公开(公告)号：US20230258671A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-17

申请号：US18168679

申请日：2023-02-14

Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Markus Kollmer ,  Yanis Ali Mahmoud ,  Michael Rein ,  Teodor Laurentiu Vasile

IPC: G01N35/00

CPC classification number: G01N35/00732 ,  G01N2035/00742 ,  G01N2035/00752

Abstract: A laboratory system, comprising: at least one rack comprising retainers, wherein the rack is adapted to carry laboratory sample containers inserted in the retainers, a handling device, wherein the handling device is adapted to insert sample containers in the retainers or remove containers from the retainers being placed at a processing position depending on location information indicating the location of the rack being placed at the processing position relative to the handling device, a plurality of teaching devices, wherein a respective teaching device is insertable into a retainer of the rack, and wherein at least two teaching devices are inserted into a corresponding retainer of the rack being placed at the processing position, and a location information calculating device, wherein the calculating device is adapted to calculate the location information of the rack being placed at the processing position depending on the location of the at least two teaching devices.

公开(公告)号：US20230373107A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-23

申请号：US18299750

申请日：2023-04-13

Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Avinash Addihalli Narayana ,  Timo Gutmann ,  Markus Kollmer ,  Marius Kraetschmer ,  Andrii Kulitskyi ,  Vladimirs Leontjevs ,  Jan Pauls

IPC: B25J15/08 ,  B25J15/00

CPC classification number: B25J15/083 ,  B25J15/0095

Abstract: A gripping apparatus for gripping a sample container comprising: a gripper body comprising a gripper actuator; at least two gripper fingers each comprising a gripping surface, wherein at least one of the gripper fingers is movably coupled to the gripper body, and wherein the gripping apparatus is designed for gripping a sample container with the gripping surfaces of the at least two gripper fingers by moving the at least one movable gripper finger; and characterized in that the gripping apparatus comprises at least one elastically mounted contacting surface for elastically contacting a sample container about to be gripped by the gripping apparatus.