AUTOMATED ANALYTICAL APPARATUS FOR MEASURING ANTIGENS OR ANTIBODIES IN BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS

摘要

23 This analytical apparatus comprises a transfer disk (1) provided with housing recesses (2) for holding reaction cells (3). This transfer disk (1) is thermostatted and moves vis-a-vis a series of workstations including a loading station (10) a bar-code reader (14), pipet reagent delivery stations (16, 17, 82, 83, 115), mixing stations (77, 101), washing and magnetic separation station (46, 81) as well as a discharging station (104). Each cell is marked with a series of characterizing bars coding for the kind of analyses to be brought about. These coded bases are read by a detector (14) connected to an electronic computing and control unit which controls the various work-stations in function to the kind of analyses to be carried out on the sample in the cells under consideration. Fig. 1