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Apparatus for positioning a cuvette in an optical beam path of an optical measuring instrument

US8092763B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Eppendorf AG · DE

Inventors

Andreas Bombach · Seevetal, DE
Peter Scheffler · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 24, 2008
Grant date	Jan 10, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 18, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N2021/0367
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An apparatus for positioning a cuvette in an optical beam path of an optical measuring instrument, with a shaft for axially inserting a cuvette, and means for pressing a cuvette against at least one wall surface of the shaft, which comprise at least one arrangement of a magnet, stationarily arranged with respect to the shaft, and a magnet movable with respect to the same, which are oriented such that the movable magnet tends to occupy a certain position with respect to the stationary magnet, in which the movable magnet engages at least partially into the shaft.

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