Automatic pipetting and analyzing device

US7541001B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Cybio AG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Kraemer · Stuttgart, DE
• Frank Tempel · Jena, DE
• Thomas Moore · Jena, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 23, 2005
• Grant date: Jun 2, 2009
• Expiry date: Aug 24, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2035/1051
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automatic pipetting and analyzing device for the preparation and analysis of samples in the wells of a microtitration plate has a work platform on which positioning areas for auxiliary devices and a movement area for the sample plate are provided, a passive mechanical table without its own drive unit, the sample plate lying within the inner passive slide of the passive mechanical table, and an active mechanical table which is arranged above the passive mechanical table and by which a pipetting head can be moved in X-Y direction over the work platform in order to extract, transport and dispense liquids by at least one pipetting channel and in order to displace the sample plate by a coupling connection with the inner passive slide, for example, to place the sample plate in an incubator or to position it with the individual wells in an analysis device.