| 摘要 |
An apparatus for automatically depositing, preserving and retrieving biological material test tubes is described, comprising a refrigerated storage (1) with movable horizontal shelves (37) and a conveyor interface (4), adapted to automatically transport biological material test tubes, a device (3) adapted to handle the test tubes between the interface (4) and the containers (5) of a sorted plurality of test tubes, said containers (5) having toothed guides (20) and being able to be placed on the lanes (11) of a bench (6), a handling device (7) of the containers (5) between the bench (6) and an access area (38) of the storage (1), slidingly mounted to the bench (6) and comprising motorized toothed means (18) adapted to couple with said toothed guides (20) of the containers (5) for horizontally moving the latter between the access area (38) of the storage (1) and the bench (6), and a control unit (9) adapted to coordinate said devices (3, 7) during the loading/unloading operations by means of locating means (43, 31, 32, 56, 57, 58, 113, 114) adapted to locate each test tube in the storage (1), by identifying the container (5) which contains it, the position of the test tube in the container (5), the shelf (37) and the lane (11) of said shelf (37) containing the container (5), thus allowing the automatic retrieval of said test tube from the storage (1) from any point therein and at any time.
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