Meon Medical Solutions Gmbh & Co. Kg

Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Meon Medical Solutions Gmbh & Co Kg

Roche Diagnostics Gmbh

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ag

Arnold Bartel

Wolfgang Sprengers

Herfried Huemer

Patrick Kraus-Füreder

Reinhard Marik

Robert Scholz-Mareich

Berthold Limbach

Horst Ruether

Wolf-Dietrich Steinboeck

Stefan Gulo

Robert Felsberger

Michael Bergbaur

Simon Ickinger

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a device for carrying out heterogeneous immunoassays by means of magnetic particles in cuvettes lined up next to one another, wherein each cuvette has a filling opening and at least one lateral measurement window which is transparent to the measurement radiation. In one embodiment, the device includes at least one stationary cuvette array in which the cuvettes are arranged for receiving liquid media, at least one support arm which is movable along the cuvette array and which is lowerable toward the filling opening of a selected cuvette. The support arm having at least one aspirating needle which is lowerable toward the bottom of the cuvette, and also having at least one dispenser which can be positioned above or in the respective filling opening for dispensing the liquid media into the cuvette.

Method and device for performing heterogeneous immunoassays

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method and a device for carrying out chemical, biochemical and/or immunochemical analyses of liquid samples, which are present in a sample store of an automatic analyzer, with the aid of liquid reagents, which are present in at least one reagent store of the analyzer. In one embodiment, a analyzer is disclosed including cuvettes for holding the liquid samples and reagents, the cuvettes are arranged in at least one stationary, linear cuvette array. The analyzer further has an optical measurement unit with a stationary light-supplying unit which has at least one light distributor device that feeds the light from a plurality of LED light sources emitting in a spectrally different manner in the UV/VIS/NIR wavelength range into the inlet windows of the individual cuvettes of the cuvette array. The optical measurement unit further includes a stationary detection unit assigned to outlet windows of the cuvettes and further includes a plurality of photodiodes.

Automatic analyzer and optical measurement method for obtaining measurement signals from liquid media

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to, for example, an optical measurement unit for obtaining measurement signals from liquid media which are present in cuvettes lined up next to one another. In one embodiment, the optical measurement unit includes a light-supplying unit for emitting an inlet radiation into the cuvettes, and a detection unit for detecting a measurement radiation exiting from the cuvettes and for converting the measurement radiation into an electrical measurement signal. In such an embodiment, the light-supplying unit has a plurality of LED light sources which emit in a spectrally different manner in the UV/VIS/NIR wavelength range, and wherein the detection unit includes at least one photodiode fixedly assigned to each cuvette of a cuvette array.

Optical measuring unit and optical measuring method for obtaining measurement signals of fluid media

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method and/or a device for carrying out chemical, biochemical and/or immunochemical analyses of liquid samples, which are present in a sample store of an automatic analyzer, with the aid of liquid reagents which are present in at least one reagent store of the analyzer, with cuvettes for receiving the liquid samples and reagents, wherein a plurality of cuvettes is arranged as at least one stationary, linear cuvette array in the analyzer. The analyzer has movable and stationary automated components, wherein at least two automated components are designed so as to be movable in the x-direction independently of one another along or parallel to the line of movement defined by the linear cuvette array and each have access to different cuvettes or groups of cuvettes in a freely selectable sequence.

Automatic analyzer and method for carrying out chemical, biochemical and/or immunochemical analyses

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method and/or a device for carrying out chemical, biochemical and/or immunochemical analyses of liquid samples, which are present in a sample store of an automatic analyzer, with the aid of liquid reagents which are present in at least one reagent store of the analyzer. In one example embodiment, the automatic analyzer includes cuvettes, a first pipettor, a device with an optical measurement unit, a device for heterogenous immunoassays, a cuvette washing unit, a needle washing unit, a temperature control unit.

Automatic analyzer and method for carrying out chemical, biochemical, and/or immunochemical analyses

A method for monitoring the use of a consumable in a disposable design in multiple analyzers is disclosed. The method provides a disposable consumable; uses the consumable as intended during operation of the first analyzer; and collects usage-relevant information for the consumable concerning the intended use of the consumable during operation of the first analyzer. Usage-relevant data derived from the usage-relevant information is stored in a memory unit assigned to the consumable. The consumable may be removed and again provided in the first or second analyzer. The first or second analyzer partially reads the usage-relevant data from the memory unit, evaluates the usage-relevant data, and derives control signals concerning the permissibility and/or type of a further intended use of the consumable during operation of the analyzer as a reaction to the evaluation of the read usage-relevant data.

Method for monitoring the use of a consumable in a disposable design in one or more analyzers

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