Patent ID: 8003050

Claim:
A device for analyzing samples administered from a plurality of sample vessels, said device comprising: a central unit having a supply of reaction vessels and a sampling unit by which at least a part of a sample is transferred from one of the plurality of sample vessels into a reaction vessel supplied from the supply of reaction vessels; at least one analytical unit having a plurality of self dispensing reagent vessels provided in a cassette; a transport unit which transports at least a part of the reaction vessels from the central unit to the at least one analytical unit such that the analytical unit supplies a reagent directly from at least one of the plurality of self dispensing reagent vessels provided in the cassette into the supplied reaction vessel for triggering a reaction between the sample and the supplied reagent; a supply unit configured to provide the supplied reaction vessel, while holding the sample therein, from the central unit to the transport unit; an extraction device configured to remove the supplied reaction vessel from the transport unit and provide the supplied reaction vessel, while holding the sample therein, to the at least one analytical unit; at least one measuring unit provided in the at least one analytical unit and which measures a physical property of the sample held in the supplied reaction vessel; and a measuring device included in the central unit, and wherein the sample is introduced directly into the measuring device from the sample vessel via the sampling unit of the central unit.