ANALYSIS DEVICE, ANALYSIS PROGRAM, AND ANALYSIS METHOD

• US 20120185195A1
• Filed: 01/17/2012
• Published: 07/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc
• Original Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc
• Inventors: SUGIYAMA, Koji, SHIRAKI, Yasunori
• Application Number:
  US13/352,114
• Publication Number:
  US 20120185195A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/85
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/44756 Apparatus specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/48771 Coding of information, e.g. calibration data, lot number
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/00693 Calibration
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/00732 Identification of carriers, materials or components in automatic analysers

Abstract

An analysis device comprises an identification data acquisition unit for acquiring an identifier of a mounted measurement device, a calibration unit for recording calibration data of the measurement device associated with the identifier of the measurement device to a recording device, and a computing unit that calculates a value indicating the information related to the measurement target component by using measurement data obtained by detection of the measurement target component by a detector and calibration data that has been recorded to the recording device associated with the identifier of the measurement device acquired by the identification data acquisition unit.

Claims

1. An analysis device that controls a detector for detecting a measurement target component in the sample held by a removable measurement device for holding the sample in a state that allows measurement, and thereby acquires measurement data and analyzes the measurement target component, the analysis device comprising:

an identification data acquisition unit adapted to acquire an identifier of the measurement device mounted to the analysis device;

a calibration unit adapted to record calibration data associated with the identifier of the measurement device to at least one of recording device provided to the analysis device or recording device that is accessible from the analysis device; and

a computing unit adapted to calculate a value indicating information related to the measurement target component by using measurement data obtained by detection of the measurement target component by the detector and calibration data that has been recorded to the recording device associated with the identifier of the measurement device acquired by the identification data acquisition unit.

2. The analysis device according to claim 1, wherein the calibration unit is adapted to determine whether or not calibration data associated with the identifier of the mounted measurement device has been recorded to the recording device when the measurement device is mounted, and if the calibration data has not been recorded to the recording device, the calibration data is produced and recorded to the recording device with being associated with the identifier of the mounted measurement device.

5. The analysis device according to claim 1, wherein the computing unit is adapted to record the number of measurements of the measurement target component using the measurement device associated with the identifier of the measurement device to the recording device, and to determine whether or not measurement is performed using the measurement device based on the number of measurements.

7. The analysis device according to claim 1, wherein the computing unit is adapted to record the elapsed time and/or the number of measurements after the previous calibration of the measurement device associated with the identifier of the measurement device to the recording device, and the calibration unit is adapted to determine whether or not to perform calibration based on the elapsed time and/or the number of measurements after the previous calibration.

9. The analysis device according to claim 1, wherein the calibration unit is adapted to also associate the identifier of the analysis device to the calibration data and the identifier of the measurement device and records the result, and to determine whether or not calibration data associated with the identifier of the mounted measurement device and the identifier of the analysis device has been recorded to the recording device when the measurement device is mounted, and if the calibration data has not be recorded to the recording device, the calibration data is produced and recorded to the recording device with being associated with the identifier of the mounted measurement device and the identifier of the analysis device.

11. The analysis device according to claim 1,

wherein the measurement device comprises a plurality of channels,

the identifier of the measurement device includes a channel identifier for each of the plurality of channels,

the calibration unit is adapted to produce or update the calibration data for each of the channels, and to record the channel identifier associated with the calibration data, and

the computing unit is adapted to calculate a value indicating information related to the measurement target component by using the measurement data obtained by detection of the measurement target component at one channel by the detector and calibration data that has been recorded to the recording device associated with the channel identifier of the one channel included in the identifier of the measurement device acquired by the identification data acquisition unit.

13. The analysis device according to claim 1, wherein the calibration unit is adapted to produce or update the calibration data by using measurement data obtained by detection of the measurement target component in a calibration sample in the measurement device, and to record the calibration data associate with the measurement device identifier.

3. An analysis device that controls a detector for detecting a measurement target component in the sample held by a removable measurement device for holding the sample in a state that allows measurement, and thereby acquires measurement data and analyzes the measurement target component, the analysis device comprising:

an identification data acquisition unit adapted to acquire an identifier of an analysis device;

a calibration unit adapted to record calibration data associated with the identifier of the analysis device to a recording device that is provided to the mounted measurement device; and

a computing unit adapted to calculate a value indicating information related to the measurement target component by using measurement data obtained by detection of the measurement target component by the detector and calibration data that has been recorded to the recording device of the measurement device associated with the identifier of the analysis device acquired by the identification data acquisition unit.

4. The analysis device according to claim 3, wherein the calibration unit is adapted to determine whether or not the calibration data associated with the identifier of the analysis device has been recorded to the recording device of the measurement device when the measurement device is mounted, and if the calibration data has not been recorded to the recording device, the calibration data is produced and recorded to the recording device with being associated with the identifier of the analysis device.

6. The analysis device according to claim 3, wherein the computing unit is adapted to record the number of measurements of the measurement target component using the measurement device associated with the identifier of the measurement device to the recording device, and to determine whether or not measurement is performed using the measurement device based on the number of measurements.

8. The analysis device according to claim 3, wherein the computing unit is adapted to record the elapsed time and/or the number of measurements after the previous calibration of the measurement device associated with the identifier of the measurement device to the recording device, and the calibration unit is adapted to determine whether or not to perform calibration based on the elapsed time and/or the number of measurements after the previous calibration.

10. The analysis device according to claim 3, wherein the calibration unit is adapted to also associate the identifier of the analysis device to the calibration data and the identifier of the measurement device and records the result, and to determine whether or not calibration data associated with the identifier of the mounted measurement device and the identifier of the analysis device has been recorded to the recording device when the measurement device is mounted, and if the calibration data has not be recorded to the recording device, the calibration data is produced and recorded to the recording device with being associated with the identifier of the mounted measurement device and the identifier of the analysis device.

12. The analysis device according to claim 3,

wherein the measurement device comprises a plurality of channels,

the identifier of the measurement device includes a channel identifier for each of the plurality of channels,

the calibration unit is adapted to produce or update the calibration data for each of the channels, and to record the channel identifier associated with the calibration data, and

the computing unit is adapted to calculate a value indicating information related to the measurement target component by using the measurement data obtained by detection of the measurement target component at one channel by the detector and calibration data that has been recorded to the recording device associated with the channel identifier of the one channel included in the identifier of the measurement device acquired by the identification data acquisition unit.

14. The analysis device according to claim 3, wherein the calibration unit is adapted to produce or update the calibration data by using measurement data obtained by detection of the measurement target component in a calibration sample in the measurement device, and to record the calibration data associate with the measurement device identifier.

15. A measurement device that is attachable to and removable from an analysis device and is a device for holding a sample in a state that allows measurement comprising,

recording device for recording calibration data that is associated with an identifier of the analysis device and is used in calculating a measurement target component from measurement data obtained by detection of the measurement target component in the sample held by the measurement device.

16. An non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an analysis program causing a computer to execute processing that controls a detector for detecting a measurement target component in the sample held by a removable measurement device for holding the sample in a state that allows measurement, and thereby acquires measurement data and analyzes the measurement target component, the analysis program causing the computer to execute following processes:

identification data acquisition processing of acquiring an identifier of the measurement device mounted to the analysis device;

calibration processing of recording calibration data associated with the identifier of the measurement to recording device; and

computation processing of calculating a value indicating information related to the measurement target component by using measurement data obtained by detection of the measurement target component by the detector and calibration data that has been recorded to the recording device associated with the identifier of the measurement device acquired by the identification data acquisition processing.

17. An analysis method executed by a computer that controls a detector for detecting a measurement target component in the sample held by a removable measurement device for holding the sample in a state that allows measurement, and thereby acquires measurement data and analyzes the measurement target component, the analysis method comprising:

an identification data acquisition step of acquiring an identifier of the measurement device mounted to the analysis device;

a calibration step of recording calibration data associated with the identifier of the measurement device to recording device; and

a computation step of calculating a value indicating information related to the measurement target component by using measurement data obtained by detection of the measurement target component by the detector and calibration data that has been recorded to the recording device associated with the identifier of the measurement device acquired by the identification data acquisition step.