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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1999
Filed:
May. 30, 1995
Tony Beugelsdijk, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Robert M Hollen, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Tracy H Erkkila, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Lawrence E Bronisz, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Jeffrey E Roybal, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Michael Leon Clark, Menan, ID (US);
The Regents of the University of California office of Technology Transfer, Alameda, CA (US);
Abstract
A standard laboratory module for automatically producing a solution of cominants from a soil sample. A sonication tip agitates a solution containing the soil sample in a beaker while a stepper motor rotates the sample. An aspirator tube, connected to a vacuum, draws the upper layer of solution from the beaker through a filter and into another beaker. This beaker can thereafter be removed for analysis of the solution. The standard laboratory module encloses an embedded controller providing process control, status feedback information and maintenance procedures for the equipment and operations within the standard laboratory module.