Patent ID: 7541191
Filing Date: 2009-06-02
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
1. Integrated apparatus for hematological analyses, wherein it comprises, arranged substantially in line and integrated substantially in a single machine, an optical device to detect substantially instantaneously the speed of blood sedimentation (ESR) by measuring the optical density, or absorbance, of a blood sample, and a measuring assembly with a cell-counter function, said optical device for the detection of the ESR and said measuring assembly sharing a circuit for circulation of the same blood sample to be subjected first to the detection of the ESR and then to other measurements such as counting the red cells, white cells, platelets, the hematocrit and other parameters relating to the form and size of the corpuscle part of the blood, said optical device for the detection of the ESR and said measuring assembly with a cell-counter function sharing a pump associated on the circuit and for circulating the blood sample, said apparatus further including a single command and control unit controlling and governing the functioning of said optical device to detect the speed of blood sedimentation and said measuring assembly.