公开(公告)号：US20240198347A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-20

申请号：US18532264

申请日：2023-12-07

申请人： Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

发明人： Daniel Mueller ,  Claudio Cherubini ,  Dirk Abeln ,  Reto Huesser ,  Marko Simic ,  Nenad Milicevic ,  Michael Zeder

IPC分类号： B01L9/00 ,  B01L9/06 ,  G01N35/00

CPC分类号： B01L9/50 ,  B01L9/06 ,  G01N35/00584 ,  B01L2200/025 ,  B01L2200/0689 ,  B01L2300/041 ,  B01L2300/12

摘要： The present invention relates to an instrument for automatically removing sealing covers from sample vessels (and/or for automatically sealing or resealing sample vessels with sealing covers, the instrument comprising a vessel holder for holding a sample vessel, and a suction/induction device comprising a suction member for holding a sealing cover, and an induction member comprising at least one induction coil, with the suction/induction device and the vessel holder being arranged in an axially movable manner with regard to each other, and, in use, the at least one induction coil is arranged above a bottom of the suction member. In addition, the present invention relates to a laboratory automation system comprising such instrument as well as a plurality of pre-analytical, analytical and/or post-analytical stations, and also relates to a method of automatically removing sealing covers from sample vessels and a method of automatically sealing or resealing sample vessels with sealing covers.