Method for setting up system of reagent chip analyzer

• US 8,195,408 B2
• Filed: 12/26/2007
• Issued: 06/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kaiwood Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Kaiwood Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Wu, Tzu-Chiang, Chuang, Tsung-Kai, Wang, Jiann-Hua, Chuang, Chien-Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Barbee, Manuel L
• Application Number:
  US11/964,152
• Publication Number:
  US 20090058617A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,623 Days
• Field of Search: 702/22, 702/27, 702/30, 702/31, 702/122, 702/123, 436/43, 436/46, 422/50, 422/530, 422/82.05
• US Class Current: 702/31
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00851 process control parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/00732 Identification of carriers, materials or components in automatic analysers

Abstract

A method for setting up a system of a reagent chip analyzer is provided. The method is adapted to modify parameters and testing conditions according to data of an authorization tag, so as to improve the adaptability range of the reagent chip analyzer for reagent chips of multiple specifications. The method includes: reading an identification code, authorization times, and specifications and analysis parameters of the reagent chip from an RFID tag; determining whether to load the specifications and the analysis parameters of the reagent chip according to the identification code and the authorization times; and if it is determined to load the specifications and the analysis parameters of the reagent chip, decreasing the authorization times by one, and analyzing the reagent chip according to the specifications and the analysis parameters of the reagent chip.

Claims

1. A method for setting up a system of a reagent chip analyzer for analyzing multiple types of color development reagent chips according to an authorization tag that records multiple types of reagent chip data, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) reading the reagent chip data of a selected type of reagent chips from the authorization tag by using the reagent chip analyzer, the reagent chip data comprising an identification code, authorization times and a specification and analysis parameters of the selected type of reagent chips;

(b) determining whether to load the specification and the analysis parameters of the corresponding reagent chips according to the identification code and the authorization times;

(c) if it is determined to load the specification and the analysis parameters of the corresponding reagent chips, decreasing the authorization times by one, and analyzing the corresponding reagent chips according to the specification and the analysis parameters of the corresponding reagent chips by using the reagent chip analyzer; and

(d) if there is a different type of reagent chips to be tested, reading the reagent chip data of the different type of reagent chips from the authorization tag by using the reagent chip analyzer and returning to step (b).

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the authorization tag is a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the analysis parameters comprise a quantity of regions to be tested, testing items, a size of the reagent chip, sizes of the regions to be tested, a calibration curve for the testing items, and a positive/negative determination threshold.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein step (c) further comprises:

after decreasing the authorization times, feeding back and recording the decreased authorization times in the authorization tag.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein in step (b) if it is determined to not load the specification and the analysis parameters, information indicating a mistake is displayed on a screen.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein in step (b) it is determined to load the specification and the analysis parameters of the reagent chip when the identification code is correct and the number of the authorization times is greater than 0.