Apparatus for processing biological material

US8932542B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• QIAGEN GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Schaefer · Leverkusen, DE
• Thomas Voit · Gif-sur-Yvette, FR
• Walter Tschopp
• Adrian Geiger · Zollikofen, CH
• Markus Zbinden · Engelburg, CH
• Harald Hibbing · Hamburg, DE
• Andreas Karl · Selters (Westerwald), DE
• Frank Eigemeier · Osterode, DE
• Volker Behrmann · Nortorf, DE
• Dietmar Kopp · Einbeck, DE
• Andreas Schmiede · Wermelskirchen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 26, 2006
• Grant date: Jan 13, 2015
• Expiry date: Oct 26, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2035/0436
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A gripper unit for handling a vessel for receiving biological material is proposed, inter alia. The vessel has a lid which can assume an open position and a closed position. The gripper unit comprises a gripper for gripping and releasing the vessel, and a lid holder, for holding a lid in a defined position in relation to the vessel. The defined position is an open position of the lid.