A highly-reliable, inexpensive and small-sized automatic analyzer is provided which can eliminate the need of an additional space for piercing a seal of a reagent bottle and can prevent a deviation of a reagent sampling nozzle from the position of a pierced hole. A piercing tool for piercing the seal...http://www.google.com/patents/US7625524?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7625524 - Automatic analyzer