Provided are low flow groundwater fluid sampling systems and related methods of collecting fluid samples, including a low flow pump, flow cell, waste container and a communication device in communication with those components. In this manner, the low flow pump may be controlled to ensure a desired constant flow-rate is achieved, and a remote operator may monitor the status of fluid being pumped to the flow cell with the communication device, such as with a portable electronic device, including a smart phone. The system may alert the operator that fluid is ready to be collected for sampling, including at an off-site laboratory. Particularly useful applications are for monitoring groundwater quality and contamination.

Slide analysis a gripper with three sensors for controlling a slide grip sequence and at least one rotatable carousel with a slide receiving channel. The systems also include a robot with a robot arm that holds a slide gripper residing inside the housing in communication with the rotatable carousel. The systems also include a load lock chamber and a door sealably coupled to the second end portion and an acquisition vacuum chamber with an X-Y stage and a slide holder with a vacuum seal.

A sample injector for chromatography 10 where air or moisture can be prevented from getting mixed in when a sample is injected is provided with a syringe 11, a syringe drive unit 13, a turret 12 in which sample vials 4 are placed, a turret drive unit 14, and a control unit 30 that controls the syringe and turret drive units 13 and 14. The configuration includes a housing 15 having a gas introduction port 15a and a gas discharge port 15b that communicate with the inner space, where the syringe 11 sucks a sample from a sample vial 4, the sucked sample is injected into the sample vaporizing chamber 23 in a chromatograph 20, and a predetermined gas is introduced through the gas introduction port 15a, and at the same time, a predetermined gas is discharged through the gas discharge port 15b when a sample is analyzed.

Method for attaching a sample vessel rack (1, 1) in an apparatus (2, 2, 23), which apparatus comprises a slot (4, 24) into which the sample vessel rack is inserted, wherein magnetic attraction force is utilized in the attachment and correct positioning of the sample vessel rack (1, 1) into the slot (4, 24), where in the slot (4, 24) comprises a movable member (9, 9, 28, 35), which movable member is moved to a locking position with a magnetic attraction force when the sample vessel rack (1, 1) is in a correct position in the slot, and which movable member comprises at least one protrusion (11, 33) which protrusion sets itself in a notch (37) formed in the sample vessel rack in the locking position of the movable member. The invention also relates to such a sample vessel rack and an apparatus, and to a use of such a sample vessel rack.

Various embodiments are described herein for an apparatus and method for indicating at least one property related to an object. Detection data and optionally input data are received for the at least one property related to the object and at least one light property that corresponds to the at least one property related the object based on the detection signal is determined using a processing unit. A light is then generated and projected to illuminate and/or surround at least a portion of the object, the light being based on the at least one light property to indicate the at least one property related to the object.

A pretreatment apparatus includes a pretreatment container placement section where a pretreatment container which is housing a specimen holding member including a microchannel for holding a specimen is placed; a carrying mechanism for carrying the pretreatment container that is placed at the pretreatment container placement section; and a pretreatment section including a port where the pretreatment container that is carried by the carrying mechanism is placed, the pretreatment section being configured to perform pretreatment including a shaking process of shaking the pretreatment container to extract the specimen from the specimen holding member in the pretreatment container that is placed in the port.

Certain configurations described herein are directed to autosamplers. In some instances, the autosampler may include a support comprising a body configured to receive two or more articles at separate sites of the body. The autosampler may also include a first motor coupled to the support and configured to rotate the support in an x-y plane, and a second motor configured to move the support in a z-direction to load one of the at least two articles at the separate sites in the body of the support. An encoder may also be used with the autosampler if desired.

There is provided a receptacle carrier unit and automated analyzer capable of suppressing generation of temperature nonuniformities among liquid aliquots received in plural receptacles without increasing the parts count. The receptacle carrier unit has a turntable, a turntable drive, a cool box, a cooling portion, and a control section. The control section controls the turntable drive, based on the number and installation locations of the receptacles installed in the cool box and on temperature distribution information, to homogenize the effects that the individual receptacles receive from the cool box.

The present invention is concerned with an autonomous sampling system for use in a pharmaceutical facility in order to effect the autonomous sampling of pharmaceutical substances being manufactured in the facility and/or for effecting the autonomous sampling or monitoring of environmental conditions within the facility.

An ultra-deep reservoir stratified water sample and sediment core integrated artificial intelligence sampling device, comprising a sampling device main chamber, an attitude balance sensor, a propeller, a balance base, and a sampler body, wherein the attitude balance sensor and the sampler body are disposed inside the sampling device main chamber; the propeller is disposed outside the sampling device main chamber; and the balance base is located at a bottom end of the sampling device main chamber. The sampling device of the present invention is an intelligent sampling device integrating high-definition underwater topography observation, undisturbed sediment core collection, vertical stratified accurate sampling of water bodies, and real-time in-situ monitoring of key physical and chemical parameters, and can be flexibly applied to deep and shallow water environments under complicated conditions.