ANALYSIS DEVICE, GENETIC ANALYSIS METHOD, ANALYSIS RECEPTACLE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR FUZZY CONTROL

• US 20150367314A1
• Filed: 02/04/2014
• Published: 12/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PHC Holdings Corporation
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: KOUGE, Masahiro, MORI, Kazuyoshi, IKETANI, Seiichiro, OCHI, Takashi, SHIMIZU, Ryuji, NAKASUKA, Shinichi
• Granted Patent: US 10,399,057 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 19/0013 Controlling the temperature of the process
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00054 Controlling or regulating the heat exchange system
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/0803 Disc shape
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/1844 using fans
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2400/0409 centrifugal forces
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 7/00 Heating or cooling apparatus autoclaves B01J3/04; Heat insulating devices
• CPC Class Codes: C12Q 1/68 involving nucleic acids
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00356 Holding samples at elevated temperature (incubation)
• 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

Abstract

With this analysis device, air that has been heated by a heater is blown by a fan in the direction of an analysis receptacle rotary driver and an analysis receptacle that is rotationally driven by the analysis receptacle rotary driver. The analysis receptacle rotary driver rotates the analysis receptacle within the analysis chamber in the same direction as the direction of air flow produced by the fan.

Claims

1. An analysis device, comprising:

an analysis chamber inside of which is placed an analysis receptacle;

a fan provided inside the analysis chamber and configured to blow air at the analysis receptacle;

a heater configured to heat the air blown from the fan toward the analysis receptacle; and

an analysis receptacle rotary driver disposed a specific distance away from the fan in the blowing direction of the fan inside the analysis chamber, and configured to rotate the analysis receptacle in the same direction as the direction of air flow formed by the fan.

2. The analysis device according to claim 1,

wherein the fan rotates in the same direction as the rotational direction of the analysis receptacle.

3. The analysis device according to claim 1,

wherein the analysis chamber is formed by linking a small round part that forms a cylindrical space in which the fan is housed, and a large round part that forms a cylindrical space with a larger radius than the small round part and that houses the analysis receptacle rotary driver.

4. The analysis device according to claim 3,

wherein the small round part is formed around a circle whose center is the rotational axis of the fan, and

the large round part is formed around a circle whose center is the rotational axis of the analysis receptacle rotary driver.

5. The analysis device according to claim 1,

wherein the heater is provided in the interior of the fan.

6. The analysis device according to claim 1,

wherein the analysis receptacle rotary driver allows the analysis receptacle to move in the rotational axis direction of the analysis receptacle with respect to the analysis chamber.

7. The analysis device according to claim 3,

wherein the analysis chamber has an analysis receptacle insertion opening provided to the large round part, and

an analysis receptacle loading tray is disposed so as to be able to move in and out of the analysis receptacle insertion opening.

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