Enzyme activity measuring apparatus, enzyme activity measuring method, sample transcription apparatus and color measuring apparatus
First Claim
1. An enzyme activity measuring apparatus comprising a reagent/sample disposing unit configured to dispose a sample and a reagent containing member including an enzyme activity measuring reagent which measures an activity of an enzyme at a distance from each other, a sample transcription unit configured to bring the sample and the reagent containing member disposed by the reagent/sample disposing unit into contact with each other, and to transcribe a predetermined volume of the sample to the reagent containing member, a color depth measuring unit configured to measure a color depth of reagent included in the reagent containing member when predetermined time is elapsed after the sample is transcribed, and an enzyme activity detector configured to detect the activity of enzyme included in the sample based on the color depth measured by the color depth measuring unit.
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Abstract
An enzyme activity measuring apparatus comprises a reagent/sample disposing unit 5 which disposed a sample and a reagent containing member 13 including an enzyme activity measuring reagent at a distance from each other, a sample transcription unit 7 which brings the disposed reagent containing member 13 and the sample into contact with each other to transcribe a predetermined volume of sample to the reagent containing member 13, a color depth measuring unit 9 configured to measure color depth of a reagent included in the reagent containing member 13 when predetermined time is elapsed after the sample is transcribed, and CPU 101 configured to detect an activity of enzyme included in the sample based on the measured color depth.
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1. An enzyme activity measuring apparatus comprising
a reagent/sample disposing unit configured to dispose a sample and a reagent containing member including an enzyme activity measuring reagent which measures an activity of an enzyme at a distance from each other, a sample transcription unit configured to bring the sample and the reagent containing member disposed by the reagent/sample disposing unit into contact with each other, and to transcribe a predetermined volume of the sample to the reagent containing member, a color depth measuring unit configured to measure a color depth of reagent included in the reagent containing member when predetermined time is elapsed after the sample is transcribed, and an enzyme activity detector configured to detect the activity of enzyme included in the sample based on the color depth measured by the color depth measuring unit.
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14. An enzyme activity measuring method comprising
a reagent/sample disposing step for disposing a sample and a reagent containing member including an enzyme activity measuring reagent which measures an activity of an enzyme at a distance from each other, a sample transcription step for bringing the sample and the reagent containing member disposed in the reagent/sample disposing step into contact with each other, and for transcribing a predetermined volume of the sample to the reagent containing member, a color depth measuring step for measuring a color depth of reagent included in the reagent containing member when predetermined time is elapsed after the sample is transcribed, and an enzyme activity detecting step for detecting the activity of enzyme included in the sample based on the color depth measured in the color depth measuring step, wherein in the reagent/sample disposing step, a reagent containing member flat surface which is a flat surface portion of the reagent containing member and a sample containing member flat surface which is a flat surface portion of the sample containing member are disposed such that these flat surfaces are opposed to each other in substantially parallel to each other, in the sample transcription step, the reagent containing member flat surface and the sample containing member flat surface are brought into contact with each other for predetermined time under predetermined pressure.
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15. A sample transcription apparatus comprising
a reagent/sample disposing unit configured to dispose a sheet reagent containing member including enzyme activity measuring reagent which measures activity of enzyme and a sheet sample containing member including sample at a distance from each other, and a sample transcription unit which bring the reagent containing member and the sample disposed by the reagent/sample disposing unit and which transcribes a predetermined volume of sample to the reagent containing member, wherein the reagent/sample disposing unit disposes a reagent containing member flat surface which is a flat surface portion of the reagent containing member and a sample containing member flat surface which is a flat surface portion of the sample containing member such that these flat surfaces are opposed to each other in substantially parallel to each other, the sample transcription unit brings the reagent containing member flat surface and the sample containing member flat surface into contact with each other for predetermined time under predetermined pressure.
- 16. A color measuring apparatus comprising a color depth measuring unit which irradiates a reagent containing member flat surface which is a flat surface portion of a sheet reagent containing member including an enzyme activity measuring reagent which measures activity of enzyme with light substantially at right angles, and which measures the light reflected from the reagent containing member flat surface from a direction which is diagonal with respect to the reagent containing member flat surface, thereby measuring the depth of color of the reagent containing member.
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