AUTOMATIC ANALYZING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEM

• US 20090099782A1
• Filed: 05/29/2008
• Published: 04/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: KIM, Su-hyeon, LEE, Jeong-gun, CHO, Yoon-kyoung
• Granted Patent: US 8,597,572 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/19
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00752 bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/00069 whereby the sample substrate is of the bio-disk type, i.e. having the format of an optical disk
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/00732 Identification of carriers, materials or components in automatic analysers
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/08 using a stream of discrete samples flowing along a tube system, e.g. flow injection analysis
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 436/11 Automated chemical analysis

Abstract

Provided are an automatic analyzing method and apparatus for a microfludic system. The apparatus includes means for recognizing a disc or chip in the microfludic system, performs an operation and detection by automatically loading a DB according to a recognized type, and perform quantitation of a test.

Claims

1. An automatic analyzing method for a microfludic system, the method comprising:

recognizing a disc of the microfludic system;

determining a database (DB) file corresponding to the recognized disc from a DB and loading the determined DB file;

performing an operation of the microfludic system according to operation-related information of the loaded DB file;

performing detection of the microfludic system according to detection-related information of the loaded DB file; and

calculating a detection result value according to test-related information of the loaded DB file and outputting the calculated detection result value.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, next to the loading, transmitting information for controlling operation, detection, and test of the microfludic system.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the DB comprises at least one of fundamental information, work sequence information, detection information, and test information of the disc.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation-related information comprises operation-related commands and variables of the microfludic system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the detection-related information comprises a detection position and a detection method for the disc in the microfludic system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the test-related information comprises information regarding an analysis result and a calculation method in the microfludic system.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the DB has an extensible markup language (XML) format.

8. A computer readable recording medium storing a computer readable program for executing the method of claim 1.

9. An automatic analyzing apparatus for a microfludic system, the apparatus comprising:

a recognition unit recognizing a disc of the microfludic system;

a first controller controlling an operation and detection of the microfludic system; and

a second controller controlling the first controller to control the operation and detection of the microfludic system, by determining a database (DB) file corresponding to the recognized disc, loading the determined DB file from a storage unit storing the DB file, and transmitting information on the loaded DB file to the first controller.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the DB comprises at least one of fundamental information, work sequence information, detection information, and test information of the disc.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising an operation unit operating pumps and valves of the microfludic system,

wherein the second controller controls the first controller to control an operation of the operation unit by transmitting operation-related information of the loaded DB file to the first controller.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the operation-related information comprises operation-related commands and variables of the microfludic system.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising a detector performing detection for a reaction result according to an operation of the microfludic system,

wherein the second controller controls the first controller to control detection of the detector by transmitting detection-related information of the loaded DB file to the first controller.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the detection-related information comprises a detection position and a detection method for the disc in the microfludic system.

15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the detector transmits the detection result value to the second controller via the first controller, and

the second controller calculates the detection result value according to test-related information of the DB file.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the test-related information comprises information regarding an analysis result and a calculation method in the microfludic system.

17. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the DB has an extensible markup language (XML) format.

18. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the recognition unit recognizes the disc by using a barcode or radio frequency identification (RFID).