Abstract
This patent application has not been assigned to a company or institution.The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion suppliedby the inventors: “Conventionally, various reagents or samples hav e been mainly manually conveyed toand loaded into an automatic analyzer that an alyzes blood. In this case, the sample may be touchedby a human being, thereby causing an infectious risk. In addition, when the reagent is touched by thehuma n being, a risk of mixing an organic substance derived from the human being into the reagent iscaused. Accordingly, Patent Literature 1 discloses a technique f or conveying the reagent or the sample bya self-traveling conveying robot.”