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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2008
Rajiv Gupta, Cupertino, CA (US);
Stephen Lewis Leckenby, Victoria, CA;
Phillip James Duncan, Mount Waverley, AU;
Ryan Andrew Annear, South Carlton, AU;
Daniel Patrick Torpy, Surrey Hills, AU;
Chong Kean Ooi, Glen Waverley, AU;
Michael John Tomlinson, Ringwood East, AU;
Leon Raj, Ferntree Gully, AU;
Graeme John Cross, North Fitzroy, AU;
Kenneth Andrew Nicoll, Doncaster, AU;
Wayne Richard Cheetham, Blackburn, AU;
Michael Craig Lovett, Blackburn South, AU;
Colin William Potter, Nunawading, AU;
Rajiv Gupta, Cupertino, CA (US);
Stephen Lewis Leckenby, Victoria, CA;
Phillip James Duncan, Mount Waverley, AU;
Ryan Andrew Annear, South Carlton, AU;
Daniel Patrick Torpy, Surrey Hills, AU;
Chong Kean Ooi, Glen Waverley, AU;
Michael John Tomlinson, Ringwood East, AU;
Leon Raj, Ferntree Gully, AU;
Graeme John Cross, North Fitzroy, AU;
Kenneth Andrew Nicoll, Doncaster, AU;
Wayne Richard Cheetham, Blackburn, AU;
Michael Craig Lovett, Blackburn South, AU;
Colin William Potter, Nunawading, AU;
LBT Innovations Limited, Adelaide SA, AU;
Abstract
An apparatus for inoculating and streaking a solid growth culture medium in a plate, the streaking using a streaking applicator having a line of resiliently and flexibly supported spaced apart contact surfaces, the apparatus including: (a) an inoculating and streaking station including: a plate work position having a notional action line fixed in two dimensions (x,y) in a predetermined position; and a plate rotation device for rotating a positioned plate to cause streaking; (b) a sensor capable of locating the surface of the medium in a positioned plate to thereby determine for that plate, prior to inoculation and streaking of that plate, the third dimension (z) of the action line; (c) an inoculating device capable of dispensing inoculum, along the action line, on the surface of the medium in the positioned plate; and (d) a streaking device capable of moving the streaking applicator such that its line of spaced apart contact surfaces contacts, along the action line, the surface of the medium in the positioned plate, prior to rotation of the positioned plate for streaking.