JPS5589753A - Intermittent carrier - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To enable to measure the enzyme reaction speed continuously under the same test conditions, by setting the specified conditions between the number of sample holders provided with the intermittent rotary unit and the number of times when the sample passes through the optical system detector.

CONSTITUTION: The unit provides the intermittent rotary unit 1 having p sets of holders 3, and the unit 8 providing the insertion cam 4 of the cell 2 provided in adjacency to the unit 1 and the removal cam 5, radiating light from the light source 8a to the cell 2 when the cell 2 is intermittently fed toward the direction of revolution of the unit 1 and outputting the signal corresponding with the detection of the amount of light transmitted at the photo detector 8d. Further, the number p of the holders 3 and the number of times k when the cell 2 passes through the unit 8 have the relation of p=nk±1 (where: n is a natural number, k≥2, and p=k+1 at n=1), and the insertion period of the cell 2 to the unit 1 and the period of removal are determined k times the intermittent feed period of the unit 1. As a result, the continuous test of sample can be made.

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