Apparatus and method for washing clinical apparatus

US5610069A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Abbott Laboratories · US

Inventors

• Frederick L. Clark · Plano, US
• Kendall B. Hendrick · Tucson, US
• Richard R. Martin · Tulsa, US
• Larry W. Moore · Plano, US
• William J. Raymoure · Antioch, US
• Paul R. Schrier · Carrollton, US
• Edna S. Walker · Chicago, US
• Donny R. Walker · Coppell, US
• Gary E. Winter · Bartlett, US
• Kevin M. Cloonan · Round Lake, US
• David Arthur Yost · Los Altos, US
• John M. Clemens · Carlsbad, US
• William J. Kanewske, III · Dallas, US
• Douglas D. McDowell · Wildwood, US
• Carl M. Oleksak · Fort Worth, US
• William D. Rumbaugh · Carrollton, US
• B. Jane Smith · Vernon Hills, US
• James A. Vaught · Euless, US
• Apparao Tayi · Grayslake, US
• Robert A. Wohlford · Irving, US
• James E. Mitchell · Lake Barrington, US
• Robert B. Hance · Evanston, US
• Peter A. Lagocki · Paddy Lane, US
• Richard A. Merriam · Dallas, US
• Charles D. Pennington · Lake Zurich, US
• Linda S. Schmidt · Mundelein, US
• Adrian M. Spronk · Lindenhurst, US
• Richard L. Vickstrom · Algonquin, US
• William E. Watkins, III · South 375th Place, US
• Gilbert Clift · Mesquite, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 27, 1995
• Grant date: Mar 11, 1997
• Expiry date: Oct 27, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/12
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method and apparatus for washing clinical apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus is a device for washing clinical apparatus, wherein the clinical apparatus is employed, at different times, to contain a first test substance during a first testing step and a second test substance during a second testing step subsequent to the first testing step. The apparatus comprises a device for supplying a wash solution to the apparatus, and for varying the quantity of the wash solution supplied to the apparatus. The apparatus further comprises a control unit for controlling the device for varying quantity to vary the quantity of the wash solution in proportion to the potential for contamination between the first test substance and the second test substance contained in the apparatus.