Analysis Chip Handling Layout for Preheated Incubator Return
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing analyzers require complex structures and increased size when incorporating a return mechanism for preheated analysis chips, complicating the transfer and discard processes.
Innovation Solution
An analyzer design that integrates a rotary table with shared slide bars for both return and discard mechanisms, allowing preheating within an incubator without adding additional mechanisms, and uses detachable analysis chips for multiple types of measurements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If a return mechanism is added to return preheated analysis chips from the incubator to the spotting position, then uniform measurement conditions are achieved, but the device structure becomes complex and size increases
Solution Approach 1:
The transfer mechanism is designed to perform multiple functions: it transfers analysis chips from the spotting position to the incubator, and also returns preheated chips from the incubator to the spotting position. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for a separate return mechanism, resolving the contradiction between achieving uniform measurement conditions and maintaining simple device structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the return mechanism functionality into the existing transfer mechanism. The transfer mechanism and discard mechanism share common components, and the return function is integrated into this existing structure rather than being added as a separate system, thereby avoiding structural complexity and size increase.
2Manufacturing precision
If a return mechanism is added to return preheated analysis chips from the incubator to the spotting position, then uniform measurement conditions are achieved, but the analyzer size increases
Solution Approach 1:
The transfer mechanism is designed to perform multiple functions: it transfers analysis chips from the spotting position to the incubator, and also returns preheated chips from the incubator to the spotting position. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for a separate return mechanism, resolving the contradiction between achieving uniform measurement conditions and maintaining compact device size.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the return mechanism functionality into the existing transfer mechanism. The transfer mechanism and discard mechanism share common components, and the return function is integrated into this existing structure rather than being added as a separate system, thereby avoiding structural complexity and size increase.
3Ease of operation
If separate transfer and discard mechanisms are used, then functional requirements are met, but structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the transfer mechanism and discard mechanism into a single integrated system. Both mechanisms share common components including the rotary table, drive mechanisms, and chip handling structures. This integration maintains the functional ability to transfer chips to the incubator and discard used chips while significantly reducing structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated mechanism performs multiple functions: transferring chips from the spotting position to the incubator, returning preheated chips to the spotting position, and discarding used chips. This multi-functionality is achieved through a single unified system rather than separate mechanisms, resolving the contradiction between functional requirements and structural complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Achieves structural simplification and size reduction while maintaining uniform measurement conditions by preheating analysis chips within the incubator, simplifying the transfer and discard processes.
Implementation Method 1
an incubator that has a rotary table on which a plurality of cells each of which holds one of the plurality of analysis chips are arranged in a circumferential direction, the rotary table being configured to rotate in such a manner as to sequentially transport the plurality of analysis chips to a measurement position, and that heats the plurality of analysis chips on the rotary table to a predetermined temperature
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AI summary
An analyzer includes an incubator that has a rotary table configured to rotate in such a manner as to sequentially transport a plurality of analysis chips to a measurement position and that heats the plurality of analysis chips on the rotary table to a predetermined temperature, a measurement unit that is disposed at the measurement position and that measures a test substance sample spotted on the plurality of analysis chips, a transfer mechanism that transfers the analysis chips from a spotting position at which the test substance sample is spotted onto the analysis chips to the cells inside the incubator, a return mechanism that returns the analysis chips preheated in the incubator before the test substance sample is spotted onto the analysis chips from the cells inside the incubator to the spotting position, and a discard mechanism that transfers the analysis chips having undergone measurement from the cells inside the incubator to a discard position. The return mechanism and the discard mechanism share at least one component.