Patent ID: 7634917

Claim:
A cryoapparatus for freezing and thawing a sample, comprising: (a) a coolable cooling space, (b) a sample container arranged in the cooling space for temporarily receiving the sample when freezing or thawing the sample, (c) a thermally insulated, extractable transport container that is arranged in the cooling space for extracting the sample from the cooling space after the freezing and for inserting the sample into the cooling space for thawing, (d) sample transferring means for transferring within the cooling space the sample out of the sample container and into the transport container and out of the transport container and into the sample container, (e) temperature adjusting means for adjusting a temperature of the sample container separately from the cooling space between the insertion of the sample and the extraction of the sample, and (f) cooling means for cooling a lower area of the cooling space to a given target temperature of a freezing process so as to cool the sample container from a given starting temperature of the freezing process to the target temperature of the freezing process.