EP0035762B1 - Vorrichtung zum Mischen einer Flüssigkeit in einem Untersuchungsröhrchen - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Mischen einer Flüssigkeit in einem Untersuchungsröhrchen Download PDF

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EP0035762B1
EP0035762B1 EP81101599A EP81101599A EP0035762B1 EP 0035762 B1 EP0035762 B1 EP 0035762B1 EP 81101599 A EP81101599 A EP 81101599A EP 81101599 A EP81101599 A EP 81101599A EP 0035762 B1 EP0035762 B1 EP 0035762B1
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Erling Berglund
Hans Ing. Krook
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Alfa Wassermann Inc
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F33/00—Other mixers; Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/45—Magnetic mixers; Mixers with magnetically driven stirrers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F31/00—Mixers with shaking, oscillating, or vibrating mechanisms
    • B01F31/20—Mixing the contents of independent containers, e.g. test tubes
    • B01F31/27—Mixing the contents of independent containers, e.g. test tubes the vibrations being caused by electromagnets

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  • the present invention relates to a device for mixing a liquid in a test tube.
  • the previously known devices for this purpose can essentially be divided into three categories.
  • the first category includes devices that have a rod-like or wire-like stirrer or mixer that can be immersed in the contents of an examination tube and can be set into a vibration or oscillation movement.
  • the construction and operation of such a device are relatively complicated when it is used in a device in which, for example in an automatically operating analysis device, a large number of test tubes are to be automatically brought into a position in which the mixing of the Contents of the test tube should be effected.
  • stirrer component takes droplets from the contents of one test tube with it when it is pulled in and withdrawn from successive test tubes and these droplets are carried into the next test tube, as a result of which the samples in the different test tubes are contaminated.
  • each test tube includes a movable stirrer component made of magnetizable material or in the form of a permanent magnet, which can be set in rotation or in another way by a changing magnetic field generated outside the test tube (see DE-A -2 201 204 and DE-1 638 968).
  • the magnetic field is generated, for example, by electromagnets or a rotating permanent magnet.
  • the third category relates to devices that have a mechanical vibration or shake mechanism that is mechanically connected to the test tube to vibrate or shake it (see US-A-4 042 218). Even with such a device, mechanically movable parts directly outside the examination tube are necessary, with the aforementioned disadvantages. It should also often be difficult to mechanically couple the test tube to the vibration device in a simple and reliable manner. This applies in particular to the automatic analyzers mentioned above, in which there must be a possibility of successively transporting a large number of test tubes to the vibration device and temporarily connecting successive test tubes to it.
  • the object of the present invention is therefore to create a device of the type specified in the introduction, with the aid of which the contents of an examination tube can be effectively mixed.
  • the device is intended to avoid the use of a stirring body or stirring elements in the test tube itself and not to require any moving parts outside the test tube or mechanical connections of any kind between the test tube and outer vibrating elements.
  • the device of the type specified in the introduction consists of: an examination tube and an annular holder, in which the examination tube by means of a flange which extends outward from the examination tube and which rests on the annular holder and is suspended in such a way that the examination tube consists of one can swing in a substantially vertical rest position in all directions, the maximum oscillation being limited; a magnetic member attached to the outside at the lower end of the test tube; at least three stationary electromagnets, each with a first pole and a second pole, the first poles of the electromagnets being arranged such that their pole faces lie in a common, essentially horizontal plane, and at a distance below the lower end of the test tube and essentially on a circle through the center of which the axis of the test tube leads in the rest position; and a control device by means of which the electromagnets can be switched on in such a sequence that, due to the magnetic interaction between the magnetic component on the examination tube and the first poles of the electromagnets, an essentially
  • the embodiment of the device according to the invention shown by way of example in the figures is intended for use in connection with an automatically operating analysis device, in which a large number of examination tubes 1, of which only one is shown, is arranged on the periphery of a partially shown turntable 2 and forward is transported, the turntable rotates about an axis of rotation, not shown.
  • the test tubes can be successively transported to at least one position in which they are vibrated or pivoted around in order to cause their contents to mix.
  • the rotary table 2 has on its periphery annular openings 3, the number of which corresponds to the number of examination tubes which it is intended to carry.
  • the examination tubes 1 can extend through these openings 3.
  • Each examination tube 1 has, in the vicinity of its open end, a flange 4 designed as a circumferential lip, which rests on the edge of the associated opening 3.
  • the underside of the lip 4, like the edge of the associated opening 3, is advantageously beveled conically.
  • the diameter of the openings 3 is larger than the outer diameter of the examination tube 1.
  • the test tube 1 advantageously also has a further circumferential annular lip 6, which is arranged on the test tube in such a way that it is located at a certain minimum distance below the lower surface of the rotary table 2 and thus interacts with this lower surface in such a way that the maximum oscillation of the examination tube 1 is limited to a maximum permissible inclined position, which is indicated in FIG. 1 by the two dash-dotted lines 7.
  • the test tube 1, which is suspended from the turntable 2 can for example be immersed in a thermostatic bath 8, which is only partially shown in the drawing and serves the purpose of keeping the contents of the test tubes constant at a certain temperature.
  • each test tube has at its closed end, more precisely on its outer surface, a fixed disk or plate 9 made of a magnetizable material.
  • a fixed disk or plate 9 made of a magnetizable material.
  • electromagnets 10, 11, 12 and 13 are arranged at the point at which the test tubes are to be oscillated.
  • the electromagnets are arranged below the bottom 14 of the bath 8, their iron cores, for example 11a, extending through the bottom 14 of the bath 8.
  • On the upper surface of the base 14 there is one pole surface 10b, 11b, 12b and 13b, which is designed as an anchoring plate, for each core.
  • each pole face 10b, 11b, 12b, 13b is respectively arranged in a corner of a square, the center of which lies below the rest position of the magnetizable plate 9 on the bottom of the examination tube 1, i.e. the pole faces are evenly distributed on a circle, through the center of which the center line 5 of the examination tube 1 runs in its rest position.
  • the electromagnets are switched on in a predetermined order, in such a way that at a certain point in time two adjacent pole faces 10b to 13b are magnetized simultaneously, but with opposite polarities, and the pair of at the same time magnetized pole faces are continuously shifted in a certain direction on the circle on which the pole faces lie. If, for example, the pole faces 10b and 11b are magnetized at the same time, the pole face 10b having the polarity N and the pole face 11b having the polarity S, the pole faces 11b and 12b are magnetized simultaneously in the following time interval, the pole face 11b being one S polarity and the pole face 12b has the polarity N.
  • the pole faces 12b and 13b are magnetized simultaneously, the pole face 12b having the N polarity and the pole face 13b having the S polarity.
  • the pole faces 13b and 10b are magnetized simultaneously, the pole face 13b having the S polarity and the pole face 10b having the N polarity.
  • the liquid in the test tube is thrown along the wall of the test tube, the liquid being mixed very effectively.
  • the speed at which the test tube is moved can be determined by the frequency at which the electromagnets 10 to 13 are excited. In this way, the speed can be set so that the most effective possible mixing is achieved.
  • each of the electromagnets 10 to 13 has the same polarity each time it is excited. This is particularly advantageous since it simplifies the electrical circuit for sequentially switching on the electromagnets, but it is not absolutely necessary to operate the device.
  • the pole faces 10b to 13b of the electromagnets can, for example, also be magnetically excited in the following order:
  • this embodiment of the device according to the invention can in some cases be sensitive to differences in the size of the air gap between the magnetizable plate 9 on the test tube 1 and the pole faces 10b to 13b of the electromagnets 10 to 13.
  • the magnetizable plate 9 on the bottom of the examination tube 1 is replaced by a plate-shaped or disc-shaped permanent magnet, the magnetic axis of which coincides with the axis of the test tube 1, i.e. the disc-shaped magnet has one of its magnetic poles on its upper surface and the second magnetic pole with the opposite polarity on its lower surface.
  • the electromagnets 10 to 13 can preferably be energized in such a sequence that a single electromagnet, for example the electromagnet 10, is supplied with energy at all times, so that its pole face 10b is magnetized with a certain polarity , for example as the North Pole (N). This excitation is then continuously shifted in a certain direction around the circle of electromagnets 10 to 13.
  • the order of magnetization of the pole faces 10b to 13b can be, for example:
  • parentheses are used to indicate that the pole face in question assumes the polarity indicated in parentheses, even though the electromagnet to which it belongs is not energized at the time. This is due to the fact that the cores of the electromagnets 10 to 13 are connected to one another at their lower ends by a magnetizable pole piece 15. If the disc-shaped permanent magnet 9 on the bottom of the examination tube 1 is oriented such that its south pole points downward to the pole faces 10b to 13b, then it is attracted to the pole face which is magnetized with N polarity at a given time. As a result, the test tube 1 is set in a nutation movement, as described above. In this embodiment of the invention, however, this movement is more defined and less dependent on the size of the air gap between the permanent magnet 9 and the pole faces 10b to 13b than in the embodiment of the device described first.
  • the plate or disc 9 is designed as a permanent magnet as described above, but the electromagnets 10 to 13 are switched on in such a sequence and with such polarities that two at a time neighboring electromagnets are simultaneously supplied with energy in such a current direction that their pole faces have the same polarity and the pair of simultaneously excited electromagnets moves continuously around the circle of electromagnets 10 to 13.
  • the magnetization sequence of the pole faces 10b to 13b is, for example, the following:
  • the brackets () are used here with the same meaning as in the previous table.
  • the permanent magnet 9 on the examination tube 1 is attracted to the pair of pole faces 10b to 13b at any time, which is magnetized at that time with the polarity opposite to the lower surface of the permanent magnet.
  • the test tube is set into a nutation movement of the type described above. It is easy to see that in this case it is immaterial which polarity the permanent magnet 9 has on its lower surface.
  • the illustrated and described embodiments of the invention each have four electromagnets 10 to 13 and this number has been proven in practice, it should be expressly pointed out that the number of magnets used can be greater or less than four, for example three, five or six.
  • the device according to the invention can also be modified in other respects within the scope of the invention. It is also easy to see that the device according to the invention can also be used advantageously in conjunction with apparatus other than an automatic analysis device of the type shown schematically in FIG. 1.

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