Patent ID: 8763454

Claim:
Laboratory equipment comprising at least one apparatus for the capacitive determination of the fill level in the individual containers of a group of regularly disposed containers of the same dimensions, wherein the apparatus comprises a transmitter electrode and a receiver electrode as well as a measuring circuit for carrying out a capacitive measurement, wherein said measuring circuit comprises a transmitting circuit and a receiving circuit and the apparatus comprises: a horizontal base plate with a plurality of electrodes which protrude in one direction in relation to a horizontal plane defined by the base plate and which are mutually uniformly spaced apart such that a plurality of working zones of the same dimensions are formed, multiple connections through which each of said plurality of electrodes is connectable with the transmitting circuit and controllable by said transmitting circuit thereby acting as a transmitter electrode and each of said plurality of electrodes is connectable with the receiving circuit and configured to be read out by said receiving circuit thereby acting as receiver electrodes, wherein, said plurality of electrodes are mutually uniformly spaced apart such that a working zone is formed between each electrode and its directly adjacent electrode(s), each working zone being configured to receive a container; and in the area of each working zone in the horizontal plane at least respectively two electrodes are opposite one another and wherein by means of said multiple connections respectively one of these two electrodes acts as transmitter and the other of the two electrodes acts as receiver.