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US 2019/0099765 A1Published application
Rotor plate and bucket assembly and method for using same
AssigneeLife Technologies Corporation
InventorsKristopher BARBEE, Rui ZHENG, Sean MCCUSKER
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Abstract
A rotor assembly includes a rotor plate to rotate around a first axis; a bucket rotatably attached to the rotor plate and to rotate around a second axis; and a stop plate to rotate around the first axis relative to the rotor plate between an open position and a closed position, when in the closed position, the stop plate is to engage the bucket to fix an angular position of the bucket relative to a plane of rotation of the rotor assembly.
Claims6
A method of loading a sensor array assembly, the method comprising:
- applying a solution to a sensor array assembly disposed in a bucket of a rotor assembly when a stop plate of the rotor assembly is in a closed position;
- moving the stop plate to an open position;
- spinning the rotor assembly, the bucket rotating to a positive angle relative to a plane of rotation of the rotor assembly;
- moving the stop plate to the closed position;
- and
- spinning the rotor assembly, the bucket rotating to a horizontal or negative angle relative to the plane of rotation of the rotor assembly.
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A method of configuring a rotor assembly, the method comprising:
- inserting a tip into a ring of a stop plate of the rotor assembly, the tip preventing the stop plate from moving;
- rotating a rotor plate of the rotor assembly relative to the stop plate;
- and
- removing the tip from the ring.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.