AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT DEVICE WITH BORER FOR CARTRIDGE SEAL

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic measurement device having a mechanism automatically boring a seal of a cartridge without generating contamination. SOLUTION: This automatic measurement device has: a dispensing device installed with a chip, having a nozzle elevatable nozzle discharging and sucking liquid through the chip; a measurement table on which the automatically measuring cartridge having at least one well and the seal sealing an opening part of the well is placed correspondingly to the nozzle; and a drive device moving the measurement table. The automatic measurement device is provided with an elavatable borer having a shaft part and a tip part having a sharp shape, the measurement table moves such that the tip part of the borer is positioned above the well of the cartridge, and the tip part of the borer bores the seal when the borer descends. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI