Cartridge with a rotatable lid

US10086373B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Christoph Boehm · Viernheim, DE
• Sascha Lutz · Neustadt, DE
• Juergen Spinke · Lorsch, DE
• Thorsten Brueckner · Schriesheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 16, 2016
• Grant date: Oct 2, 2018
• Expiry date: Nov 16, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2035/0449
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automatic analyzer cartridge, spinnable around a rotational axis, has a support structure with a front face perpendicular to the rotational axis, a fluidic structure for processing a biological sample into the processed biological sample, a measurement structure with at least one detection zone on the front face, and a rotatable lid covering the front face. The rotatable lid is rotatable about the rotational axis relative to the support structure from a first position relative to the support structure to a second position relative to the support structure. The rotatable lid has a sample inlet opening and a detection zone opening. In the first position, a sample inlet is aligned with the sample inlet opening and the measurement structure is covered by the rotatable lid. In the second position, the sample inlet is covered by the rotatable lid and the measurement structure is aligned with the detection zone opening.