CONVEYANCE DEVICE, CONVEYANCE METHOD, CONVEYANCE PROGRAM, ANALYZER, ANALYSIS METHOD, AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a significant reduction of throughput of a series of analyses comprising a plurality of analyses when performing such a series of analyses and to maintain as good a throughput as possible.

SOLUTION: The conveyance device is a conveyance device for conveying samples for analysis while a plurality of sample containers containing an analysis object sample is mounted on a container mounting part, and is provided with: a first collecting part disposed at an upstream side in a conveying direction; a second collecting part disposed at a downstream side from the first collecting part in the conveying direction; and a conveying part that conveys sample containers on the container mounting part from the first collecting part side to the second collecting part side. One of the first collecting part and the second collecting part is a cyclic collecting part collecting samples from sample containers at a prescribed cycle. Execution of sample collections at the prescribed cycle by the cyclic collecting part is controlled based on a decision regarding possibility/impossibility of conveyance, and timing of conveyance by the conveying part is controlled so as to be asynchronous with the timing of sample collection by the cyclic collecting part.

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