公开(公告)号：US20140342465A1

公开(公告)日：2014-11-20

申请号：US14271550

申请日：2014-05-07

Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Joerg Haechler ,  Florian Schindler ,  Georgios Spitadakis

IPC: G01N1/28

CPC classification number: G01N35/04 ,  G01N35/0092 ,  G01N2035/00326 ,  G01N2035/0462 ,  Y10T436/25

Abstract: A new laboratory automated system comprising a plurality of work cells coupled to a conveyor and a method for processing sample tubes are disclosed, both of which enable a system to maintain the maximum overall throughput regardless of the number and throughput of the individual work cells and regardless of the frequency at which sample tubes are loaded into the system. This is achieved by a sample buffer module coupled to the conveyor, the sample buffer module being in common to the plurality of work cells, and by a sample workflow manager configured to dispatch sample tubes from the sample buffer module to the work cells via the conveyor with a frequency for each work cell, which is equal to the sample processing throughput of each respective work cell.

Abstract translation: 公开了一种新的实验室自动化系统，其包括耦合到输送机的多个工作单元和用于处理样品管的方法，这两者都使得系统能够维持最大总体生产量，而不管各个工作单元的数量和生产量如何 样品管装入系统的频率。 这通过与输送机相连的样本缓冲模块来实现，该样本缓冲模块与多个工作单元共用，以及由样本工作流程管理器构成，用于通过输送机将样品管从样品缓冲模块分配到工作单元 具有每个工作单元的频率，其等于每个相应工作单元的样本处理吞吐量。