Patents Assigned to Biomedical Devices Company
  • Patent number: 5262049
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for automatically aliquotting liquids, such as blood serum, is described. The invention provides a completely automatic, clean, self-contained system for collecting and aliquotting liquids and simultaneously cleaning the aliquotting system. The system includes a serum loading station, a sensing station, an indexing table for advancing test tubes to a collection station, an aliquotting station and a wash station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Biomedical Devices Company
    Inventor: Michael A. Ferkany
  • Patent number: 5151184
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for automatically aliquotting liquids, such as blood serum, is described. The invention provides a completely automatic, clean, self-contained system for collecting and aliquotting liquids and simultaneously cleaning the aliquotting system. The system includes a serum loading station, a sensing station, an indexing table for advancing test tubes to a collection station, an aliquotting station and a wash station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1992
    Assignee: Biomedical Devices Company
    Inventor: Michael A. Ferkany
  • Patent number: 4928453
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transferring sample holders to and from workstations positioned along a transfer path, including an entrance support having a first transfer for supplying the sample holders to the transfer path, an exit support for receiving the sample holders from the transfer path, a second transfer for transferring the sample holders along the transfer path past the workstations and a controller for coordinating the actuation of the first and second transfers and the workstations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Biomedical Devices Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Ferkany, William J. Kinnier
  • Patent number: 4850470
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transferring sample holders to and from workstations positioned along a transfer path, including an entrance support having a first transfer for supplying the sample holders to the transfer path, an exit support for receiving the sample holders from the transfer path, a second transfer for transferring the sample holders along the transfer path past the workstations and a controller for coordinating the actuation of the first and second transfers and the workstations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Biomedical Devices Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael A. Ferkany