Photometric reading device for serological analysis
AssigneeFisons Limited
InventorAlan R. Bowley
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Abstract
A photometric reading device comprises a plurality of reading elements (30), each comprising a light emitting diode and a corresponding photodiode on opposing sides of a sample pathway along which a sample microplate (10) can travel. The microplate (10) includes rows of sample wells arranged transverse to the line of relative motion of the microplate (10) and the reading elements (30). The reading elements (30) are arranged such that, during continuous relative motion of the reading elements (30) and the microplate (10), the reading elements (30) come into registration sequentially with the wells in the first row of wells in the microplate (10), then with the wells in the second row of wells, and so on.
Claims10
A photometric reading device comprising
- a plurality of reading elements;
- and
- means of bringing about continuous motion relative to said reading elements of first and second rows of samples arranged transverse to the direction of relative motion,
- said reading elements being arranged to come into registration during said relative motion sequentially with the samples in the first row of samples and thereafter with the samples in the second row of samples.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.