Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.

Roche Diagnostics Gmbh

F. Hoffmann-la Roche Ag

Reiner Hitt

Gerd Schmieta

Eduard Nawrocki

Sam Palmer

Tim Moulton

Vijay Namasivayam

Ion Iordanoaia

Michael Neugebauer

Lawrence Chiu

Raphael Haag

Erich Caflisch

Nicolas Lehner

The present invention describes a secondary tube tray for use in an automated processing system, the tray comprising a base module and a secondary tube insert. Furthermore, the present invention describes a secondary tube handling module of an automated processing system for automatically processing biological sample, and a method of handling secondary tubes for use in automatically processing biological sample in an automated processing system.

Tube tray for secondary tubes, secondary tube handling module, and method of handling secondary tubes in an automated processing system

The present invention describes a base module () and a tray insert () of a multipurpose tray () for an automated processing system, such as an analytical, pre-analytical or post-analytical processing system, as well as to a multipurpose tray comprising such base module and such tray insert, wherein the tray insert can be particularly used for holding a plurality of reagent or sample tubes to be processed in the automated processing system. The present invention further relates to a method of simplified loading/unloading of such a multipurpose tray into/from the automated processing system.

Base module and tray insert of a multipurpose tray for an automated processing system, multipurpose tray for an automated processing system, and method of simplified loading/unloading of a multipurpose tray into/from an automated processing system

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