Patent · US Expired

Reagent supply system for a medical analytical instrument

US5171538A · kind A · utility

21Cited by

11References

17Claims

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Assignee

Boehringer Mannheim GmbH · DE

Inventors

Ewald Tremmel · Waldsee, DE
Erich Weiss · Manheim, DE
Thomas Allen Simon · Rockledge, US
Kurt-Lutz Elste · Langen (Hessen), DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 20, 1990
Grant date	Dec 15, 1992
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 20, 2010

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N2035/00435
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A reagent supply system for a medical anlytical instrument includes a reagent space provided on the instrument and reagent vessels which are received in the reagent space. In the reagent space there is provided at least one reagent vessel compartment with a bottom, lateral guide elements, and a top guiding element, as well as a front stop. The instrument contains a fluid communication system for connection with a reagent vessel situated in the reagent vessel compartment. On the end face of the reagent vessel compartment is disposed a hollow needle near the bottom surface thereof and extending in a direction which is parallel to the bottom surface. The reagent vessel has on its front wall facing the end face a pierceable seal with a pierceable elastic stopper.

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