# IdiCap

> IDITAC's automatic decapper and recapper for vials and tubes with screw caps, silicone stoppers or vacuum caps. Interchangeable tooling and API integration.

Screw caps, silicone stoppers and vacuum-tube caps. Retains the cap for recapping or discards it, with the same instrument.

## Your vials. Your workflow.

Interchangeable vial gripper and decapping head, in four sets. Beyond the catalog formats, you can use your own vial: enter its measurements and the instrument checks whether it fits the mounted tooling.

- **15 ml conical tube**: Screw cap · body Ø16.5 mm · height 122.6 mm · K tooling
- **22.7 mm screw-cap vial**: Screw cap · body Ø23.0 mm · height 47.7 mm · K tooling
- **23.5 mm silicone vial**: Silicone stopper · body Ø23.5 mm · height 50.0 mm · K tooling
- **17 mm silicone vial**: Silicone stopper · body Ø16.9 mm · height 35.9 mm · K tooling
- **Vacuum blood-collection tubes**: Skirted cap · body Ø15 mm · height 105–106 mm · V tooling

## Technical specifications

- **Operations**: Decapping with cap retention and recapping, or decapping with the cap dropped into a discard tray.
- **Cap types**: Screw caps, press-fit silicone stoppers and vacuum blood-collection tube caps.
- **Body diameter**: 15–35 mm; 14.5–25 mm with the vacuum-tube tooling.
- **Screw-cap diameter**: 18–30 mm and 32–45 mm.
- **Silicone vials**: Body diameter 15–27 mm.
- **Vacuum tubes**: Cap diameter 16.5–19 mm, at least 1 mm wider than the body.
- **Tooling**: Interchangeable vial gripper and decapping head, in four sets (K, V, K+V and V+K).
- **Your own formats**: Beyond the catalog, you can use your own vial: enter its measurements and the instrument checks whether it fits the mounted tooling.
- **Loading**: Manual or robotic, with a single loading position for every format.
- **Communications**: Ethernet. REST API, MQTT and SSE to integrate it with your system. Local web panel; no internet needed.
- **Power supply**: 230 V AC, standard power cable.
- **Dimensions**: 160 × 650 × 450 mm (width × depth × height) with the carriage out. Benchtop unit.

## Videos

- [15 ml conical tube](https://productos.iditac.com/idicap/video/front_falcon_cycle.mp4): Unscrews the cap, holds it and screws it back onto the same tube.
- [Vial with silicone stopper](https://productos.iditac.com/idicap/video/front_sb_cycle.mp4): The head engages beneath the stopper edge, pulls it out with an upward movement and presses it back in.
- [Vacuum tube](https://productos.iditac.com/idicap/video/front_lv_cycle.mp4): Removes the cap of a vacuum blood-collection tube and puts it back.

## What people usually ask us

### Which caps can IdiCap remove?

Screw caps, press-fit silicone stoppers and the caps of vacuum blood-collection tubes, with the same instrument.

### Can it recap the same vial?

Yes. It holds the cap while you process the sample and puts it back on the same vial. If you do not need it, it drops the cap into a tray.

### Which vial sizes does it take?

With the standard tooling, bodies of 15 to 35 mm in diameter, or 14.5 to 25 mm for vacuum tubes, and screw caps of 18 to 30 mm or 32 to 45 mm.

### What if my vial is not in the catalog?

You can set it up from its measurements and the instrument checks whether it fits the mounted tooling. If it is out of range, we design the gripper or head it needs.

### Can it be integrated with a robot or my own system?

Yes. It takes manual or robotic loading, with a single loading position for every format, and is controlled through REST API, MQTT and SSE.

### Does it need an internet connection?

No. It works on your local network over Ethernet and has its own web panel.

Web: https://productos.iditac.com/en/idicap/

Contact: info@iditac.com · https://www.iditac.com/contactus