Device with sample temperature adjustment function
AssigneeShimadzu Corporation
InventorsKoki Miyazaki, Shinji Tanaka
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Abstract
A device includes a sample rack having a mounting region for mounting a sample plate that holds a sample, a housing in which a temperature adjustment space for adjusting a temperature of the sample plate mounted on the sample rack while accommodating the sample rack inside is provided therein, and the housing having, in a lateral surface, a rack insertion opening through which the sample rack is inserted into the temperature adjustment space; and an air temperature adjustment part having an air intake port for taking in air in the temperature adjustment space, a temperature adjustment element for cooling or heating air taken in from the air intake portion, and an outlet for blowing out air cooled or heated by the temperature adjustment element.
Claims8
A device comprising:
- a sample rack having a mounting region for mounting a sample plate that holds a sample;
- a housing in which a temperature adjustment space for adjusting a temperature of the sample plate mounted on the sample rack while accommodating the sample rack inside is provided therein, and the housing having, in a lateral surface, a rack insertion opening through which the sample rack is inserted into the temperature adjustment space;
- and
- an air temperature adjustment part having an air intake portion for taking in air in the temperature adjustment space, a temperature adjustment element for cooling or heating air taken in from the air intake portion, and an outlet for blowing out air cooled or heated by the temperature adjustment element, wherein
- an air passage through which air flows is formed between a bottom surface of the mounting region of the sample rack and a floor surface of the temperature adjustment space when the sample rack is inserted into the temperature adjustment space through the rack insertion opening and is accommodated in the temperature adjustment space, the air passage has a width in a height direction narrower than that of the outlet of the air temperature adjustment part,
- the air temperature adjustment part is configured so that air blown out from the outlet is directly introduced from one end side of the sample rack into the air passage formed between the bottom surface of the mounting region of the sample rack and the floor surface of the temperature adjustment space,
- and the device is configured so that the air introduced into the air passage flows from one end of the mounting region of the sample rack to the other end through the air passage.
A device comprising:
- a sample rack having a mounting region for mounting a sample plate that holds a sample;
- a temperature adjustment space for adjusting a temperature of the sample plate mounted on the sample rack while accommodating the sample rack inside;
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- an air temperature adjustment part having an air intake portion for taking in air in the temperature adjustment space, a temperature adjustment element for cooling or heating air taken in from the air intake portion, and an outlet for blowing out air cooled or heated by the temperature adjustment element, wherein
- an air passage through which air flows is formed between a bottom surface of the mounting region of the sample rack and a floor surface of the temperature adjustment space in a state where the sample rack is accommodated in the temperature adjustment space,
- the device is configured so that air blown out from the outlet of the air temperature adjustment part is directly introduced into the air passage between the bottom surface of the mounting region of the sample rack accommodated in the temperature adjustment space and the floor surface of the temperature adjustment space, and the air flows from one end of the mounting region of the sample rack to the other end through the air passage, and
- at least one opening is provided in the mounting region of the sample rack so that air flowing through the air passage comes into contact with a bottom surface of the sample plate mounted on the mounting region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.