Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090032743 | LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY CARRYING OUT REACTIONS IN A PLURALITY OF SAMPLES - The invention relates to a laboratory apparatus for simultaneously carrying out reactions in a plurality of samples which are arranged in an array. The apparatus includes an illumination device, which emits illumination light onto the samples, a detection device, which generates a signal dependent on the light intensity of the light coming from the samples and which forwards the signal to an evaluation device, and a monitoring device for checking the functioning of the illumination device. The illumination device has a plurality of light-emitting diodes assigned in each case to one of the samples, and the monitoring device has electrical devices which can be used to perform an electrical functional check of the light-emitting diodes. The monitoring device is adapted to generate a signal when a functional disturbance of a light-emitting diode is ascertained. | 02-05-2009 |
20090218518 | APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT REAL-TIME PCR REACTIONS - Apparatus for carrying out real-time PCR reactions, including a thermocycler having a reaction region with a plurality of temperature-regulable receptacles for reaction vessels, an illumination device, which has a plurality of light-emitting diodes and is assigned to the reaction region and by means of which excitation light can be radiated into the receptacles, a detector device, which generates measured values in a manner dependent on a measured light intensity, optical devices defining a beam path that leads from the illumination device to the receptacles and from there to the detector device, a reference device, which generates a reference measured value by measurement of the light intensity of a light-emitting diode, and an evaluation device, which takes into account the reference measured value with the measured values, wherein the reference device has a reference light-emitting diode, the light of which is coupled into the beam path behind the reaction region. | 09-03-2009 |
20100285599 | Method and Device for the Quantitative Real Time Analysis of Fluorescent Samples - A method for the quantitative real time analysis of fluorescent samples is provided, at which each of the samples is excited to fluoresce by a sample individual light source ( | 11-11-2010 |
20100324834 | Device and Method for Radiometric Measurement of a Plurality of Samples - The invention relates to an apparatus for radiometrically investigating a plurality of samples, with: a radiation device providing a plurality of radiation elements, a radiation element comprising at least one emitter element, wherein the radiation device preferably provides at least two emitter elements which provide radiation with different radiation spectra, wherein at least two of said emitter elements are adapted to emit radiation during time periods which at least partially overlap, and a control device, controlling said radiation elements, a sample holder member providing a plurality of sample positions for supporting a plurality of samples, wherein device and the sample holder member are preferably at least a part of the radiation adapted to be moved against each other during the investigation procedure and wherein at least one radiation element is adapted to irradiate a sample with radiation via a first optical path which causes the sample to emit sample radiation with at least one sample radiation frequency via a second optical path towards at least one detection device, said at least one detection device being adapted to detect the sample radiation of at least two samples as a sum signal during time periods which at least partially overlap; and an evaluation device which is adapted to evaluate the sample radiation of at least one individual sample from said sum signal. The invention relates further to a method for photometrically investigating sample radiations of at least one sample, which are caused by the radiation of N emitter elements of at least one radiation element wherein said N emitter elements are emitting radiation during time periods which at least partially overlap, to detect the sample radiation of at least two samples as a sum signal during time periods which at least partially overlap and to evaluate the sample radiation of at least one individual sample from said sum signal. | 12-23-2010 |
20110151519 | Laboratory Apparatus with an Arrangement for the Tempering of Samples and Method of Tempering Samples - The invention relates to a laboratory apparatus, in particular for performing a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in a plurality of PCR-samples, which comprises an arrangement for tempering samples, the arrangement comprising a tempering block for the tempering of samples, the tempering block comprising a reception side, which provides receptacles for receiving sample vessels, and a contact side for the contact of at least one tempering device, at least one tempering device, arranged in an area of said contact side, a pressure device, which comprises a pressure element and an auxiliary element, said at least one tempering device being arranged between said auxiliary element and the tempering block, the pressure element being linked to said auxiliary element and to the tempering block, and being arranged to press said at least one tempering device against the tempering block by pressing said auxiliary element against said at least one tempering device, wherein at least one tempering device is shaped and arranged in said area to at least partially surround by itself said pressure element. | 06-23-2011 |
20110212521 | Apparatus and Method for Generating a Tool Motion - The invention relates to an apparatus according to the present invention for generating the motion of a tool, in particular for the work on biological cell material, in particular for performing ICSI, comprises at least one actuator element, an actuated member, a motion section, at which can be arranged a tool and which is linked to the actuated member, the actuated member being elastically deformable, the actuator element being linked to the actuated member such that an actuation by the actuator element elastically deforms the actuated member by a distance, which corresponds to a length change of the actuated member, wherein said length change causes said motion of the motion section. Further, a corresponding method for generating a tool motion is provided. | 09-01-2011 |
20130013115 | System and Method for Generating a Tool Motion - The invention relates to a system for generating the motion of a tool, in particular for the work on biological cell material, includes an apparatus, the apparatus providing a tool section, at which a tool can be arranged, and at least one actuator element arranged to move the tool section, the system further comprising a system control device, the system control device providing control means, which are configured to let the apparatus perform a pulsed motion of the tool section, starting from a first position of the tool section, moving the tool section to a second position, and moving the tool section from the second position to a third position or back to the first position, by means of the at least one actuator element, the system further including a feed motion device, which is linked to the tool section or which is linked to the apparatus, respectively, and which is capable of providing a feed motion of the tool section, control means being configured to control the feed motion of the tool section, wherein control means are configured such that the tool section performs a combined motion, comprising a feed motion and a pulsed motion, wherein the time shift between a first time during the pulsed motion and a second time during the feed motion is predetermined and is provided by the control means. Further, a corresponding method for generating a tool motion is provided. | 01-10-2013 |
20140195056 | Actuator Apparatus with Control Device - The invention relates to an actuator apparatus ( | 07-10-2014 |