PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic preparation device for blood-collecting tubes, constituted so as not to erroneously recognize the housing position of a blood-collecting tube by a control unit even if a blood-collecting tube housing case is set to any housing place.SOLUTION: The automatic preparation device for blood-collecting tubes has a blood-collecting tube housing means having a plurality of detachable blood-collecting tube housing cases, a transfer means, a label printing and pasting means, a discharge means, a blood-collecting tube recovery mechanism and the control unit for controlling the operation of the respective means. Further, a discrimination means capable of reading the discrimination data of the blood-collecting tube housing cases are provided to the respective blood-collecting tube housing cases, and a reading means for reading the discrimination data from the discrimination means provided to the respective blood-collecting tube housing cases are provided to the blood-collecting tube housing means. The discrimination data of the individual blood-collecting tube housing cases and the discrimination data of the blood-collecting tubes housed in the blood-collecting tube housing cases are preliminarily related to each other to be stored in a control means and the control means is constituted so as to recognize the housing place of the blood-collecting tubes on the basis of the discrimination data of the blood-collecting tube housing cases read by the reading means.COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT【課題】 採血管収容ケースをどの収容場所に入れても、制御装置が採血管の収容位置を誤認識することがない採血管自動準備装置を提供すること。【解決手段】 本発明に係る採血管自動準備装置は、着脱可能な複数の採血管収容ケースを有する採血管収容手段、移送手段、ラベル印字貼付手段、排出手段、採血管回収機構及び各手段の動作を制御する制御装置を有する採血管自動準備装置において、各採血管収容ケースに、ケースの識別情報を有する読み取り可能な識別手段を設け、採血管収容手段に各採血管収容ケースに設けられた識別手段から識別情報を読み取る読み取り手段を設け、前記制御手段に、予め、個々の採血管収容ケースの識別情報と、その採血管収容ケースに収容される採血管の識別情報とを関連付けして記憶させ、該制御手段が、前記読み取り手段で読み取った採血管収容ケースの識別情報に基づいて採血管の収容場所を認識するように構成したことを特徴とする。【選択図】 図9
