Closure appliance for reagent containers

US6866820B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Dade Behring Marburg GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Ralf Otto · Wiesbaden, DE
• Hugo Wilmes · Bad Soden, DE
• Hans D. Sanger · Frankfurt am Main, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 18, 2000
• Grant date: Mar 15, 2005
• Expiry date: Apr 18, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/2575
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to an appliance for opening and closing a reagent-container stopper in a partially or fully automatic analysis apparatus, and to the method, which is applied by means of this appliance, for opening and closing a reagent-container stopper in a partially or fully automatic analysis appliance.