Sample tube holder
    8.
    发明授权
    Sample tube holder 有权
    样品管架

    公开(公告)号:US07910067B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-03-22

    申请号:US11379205

    申请日:2006-04-18

    IPC分类号: B01L9/06

    摘要: A sample tube holder having sample tube compartments with sets of spaced finger springs provided therein for maintaining sample tubes in substantially upright orientations. A guide structure having a series of openings is used to direct sample tubes into the sample tube compartments and to restrict lateral movement of sample tubes held thereby. A retainer is releasably engaged by the guide structure and has openings sized to provide access to sample tubes held by the sample tube compartments but which restrict vertical movement of the sample tubes. Tabs at a base of the sample tube holder and hold-downs fixed to a stationary structure adjacent a conveyor cooperate to restrict vertical movement of the sample tube holder during automated sampling procedures.

    摘要翻译: 样品管架,其具有样品管隔室,其中设置有间隔的指状弹簧,用于将样品管保持在基本上直立的取向。 具有一系列开口的引导结构用于将样品管引导到样品管隔室中并且限制由此保持的样品管的横向移动。 保持器由引导结构可释放地接合并且具有尺寸设置成提供对由样品管隔室保持的样品管进入但限制样品管的垂直运动的开口。 在样品管支架的基部处的突片和固定到邻近输送机的固定结构的压紧器协调,以限制在自动采样过程中样品管支架的垂直运动。

    Drip shield
    10.
    发明授权
    Drip shield 有权
    滴水盾

    公开(公告)号:US07763467B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-07-27

    申请号:US11673903

    申请日:2007-02-12

    申请人: Byron J. Knight

    发明人: Byron J. Knight

    IPC分类号: G01N35/10 G01N1/02

    摘要: A drip shield includes cover members that define a protective canopy over sample receptacles to prevent unwanted material from being deposited into the receptacles. The cover members cooperate to define at least one access hole through the drip shield to permit access to a sample receptacle by a pipette tip through the access hole. One of the cover members is moveable with respect to another cover member between a closed stated defining the access hole and an open state permitting a pipette tip extending through the access hole to be laterally conveyed relative to the drip shield and out of the access hole. In a preferred embodiment, a system control feature automatically determines if a pipette tip might have been left in a sample receptacle and extending through the access hole of the drip shield and thereby cause the sample receptacle and pipette tip to be conveyed laterally relative to the drip shield while the one cover member moves from the closed to the open state to permit the pipette tip to be conveyed out of the access hole.

    摘要翻译: 滴水屏蔽件包括盖构件,其在样品容器上限定保护罩,以防止不想要的材料沉积到容器中。 盖构件协作以限定穿过滴水屏蔽的至少一个进入孔,以允许通过移液管尖端通过进入孔进入样品容器。 盖构件中的一个可相对于另一盖构件在关闭状态限定出入孔和打开状态之间移动,打开状态允许延伸穿过进入孔的移液管尖端相对于滴水屏被横向输送并且进出通路孔。 在优选实施例中,系统控制特征自动地确定移液管尖端是否可能已经留在样品容器中并且延伸穿过滴水屏蔽的进入孔,从而使样品容器和移液管尖端相对于滴液横向输送 屏蔽,同时一个盖构件从关闭状态移动到打开状态,以允许移液管尖端从进入孔传出。