公开(公告)号：US20240367924A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-07

申请号：US18649151

申请日：2024-04-29

Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Nathaniel Sharpe ,  Matthew Nussbaum ,  Matthias Edelmann ,  Christopher William Bates

IPC: B65G54/02 ,  G01N35/04

Abstract: The invention relates to a transport device for a laboratory sample distribution system, the transport device comprising a top cover having a transport surface, the transport surface being adapted to carry sample container carriers, an electromagnetic actuation assembly, the electromagnetic actuation assembly being adapted to generate a magnetic field at the transport surface for magnetic drive-interaction with a sample container carrier placed thereon, a support structure for carrying the actuation assembly, a sensor board being arranged in between the support structure and the top cover, the sensor board being adapted to detect a position of a sample container carrier placed on the transport surface with respect to the transport device, and elastic elements which are biased in between the sensor board and the support structure so that the sensor board is held flush against an inside surface of the top cover by a biasing force resulting from the biasing of the elastic elements.