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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2013
Eppendorf Ag, Hamburg, DE;
Burkhardt Reichmuth, Hamburg, DE;
Michael Schicke, Kaltenkirechen, DE;
Wilko Hein, Berlin, DE;
Volker Plickert, Brieselang, DE;
EPPENDORF AG, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a pipetting apparatus for pipetting laboratory samples into a pipetting container which can be connected to the pipetting apparatus, which pipetting container is in particular designed according to the invention, comprising a container side and a first connection section, by means of which the pipetting container can be connected to the pipetting apparatus, and comprising an information carrying device with at least one information section, which carries information, on this container side; the pipetting apparatus comprising an electric information reading device, by means of which information contained on the information reading device can be read when the pipetting container is connected to the pipetting apparatus, and which comprises at least one electric sensor device, which comprises at least one sensor section, opposite to which a measuring space is formed, wherein the sensor device is configured to read the information content of at least one information section when the latter is arranged in the measuring space. The invention furthermore relates to the pipetting container or adapter element, which can be used with the pipetting apparatus, and a method for the production thereof.