Contraves Ag

Andre Ruegg

Astrid Sonnenmoser

Markus Feier

Donald P Stait

Wilfried Beck

Christian Studer

Klaus Zahn

A dosing and mixing apparatus for fluid media comprising at least one delivery element and one isolating element. These elements are provided with through-flow or transfer passages and dosing chambers suitably mutually arranged for accomodating and isolating a voluminized specimen quantity or measured dose of test specimen as well as for delivering this measured out dose of test specimen to and mixing this dose of test specimen with a measured dose of thinning agent. The dosing and mixing apparatus manifests itself in that at least one channel suitably associated with the dosing chamber is provided in a surface of one of the elements, such as the isolating element at the surface thereof which faces the delivery element. Each such channel communicates with through-flow openings or circulation passages and is traversed by a cleansing fluid wetting the mutually facing and touching surfaces of the individual delivery and isolating elements in the transport path of the dose of test specimen.

Dosing and mixing apparatus for fluid media

An injection apparatus for injecting liquids into a blood vessel of a living body includes an injector housing provided at its front end with a retaining or holder member for supporting an injection syringe containing a piston located in a cylinder of the injection syringe. The retaining member is adapted to exchangeably receive injection syringes of different cylinder cross-sections. A sensing device substantially comprises two sensing or feeler brackets and two switches cooperating with the sensing brackets. The sensing or feeler brackets are journaled in the retaining or holder member and are adapted to be deflected by interaction with the syringe cylinder. The deflection is particularly accomplished by a flange provided at one end of the syringe cylinder and having a diameter governed by the cylinder cross-section. Upon its deflection the sensing bracket actuates a related one of the switches to thereby transmit a signal dependent upon the cylinder cross-section to a control of a suitable drive arrangement containing a spindle mechanism in order to advance the piston at a controlled rate.

Injection apparatus for the dosed delivery of a liquid

An apparatus for the dosed dispensing of a liquid by means of an injection device equipped with a motor-driven spindle mechanism, a cylinder and a piston, one end of the piston being axially displaceable in the cylinder and the other end being operatively connected with one end of a spindle shaft of the spindle mechanism. At the opposite end of the spindle shaft there is provided a first scale ring connected with the spindleshaft and a second scale ring which engages with the first scale ring. A coupling element connects the second scale ring with an adjustment device, the second scale ring being rotatable and thus adjustable with respect to the first scale ring by axially disengaging or declutching the same. Both of the scale rings are equipped with at least one stop means for limiting the adjustment path of the second scale ring for setting the volume of the liquid to be dispensed or dosed.

Apparatus for the dosed dispensing of a liquid

A pivot mechanism for a housing laterally arranged at a support, such as a stand or the like, especially a housing for a medical instrument, comprising a first axle body and a second axle body, the second axle body being rotatably mounted at one side or end in the first axle body and at the other side or end is capable of being operatively connected with the housing. The first axle body and the second axle body are mounted in a headpiece such that the housing is horizontally rotatable about an essentially vertical lengthwise axis of the first axle body and vertically pivotable about an essentially horizontal lengthwise axis of the second axle body. The headpiece has at least one friction surface for the horizontal rotational movement and further friction surfaces for the vertical pivotal movement. For braking such movements there is provided but a single resilient element such as a compression or pressure spring.

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Zurich, Switzerland

Andre Ruegg