Patent ID: 7875456

Claim:
A portable automated discrete fluid sample analyzer comprising: a moveable pipettor; a pump; a microprocessor coupled to the pump and pipettor, for sending control signals to the pump and pipettor; a well configured to receive a fluid sample deposited by the moveable pipettor; and 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 in order to provide a prepared fluid sample, the sample preparation device comprises means for agitating the fluid sample within the sample preparation device, 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 by the pipettor under control of the microprocessor; the pippettor, well, sample preparation device, and pump being mounted in a common housing which is portable.