Electric pipette system, electric pipette, and operating procedure display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10661267-B2
Application number	US-201715447110-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 2, 2017
Priority date	Sep 3, 2014
Publication date	May 26, 2020
Grant date	May 26, 2020

Abstract

Provided is an electric pipette system, including: an operating condition receiving milt configured to receive an operating condition of a manipulation operation to foe occur next; a suction/discharge operating unit configured to perform at least any one of a suction operation and a discharge operation of a liquid by an electric pipette based cm the operating condition; an information collecting unit configured to collect various types of information during the suction operation or the discharge operation of the liquid; and an information recording unit configured to record the information.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric pipette system, comprising:
an operating procedure display device, and
an electric pipette
the electric pipette comprising:
a control unit, which is a micro controller configured to:
receive, from the operating procedure display device, an operating condition of a manipulation operation to occur next;
control the electric pipette to perform at least one of a suction operation and a discharge operation of a liquid by the electric pipette, based on the operating condition; and
collect various types of information during the suction operation or the discharge operation of the liquid;

an information transmission unit configured to communicate with the operating procedure display device;
wherein the operating procedure display device comprises a computer configured to:
receive, tamper-proof, and record, in that order, the various types of information collected by the control unit of the electric pipette;
receive information transmitted from the electric pipette; and
transmit information to the electric pipette;
wherein said tamper-proof is one selected from the group consisting of (1) adding a hash value to the received information; (2) adding an error detecting code to the received information; and (3) adding an electronic signature to the received information.

2. The electric pipette system according to claim 1 , wherein the electric pipette is configured to collect, save, and transmit to the operating procedure display device:
times at which a manipulation operation is performed by the electric pipette,
information on whether the manipulation operation is a suction operation or a discharge operation, and
information on an amount of liquid used in the suction operation or the discharge operation.

3. The electric pipette system according to claim 2 , wherein the electric pipette is further configured to collect, save, and transmit to the operating procedure display device at least one of an amount of a liquid in a chip, a nature of the liquid in the chip, and an image of the liquid in the chip.

4. The electric pipette system according to claim 2 , wherein the electric pipette is further configured to collect, save, and transmit to the operating procedure display device at least one of an ID of an experiment operator and an ID of the electric pipette.

5. The electric pipette system according to claim 2 , wherein the electric pipette is further configured to collect, save, and transmit to the operating procedure display device a position of the electric pipette.

6. The electric pipette system according to claim 2 , wherein the electric pipette is further configured to collect, save, and transmit to the operating procedure display device information on replacement of the chip.

7. The electric pipette system according to claim 1 , wherein the operating procedure display device is configured to:
display an operating procedure; and
display a manipulation operation to occur next.

8. The electric pipette system according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit is configured to collect information on a conveyance apparatus configured to convey the electric pipette.

9. The electronic pipette system according to claim 1 , wherein said tamper-proof is adding a hash value to the received information.

10. The electronic pipette system according to claim 1 , wherein said tamper-proof is adding an error detecting code to the received information.

11. The electronic pipette system according to claim 1 , wherein said tamper-proof is adding an electronic signature to the received information.

Assignees

• Aist
• Yaskawa Electric Corp
• Robotic Biology Inst Inc

Inventors

• Natsume Toru
• Sasaki Naoyuki
• Matsukuma Kenji
• Umeno Makoto
• Ipposhi Tatsuro

Classifications

• B01L3/0237 Primary

  Details of electronic control, e.g. relating to user interface · CPC title

• B01L2300/027

  Digital display, e.g. LCD, LED · CPC title

• B01L2200/141

  Preventing contamination, tampering · CPC title

• G01N35/1011

  Control of the position or alignment of the transfer device · CPC title

• B01L2300/023

  Sending and receiving of information, e.g. using Bluetooth® · CPC title