| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE32414 |
Robot and control system |
May 12, 1987 |
| A compact robot of the 3-axis type comprising a base-mounted motor control system with means to sense the position of a robot arm through a servo-system comprising position-sensing potentiometers mounted in the motor control system and a feed-back control system to co-ordinate the ve |
| 6357141 |
Evaporator with hot air bath and method of use |
March 19, 2002 |
| An evaporating system for evaporating solvents from chemical samples held in supply plates, which accelerate evaporation by warming the samples in a hot air bath. The system includes adapters to allow the use of supply plates of varying heights, such as either standard micro-plates or de |
| 6068393 |
Robotic system for processing chemical products |
May 30, 2000 |
| A robotic system for processing a plurality of products, the system including a plurality of units arranged to sequentially receive the products and each having a work station for effecting a specific operation on the products; and a robotic device associated with each unit and opera |
| 6060024 |
Automatic dissolution testing system |
May 9, 2000 |
| A dissolution testing system including a base; a plurality of vessels mounted on the base; an agitation mechanism for agitating a liquid content of the vessels; and a head supported above each of the vessels and operable to automatically inject a liquid media into the vessel. |
| 5955373 |
Environmentally controlled system for processing chemical products |
September 21, 1999 |
| A processing system for processing a plurality of products, the system including a plurality of interchangeable units arranged to receive the products and each having a work station for effecting a specific operation, and a canopy covering said work station, the units being interconn |
| 5928952 |
Scheduled system and method for processing chemical products |
July 27, 1999 |
| A processing system for processing a plurality of products, the system including a plurality of interchangeable units arranged to sequentially receive the products and each having a work station for effecting a specific operation on each of the products, the operation requiring a giv |
| 5450743 |
Method for providing constant flow in liquid chromatography system |
September 19, 1995 |
| A method of operating liquid chromatography apparatus. The method includes the steps of determining a given rate of liquid flow desired from a piston pump to the column; establishing for the piston a predetermined stroke length and rate of reciprocation for providing the given rate of li |
| 5415489 |
Reciprocating driver apparatus |
May 16, 1995 |
| A mechanical coupling including a drive shaft reciprocable on an axis; an actuator shaft mounted for reciprocating rectilinear motion on the axis; and a coupling mechanism for transmitting reciprocating motion of the drive shaft to the actuator shaft; the coupling mechanism including a |
| 5393434 |
Liquid chromatography method |
February 28, 1995 |
| A liquid chromatography system including a liquid pump having a pumping chamber, an inlet port, an outlet port, and a purge port, all communicating with the pumping chamber; a separation column; an outlet valve connected between the outlet port and the separation column and adapted t |
| 5393420 |
Liquid chromatography system |
February 28, 1995 |
| A liquid chromatography system including a liquid pump having a pumping chamber, an inlet port, an outlet port, and a purge port, all communicating with the pumping chamber; a separation column; an outlet valve connected between the outlet port and the separation column and adapted t |
| 5176799 |
Evaporator with solvent recovery feature |
January 5, 1993 |
| An evaporation apparatus including a vessel defining an opening at the top thereof and forming an evaporation chamber to hold a liquid composition; a condenser assembly disposed above and hermetically sealed to the vessel and having a wall defining a condensation chamber communicating wi |
| 5100623 |
Laboratory evaporation apparatus |
March 31, 1992 |
| An apparatus for use in isolating solids from liquids by evaporating the liquid, including a vessel for receiving a composition of liquid and solid substances; a gas supply for supplying a drying gas; a gas line for directing the drying gas from the gas supply to the vessel; a liquid |
| 5045047 |
Automated centrifuge |
September 3, 1991 |
| A centrifuge apparatus including a rotor; a drive coupled to the rotor; an inner ring adapted to pivotally support an annular array of inner containers having open upper ends; an inner coupling coupled between the rotor and the inner ring so as to cause rotation thereof and resultant |
| 4978846 |
Angular position measurement apparatus |
December 18, 1990 |
| An angular position measurement system including a rotatable mechanism, a potentiometer coupled to the rotatable mechanism and adapted to produce a first output signal indicative of the angular position thereof; a graduated element retaining a plurality of annularly distributed gradu |
| 4835711 |
Quickly reconfigurable robotic system |
May 30, 1989 |
| A robot system having various work stations and control means which allows recognition of the identity, position and geometry of a plurality of the work stations and assures movement of a robot manipulator among the work stations without its colliding with them even if new work stations |
| 4740025 |
Compound gripper device |
April 26, 1988 |
| Improved compound gripper device particularly useful with laboratory glassware and suitable for use with low or high gripping forces. When gripping forces are high, external gripper member is displaced into a resilient gripping pad which pad is of the type which provides the high-fri |
| 4727494 |
Computerized robot control system with scheduling feature |
February 23, 1988 |
| In a robotic system for efficient serialization of processing a number of samples by a robotic manipulator through an identical sequence of processing steps with a plurality of the samples being processed through the sequence at a given time, such that they must share the services of |
| 4707452 |
Laboratory evaporation |
November 17, 1987 |
| An improved system for evaporating liquid to obtain solid residue where by small quantities of a solid are recovered from a first liquid medium and dissolved in another liquid medium. The invention comprises a receptacle for holding the liquid to be treated and structure which localizes |
| 4689755 |
Self-configuring computerized robot control system with call-back feature |
August 25, 1987 |
| Apparatus constructed such that it may control various other equipment for the performance of various work tasks, even other equipment yet to be designed for work tasks yet to be designed. The improvement in the apparatus feature a call-back control procedure which is activatable from |
| 4632631 |
Multiple-function hand |
December 30, 1986 |
| A multiple-function hand useful in automated laboratory operations, particularly liquid transfer operations. A gripper and a piston operated syringe are made compatible on a single function by mounting such that their mechanical actuating mechanisms are operated parallel to one anoth |
| 4632441 |
Scoop for solids |
December 30, 1986 |
| A scoop for picking up particulate, granular, or penetrable solids. The scoop itself is a rugged one-piece construction that has a bucket member which is pushed into solids to be scooped in a normal "open" position. The scoop is constructed in the shape of a wedge to facilitate entry int |
| 4607196 |
Lab bottle capper |
August 19, 1986 |
| A torque-sensing rotary tool for use in bottle-capping, and other such applications. The tool (10) is characterized by independent motors (30 and 40) means for gripping and rotating bottles or the like and a rotation-counter which forms means, with associated circuitry (FIG. 9), to d |
| 4600473 |
Control of laboratory evaporation |
July 15, 1986 |
| Improved means for evaporating liquid to obtain solid residue. The invention is particularly useful where small quantities of a solid is to be recovered from a first liquid medium and dissolved in another liquid medium. The invention comprises a receptable for holding the liquid to be |
| 4586151 |
Self-configuring computerized robot control system |
April 29, 1986 |
| Apparatus constructed such that it may control various other equipment for the performance of various work tasks, even other equipment yet to be designed for work tasks yet to be designed. The apparatus comprises a central computer control means comprising (1) a dictionary storage means |
| 4578764 |
Self-configuring robotic system and method |
March 25, 1986 |
| A self-configuring robotic system and method are disclosed. The system employs a computer having a central processing unit and an operating system containing at least a nucleus, a sequence reprogrammer and task support services. A robotic device and at least one defined task performi |
| 4510684 |
Robot tool system |
April 16, 1985 |
| A means for automatically replacing tool means on a robot arm comprising a novel automatically releasable tool means, comprising electrical control conduits communicating with said robot and, in proper circumstance, with a tool rack to signal its position and condition on said rack. |
| 4507044 |
Robot and control system |
March 26, 1985 |
| A compact robot of the 3-axis type comprising a base-mounted motor control system with means to sense the position of a robot arm through a servo-system comprising position-sensing potentiometers mounted in the motor control system and a feed-back control system to co-ordinate the ve |
| 4488241 |
Robot system with interchangeable hands |
December 11, 1984 |
| A robot system comprising readily interchangeable hands. Usually the system will be controlled by a computer which will communicate with servo motors in each hand through an analog pulse width generator on the robot. The computer controller will also be able to utilize robot-associated |
