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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2004
Nikolaus Ingenhoven, Uerikon, CH;
Christian Strebel, Greifensee, CH;
Peter Fisch, Hombrechtikon, CH;
Joas Leemann, Ottikon, CH;
Nikolaus Ingenhoven, Uerikon, CH;
Christian Strebel, Greifensee, CH;
Peter Fisch, Hombrechtikon, CH;
Joas Leemann, Ottikon, CH;
Tecan Trading AG, Maennedorf, CH;
Abstract
A plate and method for positioning functional elements in a system for working with fluid-containing samples includes a horizontal work field having a lengthwise dimension and a perpendicularly extending transverse dimension, as well as a robot arm with a functional element, aligned essentially perpendicularly to the work field in a Z direction. The robot arm can move the functional element in at least a partial region of the work field in the X and/or Y direction. The plate includes two light barriers which intersect inside the partial region, each having a transmitter and receiver whose scanning or detection beams each extend in a direction deviating from the X direction and/or from the Y direction.