Patent · US Expired

Device for transporting and holding microtiter plates

US7597848B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignees

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH · DE
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG · CH

Inventors

Richard Ameling · Aalen, DE
Thilo Enderle · Rheinfelden (Baden), DE
Christof Fattinger · Blauen, CH
Martin Gluch · Jena, DE
Hansjoerg Tschirky · Ettingen, CH

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 30, 1999
Grant date	Oct 6, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 30, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T436/2575
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A transport system for transporting and handling microtiter plates, for use in high throughput screening, diagnosis and/or combinatorial chemistry, comprising modules with devices for preparing specimens and/or introducing specimens, and/or for optical readout and/or for plate storage and/or devices for further processing steps or readout steps. The system includes an inter-modular transport system for transporting the microtiter plates between the different devices and at least one central transport system for asynchronous plate transfer between individual modules via input and output buffers.

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