US 11,980,882 B2
Handheld fluid transfer apparatus, laboratory system comprising the handheld fluid transfer apparatus, and method for operating a handheld fluid transfer apparatus or the laboratory system
Jens Gerken, Hamburg (DE); Christian Eggert, Lubeck (DE); Tobias David, Bargteheide (DE); Wolfgang Goemann-Thoss, Hamburg (DE); Peter Schmidt, Lubeck (DE); Uwe Dunker, Hamburg (DE); and Philip Muller, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to EPPENDORF SE, Hamburg (DE)
Appl. No. 16/483,398
Filed by Eppendorf SE, Hamburg (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 2, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/052636
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 2, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/141898, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 9, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 17154629 (EP), filed on Feb. 3, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0009547 A1, Jan. 9, 2020
Int. Cl. B01L 3/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0346 (2013.01)
CPC B01L 3/0237 (2013.01) [G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/0346 (2013.01); B01L 2300/02 (2013.01); B01L 2300/027 (2013.01); B01L 2300/06 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0627 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0832 (2013.01); B01L 2400/0478 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A handheld fluid transfer apparatus (1; 1′), more particularly pipette or repeater pipette, for performing a fluid transfer process on a fluid laboratory sample, comprising
a control apparatus (2), which comprises a data processor (3) capable to execute a control program for controlling at least one electronically controllable function of the handheld fluid transfer apparatus using input data,
a user interface device (5) for receiving a user input, the user interface device comprising a motion sensor device (6) for measuring motion data of the handheld fluid transfer apparatus and for providing at least one motion data sequence, which contains subsequently measured motion data,
a motion data memory (8) for storing the at least one motion data sequence, and
an evaluation device (4) being configured to determine the input data in dependence on the evaluation of the at least one motion data sequence,
wherein the user interface device (5) is configured to provide a motion input mode, which, when active, allows that a user input via the motion sensor device (6) of the user interface device (5) of the fluid transfer apparatus is measured, while a user input via the motion sensor device (6) is not measured, when the motion input mode is inactive, and
wherein the user interface device (5) comprises an activity input device (14) for letting the user influence the activity or inactivity of a motion input mode of the fluid transfer apparatus.