Leica Biosystems Nussloch Gmbh

Leica Microsystems Nussloch Gmbh

Robert Gropp

Peter Scheck

Andreas Käpplein

An apparatus for preferably automatic handling and/or processing of objects (), in particular in the field of medical technology, having at least one processing station () and one object carrier () for bringing the object () to the processing station (), optionally through the processing station (), and away from the processing station (), is characterized in that the object carrier () has a code; that data concerning the object () and/or the handling or processing of the object () can be assigned to the code; and that the data can be read or retrieved by way of the code.

Apparatus for preferably automatic handling and/or processing of objects

A method for treating objects, in particular cytological or histological specimens, for example in an automatic stainer, the objects being delivered, preferably on object carriers and in object carrier magazines, by means of a transport device to various processing stations, inserted therein, and treated in accordance with a definable treatment program, and the transport device being capable, during the treatment, of moving further objects or object carriers to other processing stations so that a parallel processing or treatment is possible in various processing stations, is characterized by an optimized automatic program sequence according to which identically operating processing stations are defined as backup stations and are correspondingly occupied if a concretely required processing station is occupied.

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Schifferstadt, Germany

Robert Gropp