1-33. (canceled)
34. An apparatus for detecting a physicochemical property of a plurality of samples disposed on a platform, the apparatus comprising:
a platform positioning stage for supporting the platform and aligning a predetermined location of said platform with a predetermined position;
a first sensor which pre-measures a characteristic of the platform at a plurality of different locations on said platform and transmits a plurality of pre-measured values to a controller;
a detector having a signal output representative of the physicochemical property, said detector positioned to detect the physicochemical property of a sample on said platform when said sample is aligned with the predetermined position, said detector having optics for receiving light transmitted from said samples, said optics mounted on an optics positioning device;
said controller adapted to receive and store said plurality of the pre-measured values and transmit a signal to the optics positioning device according to said pre-measured values to control the position of said optics relative to said platform during detection; and
said optics positioning device adapted to automatically adjust the position of the optics relative to said platform in response to a signal from the controller based upon said pre-measured values.
35. The apparatus of claim 34 wherein said detector measures fluorescent light.
36. The apparatus of claim 34 wherein said optics comprises a fiber optic bundle for transmitting light to detector electronics.
37. The apparatus of claim 34 wherein said platform comprises a multiwell plate having 96, or 384, or 1536, or 3456 wells.
38. The apparatus of claim 34 wherein said first sensor measures the distance between the first sensor and a bottom surface of said platform.
39. The apparatus of claim 34 wherein said platform is a multiwell plate, said feature is the bottom surface of said multiwell plate and said first sensor measures the distance between the first sensor and said bottom surface of said platform.
40-48. (canceled)
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A long medium for a printer, comprising:
a main body wound around a core to which an end portion of the main body is affixed; and
a core stop tape portion which joins the core and the end portion;
wherein the bonding force of the core stop tape portion is larger than the drawing force for drawing the main body wound around the core from the core.
2. The long medium for the printer according to claim 1, wherein the bonding force of the core stop tape portion is equal to or smaller than the maximum feeding force of a driving mechanism contained in the printer for feeding a leading end portion of the main body.
3. The long medium for the printer according to claim 2, wherein the maximum feeding force is the maximum pulling force of a driving motor for feeding after subtraction of a loss produced by a transmission mechanism for transmitting the maximum pulling force to the leading end portion of the main body.
4. The long medium for the printer according to claim 1, wherein the core stop tape portion is an adhesive double coated tape which affixes one of the surfaces of the adhesive double coated tape to the core and affixes the other surface to the end portion to connect the core and the end portion.
5. The long medium for the printer according to claim 1, wherein the drawing force necessary for drawing the main body is the sum of a rotational moment around the core and a running load.
6. The long medium for the printer according to claim 1, wherein the main body is a tape-shaped material having a printing surface subjected to printing.
7. The long medium for the printer according to claim 1, wherein the length of the end portion in the feeding direction is equal to or larger than the product of the detection time necessary for end detection during delivery of the end portion and the feeding speed of the main body.
8. A long medium for a printer, comprising:
a main body wound around a core to which an end portion of the main body is affixed; and
a core stop tape portion which joins the core and the end portion;
wherein the length of the end portion in the feeding direction is equal to or larger than the product of the detection time necessary for end detection during delivery of the end portion and the feeding speed of the main body.
9. The long medium for the printer according to claim 8, wherein the bonding force of the core stop tape portion is larger than the drawing force for drawing the main body wound around the core from the core.
10. The long medium for the printer according to claim 8, wherein the bonding force of the core stop tape portion is equal to or smaller than the maximum feeding force of a driving mechanism contained in the printer for feeding a leading end portion of the main body.
11. The long medium for the printer according to claim 8, wherein the maximum feeding force is the maximum pulling force of a driving motor for feeding after subtraction of a loss produced by a transmission mechanism for transmitting the maximum pulling force to the leading end portion of the main body.
12. The long medium for the printer according to claim 8, wherein the core stop tape portion is an adhesive double coated tape which affixes one of the surfaces of the adhesive double coated tape to the core and affixes the other surface to the end portion to connect the core and the end portion.
13. The long medium for the printer according to claim 9, wherein the drawing force necessary for drawing the main body is the sum of a rotational moment around the core and a running load.
14. The long medium for the printer according to claim 8, wherein the main body is a tape-shaped material having a printing surface subjected to printing.