Method and apparatus for mixing liquid samples in a container using rotating magnetic fields
US6467946B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 24, 2001 |
| Grant date | Oct 22, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 24, 2021 |
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- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB01F2101/23
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Mixing a liquid solution in a container by rotating a pair of bar-shaped magnets in a coordinated pattern in which lines parallel to the axes of the bar-shaped magnets remain normal to one another, the magnets disposed in close proximity to and on opposite sides of the container a distance above the bottom of the container so that a magnetic mixing member is caused to rotate in the liquid about the same distance above the bottom of the container. Relative vertical movement of the magnets and the container generates a vortex-like mixing action throughout the container.
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