Wallac Oy

Innotrac Diagnostics Oy

Mika Olavi Routamaa

Kauko Lehtinen

Vesa Sonne

Jarmo Sakari Korpi

Timo Salminen

Aarne Heinonen

Jussi Petteri Lehtonen

Ilari Torsti

Jouni Henrik Reivolahti

Kimmo Sakari Laine

Tom Javen

A device for cutting off one or more sample regions from a sample carrier that contains impregnated sample material, e.g. blood, is described. The device includes: a cutting unit () for cutting off the one or more sample regions from the sample carrier, an optical imaging unit () for producing an electronic image of the sample carrier, and a processor () for controlling a display screen () to display the image () and one or more indicators (') each expressing the location of one sample region to be cut off. Thus, an operator of the device is enabled to monitor, without direct visual communication to the sample carrier, what region or regions of the sample carrier is/are to be cut off. As no direct visual communication with the sample carrier is needed, the working ergonomics of the operator can be improved.

Method and device for cutting off one or more sample regions from a sample carrier

A switch device for producing one or more electrical signals in response to mechanical force includes a body-part () and one or more electric transducers (-) connected to the body-part and arranged to produce the one or more electrical signals in response to mechanical force directed to the body-part. The body-part includes a cavity (), and a wall constituting the bottom of the cavity is capable of being bent by mechanical force directed to the wall from the opposite side with respect to the cavity. The one or more electric transducers are located in the cavity and arranged to produce the one or more electrical signals when the bottom of the cavity is bent. The switch device can be built, for example, into a working plane of an electrical instrument so that a plate constituting the working plane constitutes also the body-part of the switch device.

Method and a switch device for producing an electrical signal in response to mechanical force

A sample handling method, in which the information on the sample to be examined is transferred throughout the entire measuring process by transferring the sample cup. The sample cups are handled in two independently operating drums, in which case at least two different handling phases can be carried out simultaneously in the measuring device. The diagnostic measuring device comprises a cassette drum, on the circumference of which the sample cup cassettes containing sample cups have been placed. The sample cup is fed to the first handling drum, which is simultaneously an incubation drum. After that the sample cup is transferred to a second handling drum, where washing, drying, measuring and discharge of the sample cup are carried out. The drums have been placed near each other, overlapping so that the transfers of the sample cup can be performed directly from one drum to another by means of transfer plungers.

Method for handling samples and diagnostic measuring device

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Lieto, Finland

Mika Olavi Routamaa