Measurement apparatus

• US 10,101,318 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2016
• Issued: 10/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishijima, Kazuteru, Nishio, Tomonori, Kimura, Toshihito, Kuniyasu, Toshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Manish S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Plumb, Nigel
• Application Number:
  US15/006,581
• Publication Number:
  US 20160223516A1
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/491 by separating the blood components G01N15/05 takes precedence

Abstract

A centrifugal separation unit that performs centrifugal separation on a sample that has been injected into a container by rotating the container about a center axis of the container, as a rotation axis, a measurement unit that measures a sample component in the container that has been centrifugally separated by the centrifugal separation unit, and a correction unit that performs, on a result of the measurement, correction operation processing based on a change in concentration caused by evaporation of the sample during the centrifugal separation are provided.

Claims

1. A measurement apparatus comprising:

a centrifugal separation unit that performs centrifugal separation on a sample that has been injected into a container by rotating the container about a center axis of the container, as a rotation axis;

a measurement unit that measures a sample component in the container that has been centrifugally separated by the centrifugal separation unit;

a correction unit that performs, on a result of the measurement, correction operation processing based on a change in concentration caused by evaporation of the sample during the centrifugal separation; and

an atmospheric pressure information obtainment unit that obtains atmospheric pressure information,

wherein the correction unit performs, based on the atmospheric pressure information, the correction operation processing on the result of measurement.

2. The measurement apparatus, as defined in claim 1,

wherein the measurement unit measures also a sample component that has been centrifugally separated by an external centrifugal separation unit other than the centrifugal separation unit, and

wherein the correction unit does not perform the correction operation processing on a result of the measurement of the sample component that has been centrifugally separated by the external centrifugal separation unit or performs the correction operation processing on the result of the measurement of the sample component that has been centrifugally separated by the external centrifugal separation unit by using an operation parameter different from an operation parameter that was used when the correction operation processing was performed on the result of measurement of the sample component that had been centrifugally separated by the centrifugal separation unit.

3. The measurement apparatus, as defined in claim 1, the apparatus further comprising:

a temperature information obtainment unit that obtains ambient temperature information,

wherein the correction unit performs, based on the ambient temperature information, the correction operation processing on the result of measurement.

4. The measurement apparatus, as defined in claim 1, the apparatus further comprising:

a humidity information obtainment unit that obtains ambient humidity information,

wherein the correction unit performs, based on the ambient humidity information, the correction operation processing on the result of measurement.

5. The measurement apparatus, as defined in claim 1, the apparatus further comprising:

a time information obtainment unit that obtains information about the length of time of the centrifugal separation,

wherein the correction unit performs, based on the information about the length of time of the centrifugal separation, the correction operation processing on the result of measurement.

6. The measurement apparatus, as defined in claim 1, the apparatus further comprising:

a sample amount information obtainment unit that obtains information about the amount of the sample component that has been centrifugally separated,

wherein the correction unit performs, based on the information about the amount of the sample component, the correction operation processing on the result of measurement.

7. The measurement apparatus, as defined in claim 6, wherein when the sample is blood, the sample amount information obtainment unit obtains information about a hematocrit value of the blood, and obtains, based on the information about the hematocrit value, information about the amount of a blood plasma component, as the information about the amount of the sample component.

8. The measurement apparatus, as defined in claim 1, the apparatus further comprising:

an information obtainment unit that obtains atmospheric pressure information, ambient temperature information, ambient humidity information, information about the length of time of the centrifugal separation, and information about the amount of the sample component,

wherein the correction unit performs, based on the atmospheric pressure information, the ambient temperature information, the ambient humidity information, the information about the length of time of the centrifugal separation, and the information about the amount of the sample component, correction operation processing on the result of the measurement.

9. The measurement apparatus, as defined in claim 1,

wherein the measurement unit measures a gas component included in the sample on which the centrifugal separation has been performed, and

wherein the correction unit performs, based on the amount of the gas component evaporated by the centrifugal separation, the correction operation processing on the result of measurement.

10. The measurement apparatus, as defined in claim 1, the apparatus further comprising:

a container information obtainment unit that obtains information about a container into which the sample to be measured has been injected,

wherein the correction unit performs, based on the information about the container, the correction operation processing on the result of measurement.

11. The measurement apparatus, as defined in claim 10, wherein the correction unit stores operation parameters of the correction operation processing that correspond to information about a plurality of containers including the container.