Method and apparatus for dispensing a liquid into a series of wells

US6868875B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Tibotec BVBA · BE

Inventors

• Werner De Beukeleer · Vremde, BE
• Christiaan Hubert Simon Roelant · Leuven, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 8, 2001
• Grant date: Mar 22, 2005
• Expiry date: Mar 8, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N35/109
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for dispensing a volume of fluids from a reservoir, through a fluid outlet in fluid communication with said reservoir, into each well of at least a series of wells, whereby the fluid is dispensed into said series of wells at a continuous uninterrupted flow. A micro titer plate constructed from a hydrophobic and more in particular from a plastic material containing a plurality of series of wells and to an apparatus able to perform the above method.