Apparatus for automatic analysis of samples on gel cards
AssigneeGrifols, S.A.
InventorMarc Pellicer Sancho
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Abstract
The apparatus comprises a single transportable structure provided with several separate compartments located in a vertical stack within a cabinet, with means for the vertical transport of gel cards, means for the transport of units for moving the cards and pipetting probes, being displaceable to the entire transverse cross-section of the compartments in at least two of the vertical compartments or floors through moving along coordinate axes X, Y, Z at right-angles, and control means so that automatic functioning can take place simultaneously with manual actions to load and unload the necessary materials (samples, reagents, cards, wash solutions and waste solutions) in a random manner.
Claims20
An apparatus for the automatic analysis of samples on gel cards, comprising compartments superimposed in a single cabinet, each compartment having a floor, a heating and lifting assembly comprising a heater electrically connected by a flexible connection and configured to displace said gel cards between at least two of the compartments, and having in at least one of the compartments a card transport unit configured to displace said gel cards along the entire transverse cross-section wherein movement of said gel cards is effected by a control computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.