Method for operating an automated sample workshop

A workshop and sample technology, applied in the direction of chemical instruments and methods, laboratory containers, laboratory analysis data, etc., can solve the problem of insufficient determination of processing steps, inflexibility of the workshop and inability to analyze tests, and sufficient pretreatment of biological sample and other issues to achieve the effect of avoiding delay

Active Publication Date: 2016-08-17
F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE & CO AG
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[0004] The problem is that the physical shipment and handling of samples may not always be synchronized with the distribution of specific assays to said biological samples
The disadvantage of this approach is that the information on the tube type alone is often insufficient to determine all the processing steps necessary to prepare a particular biological sample for a particular assay
In the latter case, the workshop is inflexible and often not capable of adequately preconditioning biological samples for a particular assay

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[0118] figure 1 is a block diagram of a sample workspace 102 according to one embodiment of the invention. The automated sample workcell 102 comprises: a sample input station 108; at least one centrifuge 116, 117; a transport unit 118 in the form of a sample conveyor for automatically transporting the biological samples 125 to 130 from the sample input station 108 to the centrifuge 116, 117 or any of the other sample processing units 119 to 121 (eg, aliquoting station 119 or decapping / recapping station 121). The transport unit can also transport the biological sample to the sample buffer station 120, or unload the sample from the buffer station. According to the depicted embodiment, the transport unit is operable to forward at least one received biological sample to one or more analysis systems 134, 131 after one or more pre-analytical processing steps have been performed on said sample and also to Forward to post-analysis sample workshop 132.

[0119] Each sample is tagge...

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The invention relates to a method for operating an automated sample workcell. A method for operating an automated sample workcell (102, 410, 301) for processing one or more biological samples (125-130), said method comprising:- receiving (201) said one or more biological samples, each sample contained in a sample tube, each sample tube having a tube type (122-124); - upon receipt of a test order (104) for at least one of said biological samples, said test order indicating in the case of one or more first processing steps, operating ( 204 ) the workshop to automatically perform said one or more first processing steps; and - in case said test order is not received, according to the The tube type of the sample tube of the at least one biological sample is determined (205) to determine (205) one or more second processing steps, and to perform (206) the one or more second processing steps.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a method for operating an automated sample cell and an automated sample cell operable for processing biological samples. Background technique [0002] In analytical laboratories, in particular clinical laboratories, numerous analyzes are performed on biological samples in order to determine the physiological state of a patient. Current pre-analytical standard processors on the market are capable of preparing multiple biological samples such as blood, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, etc. Typically, biological fluid samples are contained in open or capped sample tubes. Before chemical or biological analysis can be performed on a biological sample, it may be necessary to perform a number of different pre-analytical processing steps on a patient's sample. These processing steps may include centrifugation, capping, decapping, recapping and / or aliquotation steps. The processing steps may also include adding chemicals o...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): G01N35/00
CPCG01N35/0095G01N2035/00495G01N2035/00752G01N2035/00891G01N2035/0094G01N2035/0406G01N2035/0462G01N2035/0465G01N2035/0493B01L3/5021B01L3/5082B01L2200/143B01L2300/021B01L2300/023Y10T436/114165G01N35/00732G01N35/0092G16H10/40B04B13/00B04B2011/046G01N35/025B01L9/06B01L2300/0627G01N35/028G01N35/00871G01N35/04G01N2035/00851G01N2035/0405
Inventor F.富雷尔J.赫希勒A.克纳费尔
Owner F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE & CO AG
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