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Apparatus for shaking sample containers

US7575363B2 · kind B2 · utility

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7Claims

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Assignee

Eppendorf AG · DE

Inventors

Oliver Ruser · Hamburg, DE
Holger Link · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 5, 2006
Grant date	Aug 18, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 28, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB01L99/00
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

An apparatus for shaking individual sample containers including an upper end with an opening and a lower closed end, the apparatus including a holder with which the sample container can, with its lower end, be brought into engagement such that, when the holder moves, the lower end of the sample container is also moved; a drive connected to the holder and moving the holder for shaking the sample container in a, particularly, horizontal plane; a sensor which, once a sample container is arranged at a defined position in the holder, generates a start signal and, once the sample container is removed from the defined position in the holder, generates a stop signal for the drive, wherein the drive is designed such that it continues to move the holder for a defined coast-down time after a stop signal has been generated by the sensor.

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