiving the light radiated from the light source, a first light shielding mechanism that shields all the analysis ports from light among the plurality of analysis ports, a second light shielding mechanism that includes an opening part and shields some of the analysis ports from light among the plurality of analysis ports, and a control unit that controls operations of the dispensation mechanism, the first light shielding mechanism, and the second light shielding mechanism, the method comprising:\n moving, by the control unit, the second light shielding mechanism to place the opening part at a position of a predetermined analysis port in a state in which all the analysis ports are shielded from light by the first light shielding mechanism, and moving, by the control unit, the first light shielding mechanism so that the light shielding by the first light shielding mechanism is excluded after the second light shielding mechanism is moved.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29126
- Patent Class: 436.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14784424', '15547910', '14410113', '15758993', '16325885']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6692284045960099
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4751273270693195
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6498182968433408
- Mean Citation Score: 201.48659200000003
- Max Citation Score: 211.4008
- Similarity Product: 154.44539220876698

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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