ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,433, issued on June 23, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Automatic sample injection device and method of controlling automatic sample injection device" was invented by Tomonori Nozawa (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller (14) slows down and stops a turret (12) when a sensor 33 detects a first detection target portion (31) in a detection area (34). The controller (14) acquires information corresponding to the movement distance (D1) of the first detection target portion (31) from the start of slowdown of the turret (12) to the stop of the turret (12). The controller (14) moves the first detection tar...