Cybio Ag

Analytik Jena Ag

Corning Incorporated

Cybio Instruments Gmbh

Endress + Hauser Flowtec Ag

Endress+hauser Conducta Gmbh+co. Kg

Analytik Jena Gmbh+co. Kg

Merlin Gesellschaft Fuer Mikrobiologische Diagnostik Mbh

Opaljena Gesellschaft Fuer Optische Analytik Und Labortechnik Mbh

Thomas Moore

Uwe Naumann

Wolfgang Kraemer

Mark Francis Krol

David Andrew Pastel

Gordon M Shedd

Heiko Oehme

Peter Zimmermann

Detlev Wittmer

Thomas Wilhelm

Claus Knippschild

Torsten Schoeppe

Wolfgang Krämer

Anton Horn

Martin Hentschel

Simon Renard

Hartmut Köberich

Alfred Rieder

Wolfgang Drahm

Martin Bechem

Stephen Joseph Caracci

Anthony Glenn Frutos

Nikolai Fink

Torsten Rausch

Peter Klöfer

Martine Lefebvre

Stefan Kreusch

Ralf Thiericke

Benedikt Spielmann

Juergen Wulf

Eberhard Dietzsch

Georg Schmidt

Mohammad Sadegh Ebrahimi

Barbara Horn, Legal Representative

Michael Kiehntopf

Frank Tempel

Sebastian Pobering

Helga Endmann

Ralph Noll

Volker H O Eckelt

Renate Bublitz

Ronny Henke

Oliver Beil

Gerd Heiβe

Gerd Heibe

Holger Licht

Gerd Ebert

Sebastian Eck

Ingrid Schmid

Ulrich Hoefer

Swen Tyrasa

Guenther Sammler

Marco Braun

Patrick Hoost

Guenter Ditze

Jochen Eckardt

Daniel Weigel

Torsten Schöppe

A UV module for deactivating biologically contaminated surfaces in an interior of a device includes: a carrier; a radiation source affixed to the carrier and configured to emit UV radiation; and a control unit connected to the radiation source, wherein the control unit is configured to receive and process at least one information item to activate the radiation source to emit UV radiation based on the at least one information item. A system comprises such a UV module wherein the device is configured for the handling and/or examination of samples comprising biological material and has an interior into which the UV module can be introduced. A method for deactivating biologically contaminated surfaces in an interior of a device for the handling and/or examination of samples comprising biological material includes using the device.

UV module, system, and method for deactivating biologically contaminated surfaces in an interior of a device

Disclosed is a sensor arrangement on a process installation comprising at least two sensor tiles, wherein each sensor tile comprises a support and a plurality of sensors arranged on the support for determining a physical or chemical variable of a measuring medium, a process characteristic of the measuring medium, and/or a state of the process installation. A first sensor tile comprises a control unit having a transmit and receive module for data exchange with a control unit of a second sensor tile. The first control unit of the first sensor tile and/or a second control unit allocated to the sensor arrangement is designed to weight the values determined by each sensor tile. Weighting may be a function of the measured value variations of the sensor tile, the position of the sensor tile in the process installation, and/or the function of the sensor tile.

Sensor arrangement for arrangement on a process installation, and method for operating the sensor arrangement and process installation

The present disclosure includes a method for determining the necessity of a measure and/or the success of a measure in the case of a sensor in a retractable assembly, comprising the steps: moving the sensor in the direction of a service chamber of the retractable assembly; analyzing an attribute associated with the sensor, wherein the attribute is a state of at least a portion of the surface of the sensor and/or composition of a medium in the service chamber; and deriving measures from the analysis. The present disclosure also includes a system comprising a retractable assembly having a sensor and a corresponding analysis device.

Method for determining the necessity of cleaning and/or the success of cleaning

The present disclosure comprises a method for managing a plant of the automation technology, including a step of acquiring and storing all data transmitted via a communication network, consisting of process values, control variables and status data, and operating telegrams by a field detection unit, and providing the data and the operating telegrams with time stamps. The method also includes steps of temporally assigning the operating telegrams to the data, and analyzing the assignment and creating an intervention system. The intervention system contains plant states and interventions, wherein a plant state is created on the basis of transmitted data from a sensor unit and from an actuator unit, and wherein an intervention consists of at least one operating telegram following the transmitted data from the sensor unit and from the actuator unit.

Method for monitoring a plant of the automation technology

Cuvette, comprising a first flat plate () and a second flat plate (), both of which in a closed state of the cuvette are positioned so as to be situated opposite parallel to each other and at which there is at least one transparent first measuring surface () and at least one transparent second measuring surface (), which define in pairs a measuring space (), in which a liquid sample solution having a drop volume can be held by means of its surface tension and capillary forces. At least the second measuring surface () of each one of the measuring spaces () is a stepped surface, which has at least two plane-parallel partial measuring surfaces (), which are connected to each other by means of a setting surface (), so that the partial measuring surfaces () exhibit different vertical distances (b, b) from the first measuring surface ().

Cuvette

A cold box having a cooling receptacle filled with a dry protective gas in which is accommodated a rack loaded with tube-shaped vessels. The cooling receptacle is covered by a movable lid which is associated with a lid part and which is preferably formed by an outer lid and a rotatable inner lid integrated in the outer lid so that the cooling receptacle is completely covered in every position of the lid. At least one of the through-holes provided in the inner lid can be arranged over a respective tube-shaped vessel by a coordinated movement of the outer lid and rotation of the inner lid so that the tube-shaped vessel located under the through-hole in alignment therewith can be filled with a sample through the through-hole by means of a commercially available pipette tip/dispensing needle of an automated pipetting device.

Cold box with a rack loaded with tube-shaped vessels for automated filling by an automated pipetting device

A pipetting apparatus includes a pipetting head with a plurality of pipetting channels disposed in an arrangement pattern. Each pipetting channel includes a plunger and a cylinder. The plurality of pipetting channels includes at least two groups of pipetting channels with different diameters including a group of larger pipetting channels and a group of smaller pipetting channels. Each of the at least two groups of pipetting channels is disposed in an arrangement pattern in the pipetting head. Larger pipette tips communicate with the group of larger pipetting channels or smaller pipette tips communicate with the group of smaller pipetting channels.

Pipetting apparatus with a pipetting head comprising a multiplicity of pipetting channels disposed in an arrangement pattern

A device for loading, storing and providing objects having standardized dimensions includes a storage unit with a carrier plate and four stackers. Each stacker includes a bottom surface disposed on top of the carrier plate. The stackers are configured to store objects stacked perpendicular to the carrier plate. The stackers are disposed symmetrically centered around a rotation axis that is perpendicular to the carrier plate and offset with respect to each other by an angle of 90&#xb0;. A substructure is disposed underneath the carrier plate. An unloading device is configured to unload a selected object from a first of the stackers that is disposed in a transfer position. The storage unit is rotatable around the rotation axis so as to enable movement of each of the stackers into the transfer position.

Device for storing and providing objects having standardized dimensions

A screening device and a method are described herein which can automatically handle and measure (interrogate) a plurality of sensor carriers (i.e., multiwell plates, microplates) with multi-dimensionally arranged, temperature-compensated or temperature-compensatable optical sensors, while maintaining a substantially constant temperature gradient for a relatively long period of time around the optical sensors where temperature compensation has been performed on the sensor carriers.

Screening system and method for analyzing a plurality of biosensors

A screening system and method are described herein which provide a unique and practical solution for enabling label-free high throughput screening (HTS) to aid in the discovery of new drugs. In one embodiment, the screening system enables direct binding assays to be performed in which a biomolecular interaction of a chemical compound (drug candidate) with a biomolecule (therapeutic target) can be detected using assay volumes and concentrations that are compatible with the current practices of HTS in the pharmaceutical industry. The screening system also enables the detection of bio-chemical interactions that occur in the wells of a microplate which incorporates biosensors and surface chemistry to immobilize the therapeutic target at the surface of the biosensors. The screening system also includes fluid handling and plate handling devices to help perform automated HTS assays.

Label-free high throughput biomolecular screening system and method

An integral molded part of a plastic material for the analysis and preparation of substances, having at least one surface region and an interior region, wherein said at least one surface region is an open-pore three-dimensional network.

Molded part for the analysis and preparation of substances in microliter and submicroliter volumes and process for the preparation thereof

Procedure for equilibration of the delivery volumes of a multi-channel metering apparatus with an arrangement of independently controlled dispensing channels-.n, delivering individual volumes of dispensing fluid to cavities-.n.n, where measured values relevant to the individual delivery volumes are measured for the same control value and from which an adjustment value is specified with a tolerance band and the control value is adjusted for dispensing channels-.n, the measured values of which lie outside the tolerance band. The invention also applies to an apparatus for implementing the procedure.

Procedure for channel adjustment of a multi-channel metering apparatus

An automatic pipetting and analyzing device for the preparation and analysis of samples in the wells of a microtitration plate has a work platform on which positioning areas for auxiliary devices and a movement area for the sample plate are provided, a passive mechanical table without its own drive unit, the sample plate lying within the inner passive slide of the passive mechanical table, and an active mechanical table which is arranged above the passive mechanical table and by which a pipetting head can be moved in X-Y direction over the work platform in order to extract, transport and dispense liquids by at least one pipetting channel and in order to displace the sample plate by a coupling connection with the inner passive slide, for example, to place the sample plate in an incubator or to position it with the individual wells in an analysis device.

Automatic pipetting and analyzing device

Multi-channel metering apparatus with automatic calibration, where the individual dispensing channels, the micro-valvesof which are connected with the outlets of a distributororwhose inlet is filled with fluid by a vesselorthus connected, are able to be calibrated in relation to each other in that between the vesselorand the inlet of the distributorora flow sensoris arranged which for calibration during delivery of the fluid via a respective nozzleof a respective dispensing channelrecords the flow and generates signals which are respectively assigned to a defined opening time of a micro-valveand a specific dispensing channeland thus stored allows for individual control of the micro-valvesin order to equalize the tolerances of the dispensing channels

Multi-channel metering apparatus with automatic calibration

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Thomas Moore