Automatable temperature-control apparatus

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus (1) for controlling the temperature of a sample carrier (2), and to an automatable laboratory workplace comprising an apparatus (1) according to the invention. The apparatus comprises a heating device (2) having a heater (3) and a movable heating cover (6), which is arranged over the receiving region of the heater (3) and is designed to press the sample carrier (4) in a heating position (H) into the receiving region (3a) of the heater (3) with a predefinable contact pressure, and a transport device (8), which is designed to introduce the sample carrier (3) into the apparatus (1) from an insertion position (E) outside the apparatus (1). According to the invention, the transport device (8) comprises a loading unit (9), which comprises a receiving unit (10) for receiving the sample carrier (4) and is movable between an insertion position (E) and an intermediate position (Z), in which the sample carrier (4) is situated inside the apparatus (1) and above the receiving region (3a) of the heater (3). The transport device (8) is arranged and/or designed in such a way that at least the sample carrier (4) is movable from the intermediate position (Z) into the heating position (H) by means of a movement of the heating cover (6). In addition, the transport device (8) comprises at least one return element (11), which is designed to move at least the sample carrier (4) from the heating position (H) back into the intermediate position (Z).

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