E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Dade International Inc.

Robert E Bernstine

Colin A Nurse

Timothy Patrick Evers

James H Lipscomb

Paul John Zuk

Keith Aldan Ely

Kin W Wong

Robert A Burkovich

An analysis instrument includes a container support (12), a carrier (24) having a plurality of liquid receiving wells (24W), a gross probe (40) movable along a locus of action (42) and a fine probe (50), the fine probe (50) being movable along a locus of action (52). In addition, various analysis, treatment and/or handling devices are also disposed at predetermined operating positions arranged along the loci of action (42, 52). Both the gross probe 40 and the fine probe 50 are each independently movable along their respective loci of action 42, 52 among one or more various extracting position(s) and one or more various dispensing position(s) to which either the support (12) and/or the carrier (24) may be moved, and/or among various operating position(s).

Analysis instrument having carrier with liquid receiving wells

An analytical carrier device permits the holding of a sample, reaction vessel with reagents for the sample, and a container for receiving a processed sample. The container facilitates transfer to an analytical device for analysis.

Carrier device

The apparatus processes immunoassays of samples using a solid support. It provides a compact system using rectilinear motion to process carriers holding samples on a real time basis while permitting the input and output of the system to operate on a random basis.

Multi-linear automatic apparatus for processing immunoassays

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Chesapeake City, MD, United States of America

Robert E Bernstine