Patent ID: 7485464
Filing Date: 2009-02-03
Classification: G01N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A portable automated discrete fluid sample analyzer comprising: a pipettor movable between a plurality of receptacles and for extracting a fluid sample from at least one of the receptacles; a plurality of reaction cuvettes a pump; a microprocessor coupled to the pump and pipettor, for sending control signals to the pump and pipettor; a well configured to receive the fluid sample deposited by the pipettor; a sample preparation device in fluid communication with the well and the pump, wherein the fluid sample is transferred from the well to the sample preparation device by the pump under control of the microprocessor, the sample preparation device prepares the fluid sample by exposing it to an element within the sample preparation device in order to provide a prepared fluid sample, the prepared fluid sample is transferred back into the well by the pump under control of the microprocessor, the prepared fluid sample is removed from the well and is aspirated by the pipettor under control of the microprocessor for subsequent deposit of the prepared fluid sample into one of the reaction cuvettes; the pippettor, receptacles, reaction cuvettes, well, sample preparation device, and pump being mounted in a common housing which is portable.