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公开(公告)号：US20240391705A1
公开(公告)日：2024-11-28
申请号：US18793558
申请日：2024-08-02
Applicant: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATED
Inventor： Rolf SILBERT
Abstract: A sample receptacle transporting carrier includes a base defining a recess for receiving a bottom end of the sample receptacle. The carrier also includes a plurality of resilient wire fingers affixed to and extending upward from the annular support. The fingers are configured to retain the bottom end of the sample receptacle within the recess of the base and to maintain the sample receptacle in an upright orientation. Each of the wire fingers includes a first segment adjacent to the base, a linear second segment joined to the first segment by a first angled portion, and a linear third segment joined to the second linear segment by a second angled portion. The third segment length is greater than the second segment length. The third segment of each finger is configured to contact the bottom end of the receptacle as the receptacle is inserted into the carrier. And the third segment and the vertical axis of the carrier form an angle between about 40° and about 50°.
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公开(公告)号：US20240168043A1
公开(公告)日：2024-05-23
申请号：US18429170
申请日：2024-01-31
Applicant: Gen-Probe Incorporated
Inventor： Rolf SILBERT , HongRan PENG , David Aaron BUSE , David H. COMBS
CPC classification number: G01N35/04 , B01L3/5453 , B01L9/06 , B65G43/08 , B65G47/902 , G01N35/00584 , G01N35/0099 , G01N35/1079 , B01L2300/021 , B65G2201/0235 , B65G2203/044 , G01N2035/00752 , G01N2035/0406 , G01N2035/0494 , G01N2035/103
Abstract: A receptacle delivery system for an instrument includes a carriage, a puck supported by the carriage, and a first shelf. The carriage is configured to move from a first location of the instrument to a second location of the instrument. The puck is configured to removably support a receptacle such that a longitudinal axis of the receptacle is substantially coincident with a vertical axis of the puck. The first shelf comprises (a) a base extending substantially transverse to the vertical axis of the puck and (b) a first opening defined by the base, and when the carriage is positioned at the second location, the longitudinal axis of a receptacle seated in the puck extends through the first opening.
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公开(公告)号：US20220349910A1
公开(公告)日：2022-11-03
申请号：US17608745
申请日：2020-04-29
Applicant: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATED
Inventor： Rolf SILBERT , HongRan PENG , David Aaron BUSE , David H. COMBS
Abstract: A receptacle delivery system includes a carriage configured to move from a first to a second location of an instrument. The carriage may be configured to removably support a receptacle and may include a receptacle clamping mechanism. The receptacle mechanism may be configured to apply a clamping force to the receptacle as the carriage moves from the first to the second location and release the clamping force as the carriage moves from the second to the first location.
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公开(公告)号：US20220207254A1
公开(公告)日：2022-06-30
申请号：US17694436
申请日：2022-03-14
Applicant: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATED
Inventor： Norbert D. HAGEN , David OPALSKY , Rolf SILBERT
Abstract: Method and associated system for reading machine-readable labels on a plurality of sample receptacles held by a sample rack. In the method, a machine-readable label associated each of the plurality of sample receptacles is read with a first label reader when the rack is at a first location. The sample rack is then moved from the first location to a second location, where a rack identifier on the sample rack is sensed with a sensor separate from the first label reader. Finally, the rack identifier is associated with the machine-readable labels of the plurality of sample receptacles.
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公开(公告)号：US20210132098A1
公开(公告)日：2021-05-06
申请号：US17129522
申请日：2020-12-21
Applicant: Gen-Probe Incorporated
Inventor： Rolf SILBERT , David OPALSKY , David Aaron BUSE , Robert J. ROSATI , Olev TAMMER , Richard CAPELLA , Matthias MERTEN
Abstract: A sample processing station includes two or more container holders on a platform that is rotatable about a central axis of rotation. Each holder is configured to rotate about a secondary axis of rotation. The station includes a capping/decapping mechanism to cap or decap a container held in one of the container holders and an elevator with a chuck guide that contact the container holder as the chuck is lowered by the elevator to position the chuck with respect to the cap of the container held in the holder and to hold jaws of the container holder in a closed position. In embodiment, the chuck guide includes a yoke with opposed arms and spindles located near distal ends of the arms that engage beveled shoulders of the container holder.
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公开(公告)号：US20210061584A1
公开(公告)日：2021-03-04
申请号：US17003754
申请日：2020-08-26
Applicant: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATED
Inventor： Rolf SILBERT
Abstract: A sample receptacle transporting carrier includes a base defining a recess for receiving a bottom end of the sample receptacle. The carrier also includes a plurality of resilient wire fingers affixed to and extending upward from the annular support. The fingers are configured to retain the bottom end of the sample receptacle within the recess of the base and to maintain the sample receptacle in an upright orientation. Each of the wire fingers includes a first segment adjacent to the base, a linear second segment joined to the first segment by a first angled portion, and a linear third segment joined to the second linear segment by a second angled portion. The third segment of each finger is configured to contact the bottom end of the receptacle as the receptacle is inserted into the carrier. The third segment and the vertical axis of the carrier form an angle between about 40° and about 50°.
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公开(公告)号：US20170160218A1
公开(公告)日：2017-06-08
申请号：US15440806
申请日：2017-02-23
Applicant: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATED
Inventor： David OPALSKY , Norbert D. HAGEN , Rolf SILBERT , Sean S. CHIU , Haitao LI
CPC classification number: G01N25/04 , B01L7/5255 , B01L9/06 , B01L2200/028 , B01L2300/0627 , B01L2300/1827 , G01N21/6428 , G01N2021/6432 , G01N2021/6439
Abstract: The present disclosure provides apparatus, systems, and methods for conducting rapid, accurate, and consistent heated amplifications and/or thermal melt analyses.
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18.发明申请公开(公告)号：US20170052205A1
公开(公告)日：2017-02-23
申请号：US15222173
申请日：2016-07-28
Applicant: Gen-Probe Incorporated
Inventor： Rolf SILBERT
CPC classification number: G01N35/04 , G01N35/0099 , G01N35/026 , G01N35/10 , G01N35/109 , G01N2035/0412 , G01N2035/0491 , G01N2035/0496
Abstract: An automated instrument for processing a sample includes a first lock configured to move between a locked configuration and an unlocked configuration. The first lock is configured to be engaged with a first movable holding structure in the locked configuration to secure the first holding structure within the automated instrument. The first lock is configured to be disengaged from the first holding structure in the unlocked configuration to allow movement of the first holding structure within the automated instrument. The automated instrument also includes a robotic arm movable within the automated instrument and configured to move the first lock between the locked configuration and the unlocked configuration. The first holding structure is configured to hold a sample processing device and configured to move within the automated instrument when the first lock is in the unlocked configuration. The robotic arm can also be configured to move the sample processing device within the system.
Abstract translation: 用于处理样品的自动化仪器包括被配置为在锁定配置和解锁配置之间移动的第一锁。 第一锁定构造成与处于锁定构造的第一可移动保持结构接合以将第一保持结构固定在自动化仪器内。 第一锁定构造成在解锁构造中与第一保持结构脱离接合以允许第一保持结构在自动化仪器内移动。 自动化仪器还包括可在自动化仪器内移动的机器臂，并配置成在锁定配置和解锁配置之间移动第一锁。 第一保持结构被配置为保持样本处理设备并且被配置为当第一锁定处于解锁配置时在自动仪器内移动。 机器人手臂还可以被配置成移动系统内的样品处理装置。
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公开(公告)号：US20240426857A1
公开(公告)日：2024-12-26
申请号：US18830349
申请日：2024-09-10
Applicant: Gen-Probe Incorporated
Inventor： Rolf SILBERT , HongRan PENG
Abstract: A jig assembly for connecting first and second consoles with predefined relative positioning includes first and second positioning pins attached or attachable to the first console and a positioning connection bracket attached or attachable to the second console and including a longitudinal span and first and second transverse legs including first and second pin recesses at respective free ends thereof. The first and second pin recesses receive the first and second positioning pins, respectively, when the first and second consoles are moved laterally toward each other. The first and second transverse legs may be attached to the first console with a first and second leg attachment brackets, respectively. The first and second positing pins and the first and second leg attachment brackets may be fixed with respect to the first console by attachment to a mounting rail that is fixed to the first console.
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20.发明公开公开(公告)号：US20240327121A1
公开(公告)日：2024-10-03
申请号：US18578632
申请日：2022-07-13
Applicant: Gen-Probe Incorporated
Inventor： Rolf SILBERT
CPC classification number: B65G1/1373 , B65G1/0464 , B65G2201/0235
Abstract: Sample receptacles are automatically transferred from first and second storage areas of a storage module to a conveyor without passing over any other sample receptacle stored in the storage module. Receptacle holding positions in the first and second storage areas are arranged in rows and columns, and sample containers are transferred row-by-row or column-by-column, starting with sample container held closest to a first side of the first or second storage area. Receptacles transferred from the first storage area are transferred across the first side to the conveyor. Receptacles transferred from the second storage area are transferred across the first side into a first receptacle transport path between the first and second storage areas, and then to a second receptacle transport path across the first storage area, and then to the conveyor. To avoid passing a receptacle over another receptacle, receptacles are first removed from intervening holding positions between a respective holding position from which the receptacle is being transferred and the first side of the first or second storage area.
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