Agilent Technologies Bravo Platform User Manual page 217

D AssayMAP Bravo Platform
AssayMAP cartridge overview
Cartridge rack, lid, and receiver plate
About seating the cartridges or pipette tips on the probes
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Item Part Description
4 Bed Frits at the top and bottom of the resin bed provide a
supports, membrane that retains the resin beads within the bed while
upper and allowing a bidirectional flow of fluid to pass through the
lower cartridge.
The cartridges are shipped in a stack that consists of a lid, cartridge rack, and receiver
plate, as the following figure shows.
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AssayMAP cartridge rack lid (
The lid rests directly on top of the cartridges and provides protection during shipping
and storage. The lid can also prevent cartridges from being pushed out when the
cartridge rack is inserted into a receiver plate.
In the VWorks software, the 96AM Cartridge Rack and Receiver Plate is defined as
labware. This labware definition is installed when you install the Protein Sample Prep
Workbench.
You use the 96AM Cartridge & Tip Seating Station, shown in the following figure, to
ensure proper seating of the cartridges or pipette tips on the syringe probes. The
Protein Sample Prep Workbench includes a Cartridge Transfer utility that automatically
transfers the cartridges from the cartridge rack to the 96AM Cartridge & Tip Seating
Station. If you are using pipette tips, you use the Pipette Tip Transfer utility to
automatically transfer the pipette tips from the tip box to the 96AM Cartridge & Tip
Seating Station.
In the VWorks software, the 96AM Cartridge & Tip Seating Station is defined as labware.
This labware definition is installed when you install the Protein Sample Prep
Workbench.
Note: In a VWorks protocol, the 96AM Cartridge & Tip Seating Station is configured as
static labware in the startup protocol.
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