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Device and method for transferring a reference liquid into a measurement appliance

US7421879B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH · DE

Inventors

Gerhard Mager · Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, DE
Michael Fischer · Regensburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 17, 2004
Grant date	Sep 9, 2008
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 19, 2025

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N33/49
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A device for introducing a reference liquid into a measurement appliance for determining the parameters of liquid samples. The device has a separate conduit element which at one end can be inserted into an input port on the measurement appliance and at the other end can be inserted into an ampoule containing the reference liquid. The device also comprises a holding arrangement for holding the ampoule containing the reference liquid, which holding arrangement can be secured on the measurement appliance. There is provided the advantage of affording a high degree of reproducibility between successive introductions. There is also provided a measurement appliance with such a device, and a method for introducing a reference liquid into a measurement appliance.

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