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ROCK IMAGER User's Guide | Chapter 5: Components
Sorbothane Mounts for
Vibration Isolation
FRAP or SONICC
Imager
Fault Tolerance with
Crash and Plate Presence
Sensors
Plate Storage Hotels
Imager
ROCK IMAGER 1000 Dual Imager Internal View
A dual compressor, redundantly designed system can regulate
temperature down to 4 °C with an ambient temperature of 10 °C to 30 °C.
Load Port
The load port is where you load and unload plates into the load port hotel.
A hotel is composed of slots for several microplates. When you open the
door, an internal door closes to protect the internal temperature. You can
load entire multi-plate hotels via the load port.
Sorbothane Mounts
Sorbothane mounts are used under the robot hands to reduce vibration
caused by the robot's moving parts.
Plate Storage Hotels
ROCK IMAGER can image and store up to 1000 microtiter plates. This can
be reduced to 250 or 500 for cost or use case needs. For LCP projects,
the ROCK MAKER 1000 hardware can be altered to fit up to 1500 glass
sandwich plates.
Fault Tolerance with
Crash Sensors
Crash sensors detect when a robot arm collides with something during
regular operation. In the event of a crash, all operations will cease until
a user corrects the problem in order to protect your plates from
damage. Usually, plate crashes are caused by unintentional user error,
such as leaving a plate lid on a plate.
Plate Presence Sensor
The plate presence sensor detects situations where a plate may fall off
of a robot hand. This can be caused by inadvertently forgetting to
remove tape from a plate. To protect your plates from damage, if an
event trips the plate presence sensor, the imager will cease operations
until the user addresses the issue.