SPECIMEN PREPROCESSING AND CONVEYING SYSTEM

摘要

When a large-scale analyzing system capable of processing a large number of specimens is connected to a plurality of analyzing systems having minimum configurations in units of analyzing devices, it is difficult for the system to continue analysis while managing and sharing consumable article information required for measurement among the plurality of analyzing devices. Furthermore, since a specimen preprocessing and conveying system does not grasp the analyzing states of analyzing systems, the specimen preprocessing and conveying system conveys specimens to the analyzing systems that cannot perform analysis, and reporting of test results is delayed in some cases. Although the current specimen preprocessing and conveying system calculates the loaded states of the analyzing systems from the state of congestion of buffer units connected to the analyzing systems, some states cannot be determined from only the loaded states. Disclosed is a specimen preprocessing and conveying system capable of managing the working states inside a plurality of analyzing systems in a collective manner and capable of continuing analysis by conveying specimens among the analyzing systems in a cross-sectional manner. Moreover, when the specimen preprocessing and conveying system determines that analysis cannot be continued, the specimen preprocessing and conveying system temporarily keeps the specimens on standby, and automatically continues the analysis of the specimens after recovery.