Cuvette handling device

US9250256B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• STRATEC Biomedical AG · DE

Inventors

• Waldemar Lukhaub · Lambach, DE
• Alexander Schramm · Knetzgau, DE
• Martin Trump · Newbury, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 8, 2014
• Grant date: Feb 2, 2016
• Expiry date: Apr 8, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2035/0427
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Device for storing and dispensing cuvettes from a stack. The device has at least one cuvette stack receiving compartment, which may be a tube open at both ends, wherein one of the openings is provided with retaining springs, partly blocking the opening, so that the cuvette stack having been dropped into the compartment may come to rest on the retaining springs. The retaining springs are being spaced apart from the opening of the compartment by a distance that allows at least two cuvettes in the stack to stick out of the compartment opening. Furthermore, a cuvette separator with retaining spring spreaders is provided, moveable between a standby position away from the compartment and a cuvette separation position across the retaining spring opening of the compartment, and in between the two cuvettes, sticking out of the compartment.