Reagent container and canister for use in an automated microbiological analyzer

US6855540B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Dade Behring Inc. · US

Inventors

• Edward Francis Farina · New Garden Township, US
• Peter Louis Gebrian · Wilmington, US
• John Charles Mazza · معلمی نژاد, US
• Allan Cameron · Natick, US
• Alan Mudd · Beverly, US
• Richard A. O'Brien · Waltham, US
• David Orrin Swett · Bedford, US
• Adrian Mark West · Newton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 8, 2001
• Grant date: Feb 15, 2005
• Expiry date: Dec 30, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01L2300/0848
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A cup-like broth container comprising four mutually opposed pairs of connected sidewalls with a protruding rib formed on each of four perpendicularly opposed single sidewalls and four Y-shaped clamping ridges attached to and extending outwardly from a single one of the four sidewalls located between the four sidewalls having a protruding rib.