Dade Behring Inc.

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Gmbh

Allan Tit-Shing Chow

William Jackson Devlin, Sr

David R Thompson

Timothy Patrick Evers

John Paul Mizzer

Lawrence D Huppman

Joseph Edward Kegelman

Steven Frye

Edward Anthony Nuzzaci

Joseph Edward Brennan

Stephen Lawrence Frye

An automated analyzer for analyzing patient samples. The analyzer includes a plurality of cuvettes, which allow the samples to be mixed with various reagents. The analyzer includes one or more detectors, including a detector adapted to detect luminescence of the reaction mixture in the cuvettes. The analyzer allows for various diagnostic assays to be performed on a single system, and provides for high-sensitivity analysis at faster speeds.

Automated analyzer

Automated multi-detector analyzer

An automatic clinical analyzer in which the number of cuvette ports available for reaction vessels on a reaction carousel are 50% in a configuration using a single reagent storage areas; in a second configuration an additional reagent storage areas is employed and additional ones of the cuvette ports on reaction carousel are utilized, thereby significantly increasing throughput.

Method for increasing capacity in an automatic clinical analyzer by using modular reagent delivery means

Monitoring the intensity pattern of a radiation beam reflected from a sample tube before and after the tube is tilted from an original alignment to determine signal areas that correspond to the location of a liquid interface within the tube.

Method and apparatus for determining liquid levels in a liquid sample container

Aliquot holder

A pre-processor for use in performing heterogeneous immunoassays on samples for analytes in the sample employing concentrically positioned incubating and processing carousels. A single transfer station permits reaction vessels containing sample and reagents to be moved between the carousels. The samples are separated, washed and mixed on the processing carousel and incubated on the incubating carousel thus speeding up processing throughput.

Method and apparatus for pre-treating samples in an automatic chemical

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Allan Tit-Shing Chow