Liquid treating device for chemical analysis apparatus

• US 4,318,885 A
• Filed: 09/05/1980
• Issued: 03/09/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Olympus Optical Corporation Limited (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Optical Corporation Limited (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Nobuyoshi, Yoshinari, Shigeru
• Primary Examiner(s): Serwin, Ronald
• Application Number:
  US06/184,320
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• Field of Search: 422/50, 422/68, 422/81, 422/63, 422/100, 204/1 T, 204/195 R, 134/22 C
• US Class Current: 422/82.03
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/28 Electrolytic cell components
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/1004 Cleaning sample transfer devices

Abstract

A liquid treating device for chemical analysis apparatus which is provided with a nozzle for successively sucking various kinds of liquids such as a test liquid, wash liquid, reagent, standard liquid having a known ion concentration or the like and having one end connected to a liquid sucking means and another end operative to be penetrated into a liquid to be treated, said nozzle being surrounded by a cylindrical cell provided at its upper and lower end portions with branch pipes selectively connected to a wash liquid supply means. When both the liquid sucking means and wash liquid supply means are operative, the inner and outer wall of the nozzle are washed with the washed liquid.

Claims

1. A liquid treating device for chemical analysis apparatus comprising a nozzle for sucking a liquid to be treated thereinto, a liquid transfer pipe having one end connected to said nozzle, a liquid sucking means connected to the end of said liquid transfer pipe, a cylindrical member for surrounding the front end portion of said nozzle and arranged displaceably relative to said nozzle, means for displacing said nozzle relative to said cylindrical member in the axial direction thereof, and a wash liquid supply means selectively connected to said cylindrical member and for supplying a wash liquid into said cylindrical member, whereby said wash liquid supply means is operative when the front end portion of said nozzle is located in said cylindrical member to supply said wash liquid into said cylindrical member and said liquid sucking means is operative to suck said wash liquid into said nozzle, thereby washing the inner and outer walls of said nozzle.

2. The device according to claim 1 and further comprising a flow cell arranged in that portion of said liquid transfer pipe which lies between said nozzle and said liquid sucking means and provided with a comparative electrode and an ion sensor selectively sensitive to a specified ion, a standard liquid supply means selectively connected to that portion of said liquid transfer pipe which lies between said ion concentration measuring means and said nozzle and supplying a first standard liquid having a known ion concentration to said ion concentration measuring means when said liquid sucking means is operative, a standard liquid supply means selectively connected to said cylindrical member and for supplying a second standard liquid having a known ion concentration which is different from that of said first standard liquid to said cylindrical member, whereby when said nozzle is located in said cylindrical member, said standard liquid supply means and liquid sucking means are operative to cause said second standard liquid to flow through said cylindrical member, nozzle and liquid transfer pipe so as to clean the inner and outer walls of said nozzle, liquid transfer pipe and ion concentration measuring means.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein said cylindrical member is provided at is upper and lower end portion with branch pipes to which are selectively connected through a three way valve said wash liquid supply means.

4. The device according to claim 2, wherein said comparative electrode and ion sensor are connected through an amplifier, AD converter to a control device composed of a computer and connected to a memory, display device and printer, said control device being operative to perform a given operational treatment on the basis of calibration lines stored beforehand in said memory and representing ion concentration as a function of electric potentials detected by said ion sensor and the result of said operational treatment being displayed by said display device and printed out by said printer.

5. The device according to claim 2, wherein said flow cell is provided with a plurality of ion sensors secured to respective insulating resin blocks and arranged in axial direction.

6. The device according to claim 2, wherein said flow cell is provided with a plurality of ion sensors secured to respective insulating resin blocks and arranged in radial direction.