User's Manual

2-4 KleeYa - User Manual - Version 2

INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION

MODULES

2.2 MODULES

TOUCH SCREEN

AND PC

The system is provided together with the user software, which is located on the PC

of the KleeYa instrument. The user software provides access to the options and

information required to operate the KleeYa instrument and is handled via a touch

screen. All work processes and results are managed by the user software and stored

on the PC.

Optionally, the user software can communicate with devices in the laboratory

network via the PC.

REAGENT

The cooled reagent loading bay is used to load Reagent Cartridges via a special rack.

The reagent rack has a RFID label reader on each cartridge position to read

information (e.g. ID, filling level) from the Reagent Cartridges.

SAMPLE LOADING The sample loading bay is used to load test tubes via a special rack. The sample

loading bay has a camera reader to read the information on the 1D or 2D barcode

from the test tubes (samples, calibrators, or controls).

CUVETTE

Stacks of cuvettes are inserted via a funnel into the cuvette loader and stored in a

magazine. Single cuvettes are automatically separated and inserted into the

incubator for further processing.

PIPETTORS The instrument has two independent pipettors to pipette reagents, samples,

calibrators or controls into the cuvettes in the incubator. The left pipettor for

reagents has a steel needle. The right pipettor for samples, calibrators or controls

uses Anchor® Tips (disposable tips). The reagent pipettor can be cleaned

automatically with system liquid.

INCUBATOR/

WASHER

The incubator/washer module consists of two rings with 36 cuvette positions each.

The outer incubator ring has two pipetting positions for reagent and sample

pipetting into the cuvette.

The inner washer ring contains three wash stations and allows up to five wash steps

for each cuvette. Magnetic particles are separated on the wall of the cuvette by

magnets located at the wash positions and washed by dispense of wash buffer from

the three wash stations. The inner washer ring contains also further incubation

positions.

Cuvettes are transferred with cuvette pushers between the two rings and into the

measurement unit that is located in the center of the rings.

DISPENSE

CARTRIDGES

The Dispense Cartridges provide the Trigger Solutions (substrates) needed to initiate

the chemiluminescence reaction on the KleeYa instrument. The nature of the trigger

solutions might differ in conjunction with the detection system used by the vendor

of the respective KleeYa assays. The KleeYa instrument provides two possible