Sample measuring apparatus, reagent information displaying method and computer program product

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9227190-B2
Application number	US-60765609-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 28, 2009
Priority date	Oct 31, 2008
Publication date	Jan 5, 2016
Grant date	Jan 5, 2016

Abstract

The present invention is to present a sample measuring apparatus, comprising: a reagent holder for holding plural kinds of reagents; a measurement unit for measuring a measurement sample, prepared from a sample and plural kinds of reagents held by the reagent holder, for a predetermined measurement item; a display; and a display controller for controlling the display so as to display a screen including a predetermined display area showing a measurable number of times indicating how many times the measuring unit is able to perform a measurement for the predetermined measurement item by using the plural kinds of reagents held by the reagent holder.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A sample measuring apparatus, comprising:
a reagent holder holding a plurality of reagents;
a measurement unit measuring at least one predetermined measurement item in a measurement sample, wherein the measurement sample is prepared from a sample and at least one of the plurality of reagents held by the reagent holder;
a display; and
a display controller configured to control the display to display a reagent management screen comprising:
a predetermined display area showing at least one measurable number of times indicating how many times the measuring unit is able to perform a measurement of the at least one predetermined measurement item by using the at least one of the plurality of reagents held by the reagent holder,
a second display area showing a plurality of reagent marks identifying positions of each of the plurality of reagents in the reagent holder, the second display area being separate from the predetermined display area,
a third display area displaying detailed information which includes the remaining amount information of a reagent corresponding to one of first and second reagent marks displayed in the second display area,
a measurement item specification accepting part included in the predetermined display area and configured to specify the at least one predetermined measurement item from a plurality of measurement items,
wherein, in response to said specifying the at least one predetermined measurement item in the predetermined display area, the display controller searches for reagents used for the measurement of the specified at least e predetermined measurement item and controls the second display area to change a display of the first reagent marks corresponding to found reagents to be displayed in an emphasized manner from the second reagent marks corresponding to other reagents of the plurality of reagents displayed in the second display area,
wherein each of the at least one predetermined measurement item is displayed in the predetermined display area together with the at least one measurable number of times and a graph representing the at least one measurable number of times,
wherein the first and second reagent marks are specifiable,
wherein the display controller controls the display so as to display, in the third display area, detailed information of a reagent corresponding to a specified reagent mark,
wherein the display controller controls the display to switchably display one of the predetermined display area and the third display area via a measurement item tab and a reagent information tab.

2. The sample measuring apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a number obtainer for obtaining the at least one measurable number of times.

3. The sample measuring apparatus of claim 2 , further comprising
a remaining amount information obtainer for obtaining remaining amount information related to remaining amounts of the reagents related to the at least one predetermined measurement item,
wherein the number obtainer obtains the at least one measurable number of times based on the remaining amount information of the reagents obtained by the remaining amount information obtainer.

4. The sample measuring apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the number obtainer obtains, for the reagents related to the at least one predetermined measurement item, a remaining number of tests indicating how many times the reagent can be used for the measurement of the at least one predetermined measurement item, based on the remaining amount information of the reagents obtained by the remaining amount information obtainer, and obtains the at least one measurable number of times based on a minimum remaining number of tests among the remaining number of tests of each of the reagents related to the at least one predetermined measurement item.

5. The sample measuring apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the graph is displayed so as to be distinguishable from a graph reflecting at least one measurable number of times greater than a predetermined value, when the at least one measurable number of times is smaller than or equal to the predetermined value.

6. The sample measuring apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the graph is displayed so as to be distinguishable from a graph representing a definite measurable number of times, when the at least one measurable number of times is indefinite.

7. The sample measuring apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the measurement unit is configured to perform measurement of another measurement item that is different from the at least one predetermined measurement item in another measurement sample prepared from the sample and another plurality of reagents held by the reagent holder; and
wherein a measurable number of times of the another measurement item is further displayed in the predetermined display area.

8. The sample measuring apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the reagent management screen includes, in the predetermined display area, a first specification part specifying the at least one predetermined measurement item and a second specification part specifying the another measurement item as the measurement item specification accepting part.

9. The sample measuring apparatus of claim 1 , wherein each of the first and second reagent marks comprises a remaining amount information display area for displaying remaining amount information related to a remaining amount of a reagent; and
wherein the display controller controls the display so as to display, in each remaining amount information display area, the remaining amount information of each reagent held by the reagent holder.

10. The sample measuring apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the display controller controls the display so as to display the remaining amount information of each reagent held by the reagent holder by changing an appearance including at least one of color and pattern of each remaining amount information display area.

11. The sample measuring apparatus of claim 1 , wherein each of the first and second reagent marks displayed in the second display area includes a reagent name display area for displaying a name of a reagent; and
wherein the display controller controls the display so as to display a name of a reagent corresponding to each reagent mark in each reagent name display area.

12. A sample measuring apparatus, comprising:
a reagent holder holding a plurality of reagents;
a measurement unit measuring at least one predetermined measurement item among a plurality of measurement items in a sample, wherein the measurement of the at least one predetermined measurement item is performed by using a plurality of reagents held by the reagent holder;
a display; and
a controller being configured to perform operations comprising:
obtaining at least one measurable number of times indicating how many times the measuring unit is able to perform a measurement of the at least one predetermined measurement item in the measurement sample prepared from the sample and the at least one of the plurality of reagents held by the reagent holder; and
controlling the display to display a reagent management screen including a predetermined display area showing the obtained at least one measurable number of times with a corresponding measurement item, a second display area showing a plurality of reagent marks identifying positions of each of the plurality of reagents in the reagent holder, the second display area being separate from the predetermined display area, and a third display area for displaying detailed information which includes the remaining amount information of a reagent corresponding to one of first and second reagent marks displayed in the second display area,
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Assignees

• Kondou Keitarou
• Matsuo Naohiko
• Sysmex Corp

Inventors

• Kondou Keitarou
• Matsuo Naohiko

Classifications

• G01N2035/00891

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