Carl Zeiss Jena Gmbh

F. Hoffmann-la Roche Ag

Bruker Biospin Ag

Hansjoerg Tschirky

Daniel Marek

Christof Fattinger

Thilo Enderle

Martin Gluch

Roberto Seydoux

Michael Warden

Richard Ameling

A transport system for transporting and handling microtiter plates, for use in high throughput screening, diagnosis and/or combinatorial chemistry, comprising modules with devices for preparing specimens and/or introducing specimens, and/or for optical readout and/or for plate storage and/or devices for further processing steps or readout steps. The system includes an inter-modular transport system for transporting the microtiter plates between the different devices and at least one central transport system for asynchronous plate transfer between individual modules via input and output buffers.

Device for transporting and holding microtiter plates

A device for transporting an elongated sample tube ( ) into the measuring chamber ( ) of an NMR magnet system comprising a spinner which has an axial through-bore through which the sample tube can be inserted, transported together with the spinner on an air cushion into the measuring chamber, and positioned therein relative to the vertical axis of the NMR receiver coil system ( ) is characterized by a mounting sleeve ( ) which is disposed in a collar-like manner radially around the sample tube such that it cannot slip and which, in the operating position of the sample tube, flatly abuts with one end face thereof on a horizontal stop surface ( ) in the bottom region inside a two-stage axial bore ( ) of the spinner ( ), wherein the inner diameter of the bore ( ), in a first stage in the upper region, is larger than the outer diameter of the mounting sleeve, and the inner diameter of a second stage, in the bottom region of the spinner, is smaller than the outer diameter of the mounting sleeve but larger than the outer diameter of the sample tube. This permits modification of a transport device for NMR measuring capillaries using simple technical means such that it is less sensitive than the conventional devices to curtail breakage of glass.

Device for the transport and exact positioning of a sample tube in a high-resolution NMR spectrometer

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Ettingen, Switzerland

Hansjoerg Tschirky