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1. An accommodating magazine for accommodating a plurality of sample carriers in at least one sample holder equipped to accommodate several such sample carriers for the automated handling of individual sample carriers of such a type, wherein the accommodating magazine comprises the following:
a magazine panel, which is displaceable essentially horizontally, like a drawer, between a ready position, in which the accommodating magazine is ready for automated handling of the individual sample carriers, and a loading position, in which sampling carriers or sample holders manually introducible or retrievable, and the at least one sample holder is or can be disposed on said magazine panel, characterized by a load detection device for detecting a load of the magazine panel with sample holder(s) or sample carriers in the movement of the magazine panel between the loading position and the ready position, comprising the following components: a) at least one detector, which operates without contact for detecting the presence of objects in a sensor region, which is disposed in a path of movement of sample holders or sample carriers disposed on the magazine panel, such that the detector detects sample holders or sample carriers disposed on the magazine panel and passing by its sensor region; b) a displacement sensor, which detects a displacement or a current position of the magazine panel upon displacement of same between the loading position and the ready position, and c) an evaluation unit, in which the data of the detector and of the displacement sensor are combined and evaluated with regard to the presence of at least one sample holder or sample carrier in correlation with a certain path position of the displacement. |
