Boehringer Mannheim Gmbh

Hitachi, Ltd.

Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Roche Diagnostics Gmbh

F. Hoffmann-la Roche Ag

Albert Wohland

Hajime Yamazaki

Hiroshi Mitsumaki

Atsushi Katayama

Tadashi Ohishi

Hiroyuki Kuriyama

Stephan Sattler

Hermann Erb

Alfred Resch

Volker Degenhardt

Alois Rainer

Manfred Bohm

A system and method for measuring substance concentrations is provided. The system has a test strip container for receiving a test strip(s). The container has a sealing device, a counter device that counts a number of opening processes of the sealing device, a data carrier that stores batch-specific data of the test strip(s), a data transmission device for wireless transmission of the data and of the number. An analysis module has a device for measuring substance concentrations by the test strip(s), and a data-receiving device for wireless reception of the data from the data transmission device and of the number. The method records the number and stores the number on the data carrier; sends data and the number by wireless transmission to the analysis module, and determines a substance concentration by the test strip(s). Also or instead, the counter device counts a time duration of the opening processes.

Measurement system for measuring substance concentrations in liquid media

Reagent bottle

Packaging system for liquid reagents in which two or more vessels with holding areas are combined by pressing a plug-on plate onto the holding areas of the vessels. For this purpose the plug-on plate has two or more apertures the cross-section of which essentially corresponds to the cross-section of the holding areas of the vessels. Plug-on plate and/or holding areas of the vessels can have stop elements which, after the combination, hinder the separation vessels and plug-on plate.

Packaging system for liquid reagents

Reagent bottle holder for a reagent disc

A closing device for containers is made of plastic with a tiltable lid linked to a lid support to be attached to the lid or to the container where it can be moved via a hinged connection from a closed position to an open position. The closing device also has a spring on one side of the lid, and a lid support or the container on the other side. The spring is arranged with respect to the tilting axis of the lid which is defined by the hinged connection such that the lid is displaced from the closed position to the open position after having passed a dead center position, due to the pre-stress of the spring. The lid and the lid support or container each have at least one integrally linked abutment. The abutments come into contact with each other in the open position of the lid as a result of being urged into the contact position by the spring.

Closing device for container

A system for incubating sample liquids is proposed where the incubating vessels are placed into the bores of an incubator block with the aid of a rack. The rack has bores in which the incubating vessels are hanging. The bores of the rack and the ones in the incubator block are adjusted to one another so that the incubating vessels fit into the bores of the incubator block when the rack is placed onto the incubator block.

System for incubating sample liquids

A vessel for reagent liquids includes a storage vessel with an identification mark applied thereon and a closure which is snapped onto the storage vessel. Either an inner wall surface of the closure and an outer wall surface of the storage vessel or an outer wall surface of the closure and an inner wall surface of the storage vessel fit tightly against each other, and a twisting of the closure and storage vessel is prevented by projections which are located on the adjacent wall surfaces. Further a system for positioning and reading identification marks on storage vessels includes an analytical instrument having at least one holding position for storage vessels and a reading device for identification marks on storage vessels with a twist protection as described above.

Twist protection for reagent vessels

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Viernheim, Germany

Albert Wohland