Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products Gmbh

Dirk Bugner

Holger Pufahl

Guenther Kotulla

Markus Preidel

Klaus Proch

Carolin Brade

The invention relates to apparatus for determining the position of an automatically displaceable gauge. The apparatus comprises the gauge, a first device for displacing the gauge in the spatial X-direction, a second device for displacing the gauge in a spatial Z-direction, a sensor for identifying the abutment of the gauge on, or the approach thereof to, an article, an at least partly bordered receptacle position, into which the gauge is at least partly insertable by displacing the gauge in the spatial X- and/or Z-direction, and a movable assembly, wherein the receptacle position for the gauge is arranged on the movable assembly.

Apparatus and method for determining the position of an automatically displaceable gauge

The present invention relates to an automated analysis device () and a method for temporary, energy-saving operation of the analysis device () in a standby mode, the analysis device () comprising a central control unit () and a standby control unit ().

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Mainz, Germany

Dirk Bugner