Apparatus for mixing and/or testing small volumes of fluids
Abstract
An apparatus and method for measuring a range of small volumes of fluids to a high degree of precision, said apparatus including: a) a single reaction chamber (20); b) a piston (30) operable within said chamber to selectively and precisely vary the internal volume of said chamber; c) a first inlet (41) to said chamber in communication with one or more fluid sources of which a portion of a first fluid of said one or more fluids is adapted to be drawn into said chamber; d) at least one further inlet (43) including a second inlet to said chamber in communication with one or more fluid sources of which a portion of a second fluid of said one or more fluids is adapted to be drawn into said chamber; and e) a sealable outlet (45), wherein said piston is adapted to progressive draw said portion of a second fluid into said chamber until either accurare metering of a volume of said first or second portion of fluid is achived or a reaction involving said first and second portions in said chamber (such as a titration reaction) is completed.
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| WO03095952A1 | World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) | A1 | |
| EP1511976A1 | European Patent Office (EPO) | A1 | |
| US2005276724A1 | United States of America | A1 | |
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| DE60328601D1 | Germany | D1 | |
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Numbers
- Publication
- 1511976
- Application
- 37296985
Titles3
- German
- VORRICHTUNG ZUM MISCHEN UND/ ODER TESTEN KLEINER FLUIDVOLUMEN
- English
- APPARATUS FOR MIXING AND/OR TESTING SMALL VOLUMES OF FLUIDS
- French
- APPAREIL DE MELANGE ET/OU DE CONTROLE DE PETITS VOLUMES DE FLUIDES
Classification
- CPC, 23
- G01N1/38
- B01J19/0093
- B01J19/185
- B01J2219/00788
- B01J2219/00889
- B01J2219/00891
- B01J2219/00952
- B01J2219/00986
- C02F1/008
- C02F1/686
- C02F1/76
- C02F2103/023
- C02F2103/42
- C02F2209/00
- C02F2209/005
- G01F11/021
- G01N21/11
- G01N21/79
- G01N31/16
- G01N33/18
- B01F35/7141
- B01F35/7174
- B01F35/754251
- IPC, 14
- B01F15 02
- B01J19 00
- B01J19 18
- C02F1 00
- C02F1 68
- C02F1 76
- G01F11 02
- G01N1 38
- G01N21 11
- G01N21 79
- G01N31 16
- G01N33 18
- G01F11 04
- G01N21 25
Designated states27
- Contracting states, 27
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Switzerland
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Germany
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Spain
- Finland
- France
- United Kingdom
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Monaco
- Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
- Portugal
- Romania
- Sweden
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- Slovenia
- Slovakia
- Türkiye