Method and system for an automated microbial monitoring process in an isolator
AssigneeGroninger & Co. GmbH
InventorsArmin Merz, Roland Engelhard
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Abstract
A method for automated microbial monitoring in an isolator having a transfer lock, the method comprising the steps: first providing at least one nutrient medium carrier holder at, in each case, a first position within the isolator; second providing at least one nutrient medium carrier within the transfer lock; first robot-assisted transferring of an individual nutrient medium carrier from the transfer lock to a free nutrient medium carrier holder; and first robot-assisted placing of the transferred nutrient medium carrier in the free nutrient medium carrier holder. Further, a system for automated microbial monitoring in an isolator and a computer program are also disclosed.
Claims21
A method for automated microbial monitoring in an isolator, the isolator having a transfer lock, the method comprising the following steps:
- first providing of at least one nutrient medium carrier holder at in each case a first position within the isolator;
- second providing of at least one nutrient medium carrier within the transfer lock;
- first robot-assisted transferring of an individual nutrient medium carrier of the at least one nutrient medium carrier from the transfer lock to a free nutrient medium carrier holder of the at least one nutrient medium carrier holder, wherein the first robot-assisted transferring step transfers the individual nutrient medium carrier one at a time;
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- first robot-assisted placing of the transferred nutrient medium carrier in the free nutrient medium carrier holder.
A system for automated microbial monitoring in an isolator, wherein the system has the isolator, at least one nutrient medium carrier holder, a robot arranged in the isolator, and a control device, wherein the isolator has a transfer lock, wherein at least one nutrient medium carrier is provided in the transfer lock, wherein the nutrient medium carrier holder is arranged at a first position within the isolator, wherein the robot has an end effector for handling a nutrient medium carrier and a support structure for supporting the end effector, wherein the support structure is configured to move the end effector in the isolator, wherein the end effector is configured to grip the nutrient medium carrier, and wherein the control device is configured to carry out the following steps:
- first robot-assisted transferring of in each case an individual nutrient medium carrier of the at least one nutrient medium carrier from the transfer lock to a free nutrient medium carrier holder of the at least one nutrient medium carrier holder, wherein the first robot-assisted transferring step transfers the individual nutrient medium carrier one at a time;
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- first robot-assisted placing of the transferred nutrient medium carrier in the free nutrient medium carrier holder.
A computer program with a program code which is configured, when executed in the control device of a system for automated microbial monitoring in an isolator, wherein the system has the isolator, at least one nutrient medium carrier holder, a robot arranged in the isolator, and the control device, wherein the isolator has a transfer lock, wherein at least one nutrient medium carrier is provided in the transfer lock, wherein the nutrient medium carrier holder is arranged at a first position within the isolator, wherein the robot has an end effector for handling a nutrient medium carrier and a support structure for supporting the end effector, wherein the support structure is configured to move the end effector in the isolator, wherein the end effector is configured to grip the nutrient medium carrier, to carry out the following steps:
- first robot-assisted transferring of an individual nutrient medium carrier of the at least one nutrient medium carrier from the transfer lock to a free nutrient medium carrier holder of the at least one nutrient medium carrier holder, wherein the first robot-assisted transferring step transfers the individual nutrient medium carrier one at a time;
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- first robot-assisted placing of the transferred nutrient medium carrier in the free nutrient medium carrier holder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.