| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6588625 |
Sample handling system |
July 8, 2003 |
| A sample handling system includes a loading rack for receiving carriers with a plurality of test tubes holding samples. A robotic device transports a carrier with the samples to a positioner that moves the tubes within the carrier into an aspiration position. After aspiration, the ro |
| 6562298 |
Structure for determination of item of interest in a sample |
May 13, 2003 |
| The embodiments disclosed relate to determination of an item of interest in a sample. One embodiment relates to a structure which comprises a process path. The process path comprises a process lane including a process step performance lane where a process step is performed, and a process |
| 5856194 |
Method for determination of item of interest in a sample |
January 5, 1999 |
| The embodiments disclosed relate to determination of an item of interest in a sample. In one method, a process path comprising a process lane including a process step performance lane where a process step is performed, and a process step avoidance lane where the process step is avoid |
| 5419835 |
Flow restrictor-separation device |
May 30, 1995 |
| A method of partitioning a pre-selected phase of a sample of liquid having a plurality of phases of differing densities, a separation device and a tube containing the separation device. The sample of liquid is placed in a first chamber of a linear tube that is separated from a second cha |
| 5389265 |
Phase-separation tube |
February 14, 1995 |
| A tube and method of partitioning a pre-selected phase of a sample of liquid having a plurality of phases of differing densities. The tube has a smaller diameter at one end. In use, a sample of liquid is passed through a first end of a linear tube and into a first chamber of said tube. T |
| 5282981 |
Flow restrictor-separation device |
February 1, 1994 |
| A method of partitioning a pre-selected phase of a sample of liquid having a plurality of phases of differing densities, a separation device and a tube containing the separation device. The sample of liquid is placed in a first chamber of a linear tube that is separated from a second cha |
| 5271852 |
Centrifugal methods using a phase-separation tube |
December 21, 1993 |
| A method of partitioning a pre-selected phase of a sample of liquid having a plurality of phases of differing densities, and a tube. A sample of liquid is passed through a first end of a linear tube and into a first chamber of said tube. The first chamber is located at the first end of t |
| 4640776 |
Plasmapheresis filtration module having pressure balancing and sealing means |
February 3, 1987 |
| A plasmapheresis filtration module having stacked grooved plates interleaved with membranes, enclosed in a unitary, flexible, impermeable envelope, sealing being effected by pressing the membranes between blood flow channels and a sealing surface on a plasma side support. |
| 4639317 |
Plasmapheresis filtration module having improved sealing means |
January 27, 1987 |
| A plasmapheresis filtration module having stacked grooved plates interleaved with membranes, enclosed in a unitary, flexible, impermeable envelope, sealing being effected by pressing the membranes between blood flow channels and a sealing surface on a plasma side support. |
| 4501951 |
Electric heating element for sterilely cutting and welding together thermoplastic tubes |
February 26, 1985 |
| An electric heating element for sterilely cutting and welding together a pair of thermoplastic tubes transversely of the axis of each tube includes as an outer layer a folded sheet of a metal, such as copper, aluminum, silver or gold, having a thermal conductivity of at least about 173 |
| 4461951 |
Method of monitoring the temperature of a sterile docking cutting means |
July 24, 1984 |
| There is disclosed a method of monitoring the temperature of a cutting element in a sterile docking apparatus for splicing two sterile thermoplastic tubes together by using a resistor-heated cutting means, the method comprises (1) supplying a constant current to the resistor; (2) mea |
