Adjustment system
AssigneeSiemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products GmbH
InventorsKlaus Anderle, Matthias Korn
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Abstract
A method for adjusting a transfer apparatus fastened to a robotically displaceable transfer arm and comprising a holder for a liquid vessel in an automated analysis machine, by way of measuring a first and second force effect on the holder with the aid of a sensor, wherein, if the measured force effects do not deviate from one another by more than a predetermined amount, the transfer apparatus is sufficiently adjusted in respect of a receiving position, and wherein, if the measured force effects deviate from one another by more than a predetermined amount, an adjustment of the transfer apparatus in respect of the receiving position is carried out.
Claims16
A method for adjusting a transfer apparatus fastened to a robotically displaceable transfer arm and comprising a holder for a liquid vessel in an automated analysis machine, wherein the transfer apparatus is configured to be moved with the aid of the transfer arm, comprising the following steps:
- (a) receiving a liquid vessel in the holder,
- (b) measuring a first force effect on the holder with the liquid vessel received in the holder with the aid of a sensor,
- (c) displacing the liquid vessel into a predetermined position at a predetermined level in a receiving position for the liquid vessel with the aid of the robotically displaceable transfer arm and measuring a second force effect on the holder with the liquid vessel received in the receiving position with the aid of the sensor, and
- (d) comparing the first and second force effects measured in step (b) and step (c),
- wherein, if the first and second force effects measured in step (b) and step (c) do not deviate from one another by more than a first predetermined amount, the transfer apparatus is sufficiently adjusted in respect of the receiving position, and
- wherein, if the first and second force effects measured in step (b) and step (c) deviate from one another by more than the first predetermined amount, an adjustment of the transfer apparatus in respect of the receiving position is carried out.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.