Abstract:
The invention concerns a piston pipette having pulling equipment for moving a piston upward and pushing equipment for moving the piston downward. The pushing equipment has a movable gripping means (5), which when moving downward is attached to the piston and transfers the piston downward, and a movable transfer means (4) extending below the gripping means. According to the structure a pipette is obtained which is gripped like a pencil and with which liquid can be dosed to a desired place as exactly as possible.
Abstract:
The invention concerns pointed pipette receptacles and their manufacture. The pointed receptacle has a tubelike pointed jacket with a top end for mounting the receptacle by pushing it on the pipette jet and with a bottom end for drawing fluid into the receptacle by using the pipette. The receptacle consists of at least two different materials (1, 2.2). This makes it possible, for example, in the receptacle to let a code indicate some characteristic or to make various components of different materials, for example, to increase its sealing, emptying or durability properties.
Abstract:
A method for carrying out immunoassays by using enzyme tracer in a vessel onto whose inside face an antigen of the antobody to be determined has been immobilized. The sample solution to be studied as well as a corresponding enzyme-labelled antibody are added into the vessel. After the immuno-logical reaction, a separation liquid (4) is added, which is heavier than the sample solution and which contains such a substrate (5) of the enzyme as is converted by the enzyme so that it becomes fluorometrically or photometrically detectable.
Abstract:
A thermostated cuvette set in which cuvettes (3) of uniform wall thickness are placed in a basin and in which a thermostating medium is passed along the flow duct by-passing each cuvette.
Abstract:
Electrically operated pipette in which the piston is displaced by means of an electric motor (10). The pipette is provided with an adjustable limiter (19), by means of which the stroke length of the piston can be varied.
Abstract:
Method for the measurement of the result of an agglutination reaction, in which method, after incubation, the reaction mixture is shaken so that the non-agglutinated portion is scattered homogeneously in the reaction mixture. Thereinafter, the absorbance of the agglutination remaining on the bottom of the reaction vessel is measured in an analyzer that measures vertically so that the beam of light or the reaction vessel is displaced in the horizontal plane and the absorbance is measured at several different points. The result of the agglutination reaction is obtained by comparison of the absorbance values.
Abstract:
Microcuvette set which comprises several cuvettes (5) in a matrix form, arranged so as to be handled as one whole unit. The frame portion of the microcuvette set (1) consists of a preferably rectangular frame portion (2) designed so that two or more cuvette-set components (3) can be attached to it in the longitudinal or transverse direction one after the other. Each of the said cuvette-set components (3) consists of several cuvettes (5) disposed in a line or matrix form and connected to each other or attached together by means of a support plate (4), and the middle portion of the frame portion (2) is open at least within the area covered by the cuvettes (5) in the cuvette-set components (3). The microcuvette set (1) comprises a rectangular locking frame (6), open at its middle portion at least within the area corresponding to the frame portion (2), which locking frame is arranged so as to be attached to the top face of the frame portion (2), e.g., by means of a friction joint, so-called snap-in joint, or by means of any other joint suitable for the purpose. Thereby, the ends of the support plates (4) of the cuvette-set components (3) fitted into the frame portion (2) remain between the top face of the frame portion (2) and the locking frame (6).
Abstract:
Method for the performance of a mutagenicity test so that a cell population is subjected to a mutagen. As a result of this, a part of the population mutates, whereat the originally uniform cell population is differentiated into sub-populations. The variation of turbidity caused by the increase in the density of the differentiated cell populations is measured as a change in optical density by means of a photometer measuring vertically at a certain wavelength, and the quantity of cells in the sub-populations is determined as optical density. The absorbance values are measured in accordance with a pre-programmed time share system and a growth curve is formed out of the values as a function of time.
Abstract:
A set of cuvettes the side walls of whose cuvettes (2) are provided with a layer (29) of material that prevents measurement radiation and/or light (22) directed at the walls from passing through the side walls. The layer (29) inhibiting the passage of the measurement radiation may be placed on the inside face and/ or on the outside face of the side walls of the cuvettes (2). When the inside face of the measurement window (16) in the cuvettes (2) is coated with a thin layer (34) of the material contained in the side walls of the cuvettes and preventing the passage of radiation, the layer of coating on the measurement window is, however, so thin that it allows the passage of the major part of the radiation through the window.
Abstract:
An automated sample analyzer (10) has a sample store (20) and a sample dispenser (90) which is controlled by a controller (170). Samples of a substance to be analyzed are dispensed into a cuvette (60), along with a reagent from a reagent storage compartment (40), after which incubation occurs in an incubator (70). The incubated analyte is then passed to a sample analysis module (140). This has a photometric analysis arrangement (150) and a twin photon excitation (TPX) analysis arrangement (160). The incubated analyte is analyzed using one or other of the arrangements (150, 160). By parallel processing of samples in the analysers (150), (160), a rapid throughput of samples is possible but with the possibility of both photometric and TPX analysis. The cuvette (60) is of a tapered design which is particularly suitable for samples to be analysed by either arrangement (150, 160).