Device for mixing a liquid sample
AssigneeSiemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products GmbH
InventorsAchim Herz, Thorsten Michels, Holger Pufahl, Joerg Schmiedeskamp, Alexander Wiedekind-Klein
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Abstract
A device and a process for mixing a liquid sample in an automated analysis instrument comprises a support arm, a holder for a liquid container, a flexible intermediate element, arranged between the support arm and the holder for the liquid container, a shaking apparatus, and a coupling apparatus arranged on the holder for the liquid container, wherein the coupling apparatus can establish a detachable connection between the shaking apparatus and the holder for the liquid container.
Claims20
A device for mixing a liquid sample, having
- a) a support arm,
- b) a holder for a liquid container,
- c) at least one flexible intermediate element, arranged between the support arm and the holder for the liquid container,
- d) a shaking apparatus, and
- e) a coupling apparatus arranged on the holder for the liquid container,
- wherein the coupling apparatus can establish a detachable connection between the shaking apparatus and the holder for the liquid container.
An automated analysis instrument for treating, manipulating and analyzing at least one of chemical and biological samples, having a device comprising:
- a) a support arm,
- b) a holder for a liquid container,
- c) at least one flexible intermediate element, arranged between the support arm and the holder for the liquid container,
- d) a shaking apparatus, and
- e) a coupling apparatus arranged on the holder for the liquid container,
- wherein the coupling apparatus can establish a detachable connection between the shaking apparatus and the holder for the liquid container.
A process for mixing a liquid sample, comprising:
- a) holding a liquid container containing the liquid sample by means of a holder,
- b) coupling the holder to a shaking apparatus by means of a coupling apparatus,
- c) mixing the liquid sample,
- d) decoupling the holder from the shaking apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.