PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905881
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["134", "05600R"]

Abstract:
A rinse mechanism rinses reaction cuvettes with first and second detergents. An R1 reagent pipetting mechanism  8  rinses the reaction cuvettes that have been rinsed by the rinse mechanism with a special detergent. A counting unit counts and stores in a storage unit a use frequency of each reaction cuvette for a specific reagent item. A determining unit determines whether the counted use frequency exceeds a predetermined threshold N1. A control unit controls the R1 reagent pipetting mechanism such that, in a case where the counted use frequency exceeds the predetermined threshold N1, the reaction cuvettes, which have exceeded the predetermined threshold N1, are soaked with the special detergent only for a period equal to or less than a value derived by multiplying a pipetting cycle time, which indicates a period when a sample is pipetted, by the total number of reaction cuvettes and a predetermined integer.

Claim (Index 1):
An automatic analyzing device comprising:\n a retaining mechanism that retains a plurality of reaction cuvettes; a reagent disk that retains a plurality of reagent containers containing a plurality of types of reagents; a rinse mechanism including a plurality of suction nozzles and a plurality of discharge nozzles that rinses the reaction cuvettes; a detergent feeding mechanism disposed adjacent to the retaining mechanism configured to dispense a first detergent to one or more reaction cuvettes; a code reader that reads code information disposed on each of the plurality of the reagent containers; and a control unit coupled to the rinse mechanism, the detergent feeding mechanism, and the code reader, that is programmed to: read code information from one or more of the reagent containers and determine a use frequency of each type of reagent based on the read code information, determine whether the use frequency exceeds a predetermined threshold N1, upon determining that the use frequency exceeds the predetermined threshold N1, control the detergent feeding mechanism to dispense the first detergent into only each of the reaction cuvettes that have exceeded the predetermined threshold N1 for a period of time equal to or less than a value derived by multiplying a pipetting cycle time, which indicates a period of time when a sample is pipetted, by the total number of the plurality of reaction cuvettes and a predetermined integer, has lapsed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02564
- Patent Class: 134.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14784359', '15297827', '10756511', '12200443', '11631164']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8003491953467563
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5724567712416431
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.777559952936245
- Mean Citation Score: 259.4841
- Max Citation Score: 444.63654
- Similarity Product: 420.414403735056

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

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