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Device and process unit for providing a hybridization chamber

US7618812B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

TECAN TRADING AG · CH

Inventors

Wolfgang Streit · Salzburg, AT
Gyoergy Wenczel · Seekirchen am Wallersee, AT
Anton Mathes · Neukirchen, DE
Waltraud Lamprecht · Salzburg, AT

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 28, 2005
Grant date	Nov 17, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 21, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC40B60/14
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A device provides a hybridization chamber for hybridizing nucleic acid samples, proteins or tissue sections on a slide, and is an essentially rectangular body movable opposite the slide. The device includes a surface, lines for supplying and/or removing media, a specimen supply line and an agitating device. The agitation device includes at least one membrane which separates a pressure chamer to be fillable with a pressure fluid via one of the lines, from at least one agitation chamber connected via an agitation line to the hybridization chamber. The lines are continuously open so the media therein can permanently flow unhindered. Four such devices can be combined into a process unit for providing a hybridization chamber. Such unit is pivotable around an axis and has a holder with four seats, which is lockable in relation to a baseplate, one device being insertable into each one of the seats.

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