Method for selecting a pipette tip and a device for implementation

• US 8,117,928 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2007
• Issued: 02/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sartorius Biohit Liquid Handling Oy (Sartorius AG)
• Original Assignee: Biohit Oyj
• Inventors: Suovaniemi, Osmo, Vesanen, Erkki
• Primary Examiner(s): Raevis, Robert
• Application Number:
  US12/226,596
• Publication Number:
  US 20090120213A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,763 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 73/864.16
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2200/023 adapted for different sizes of tubes, tips or container
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2200/143 Quality control, feedback systems
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/0234 Repeating pipettes, i.e. for dispensing multiple doses from a single charge
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/0237 Details of electronic control, e.g. relating to user interface
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/10 Devices for transferring samples or any liquids to, in, or from, the analysis apparatus, e.g. suction devices, injection devices G01N35/0099 takes precedence

Abstract

This invention relates to a method for selecting a plunger-cylinder tip of a pipette and a device for carrying out the method. In the method, the dose size is entered into the control electronics of the pipetting device; the dose size is stored in the control electronics; the amount of doses is entered; and on the basis of the dose size and the amount of doses, the control electronics indicates suitable available interchangeable components on the display.

Claims

1. A method for selecting an interchangeable component formed as a plunger-cylinder unit to be connected to a pipetting device provided with an electronic control system, the method comprising:

entering by a user the dose size to the control system of the pipetting device;

entering by the user the amount of doses to the control system; and

indicating by the control system, on the basis of the said dose size and the said amount of doses, suitable interchangeable components from a previously stored selection of interchangeable components.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein part of the stored selection of interchangeable components can be excluded from use.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plunger in an interchangeable component arranged in the pipetting device is moved with respect to the cylinder by means of a plunger actuator, in connection with pipetting movement, for aspiring and discharging liquid to be pipetted, whereby different types of interchangeable components can be provided in the pipetting device, whereby one and the same relative position of the plunger and the cylinder is arranged for all types of interchangeable components.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the pipetting device comprises a locking and detaching mechanism operating under the control system, by means of which mechanism the control system can detect the detachment of an interchangeable component.

5. An electronically controlled pipetting device, comprising:

a body, having a tip portion, to which a detachable interchangeable component is receivable;

an electronic control system which controls the operation of the pipette;

an implementing keyboard;

a plunger movable in the longitudinal direction of the body for dispensing liquid to be pipetted;

a display being connected to the electronic control system; and

means for storing parameters of different interchangeable components formed as a plunger-cylinder unit in the electronic control system, wherein

the dose size and the amount of doses can be entered into the electronic control system by means of the keyboard.