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Photometric reading device for serological analysis

US4762420A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 25, 1987
Grant dateAug 9, 1988
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Expiry dateMar 25, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N2201/0621
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A photometric reading device comprises a plurality of reading elements (30), each comprising a light emitting diode and a corresponding photodiode on opposing sides of a sample pathway along which a sample microplate (10) can travel. The microplate (10) includes rows of sample wells arranged transverse to the line of relative motion of the microplate (10) and the reading elements (30). The reading elements (30) are arranged such that, during continuous relative motion of the reading elements (30) and the microplate (10), the reading elements (30) come into registration sequentially with the wells in the first row of wells in the microplate (10), then with the wells in the second row of wells, and so on.

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