Auxiliary sample supply for a clinical analyzer

摘要

An automated combinational clinical analyzer 10 has a "dry" (to the left) and a "wet" (to the right) chemistry system, linked by an auxiliary sample handler 40 which has an inner rotor 96 and an outer rotor 118. The inner rotor has thirty sample container supply stations. The outer rotor has sixty tip supply stations. The supply stations are sized to receive a sealable metering tip, each of the tips, when sealed, containing a fluid volume of a test fluid and in which each of the sealed metering tips acts as an auxiliary sample supply container for use with at least one chemistry system of the clinical analyzer.