公开(公告)号：US20230027794A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-26

申请号：US17786628

申请日：2020-12-01

Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION

Inventor： Hiroshi WATANABE ,  Hayato YAMADA

IPC: G01N35/00 ,  G01N35/04

Abstract: The specimen conveyance device and method can easily specify, regardless of the size of the system, the position on the device of the specimen tube whose position is desired to be grasped and the position on the device of the device part whose position is desired to be grasped. A specimen conveyance unit 10 includes a plurality of conveyance blocks 1, each of which includes one or more light emitting bodies 3 and conveys a specimen tube holder 6 that holds a specimen tube 5 storing a specimen, and a control unit 4 for controlling the conveyance operation of the specimen tube holder 6 by the conveyance block 1, in which the control unit 4 causes the light emitting body 3 of a specific conveyance block 1 among the conveyance blocks 1 to emit light in accordance with the conveyance state of the specimen tube holder 6.