Rotatable Incubation Unit for Luminescence Immunity Analyzer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing luminescence immunity analyzers lack flexibility in incubation time duration and test modes, limiting their ability to adapt to different test items, which degrades analysis performance and test flux.
Innovation Solution
An automatic analysis device with a rotatable incubation unit that employs a combination of fixed and self-adaptive transport cycles, allowing for variable incubation time durations and flexible test step combinations by controlling the rotation and operations of the incubation unit according to predetermined transport cycles, including both regular and self-adaptive operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional test modes with fixed incubation times are used, then the device structure can be simple, but the adaptability to different test items deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The incubation unit is designed with dynamic controllability, allowing the incubation time to be adjusted according to different test items. The control system can flexibly set incubation durations based on test requirements, transforming a static fixed-time system into a dynamic adaptive system that resolves the contradiction between adaptability and structural simplicity
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables parameter changes in incubation time duration to accommodate different test items. By allowing the incubation time parameter to be variable rather than fixed, the device achieves high adaptability to different immunological tests while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure through software/control-based parameter adjustment
2Productivity
If fixed transport cycles are used, then the operation control is simple, but the test flux deteriorates due to inability to perform multiple operations concurrently
Solution Approach 1:
The transport cycle is segmented into multiple sub-cycles, allowing different reaction containers to undergo different operations at different stages. This segmentation enables concurrent performance of multiple analysis operations across different containers, significantly improving test flux while maintaining manageable control through structured sub-cycle organization
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous useful action by ensuring that the incubation unit continuously transports and processes reaction containers without idle periods. Multiple operations are performed concurrently in different containers during the same transport cycle, maximizing productivity while the control system manages complexity through coordinated scheduling
3Reliability
If variable incubation time durations are implemented, then the analysis performance improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The incubation unit is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as a reaction chamber and a transport mechanism. This universal design allows variable incubation times to be implemented without adding separate control mechanisms, as the same unit performs both incubation and transport functions, thereby improving analysis performance while limiting the increase in device complexity
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AI summary
An automatic analysis device, an analysis method, and an analysis system are provided. The automatic analysis device comprises an incubation unit. When analyzing a sample under test, the incubation unit is controlled to rotate according to a predetermined transport cycle, wherein each transport cycle comprises at least one fixed transport sub-period in which the incubation unit is rotated a first rotation distance, and at least one self-adaptive transport sub-period in which the incubation unit is rotated a second rotation distance; when the incubation unit is controlled to rotate in the fixed transport sub-period of each transport cycle, in the stop period of the fixed transport sub-period, at least one regular operation capable of being performed in the fixed transport sub-period is performed; and when the incubation unit is controlled to rotate in the self-adaptive transport sub-period of each transport cycle, the incubation unit is controlled to rotate and stop at an executing station capable of performing a self-adaptive operation, and the self-adaptive operation is performed. The present invention can balance the test flux and analysis performance.