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Sample system for fluid samples

US7958793B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN · DE

Inventors

Julia Hiller · Nuremberg, DE
Karl-Heinz Zacher · Buch am Buchrain, DE
Dirk Weuster-Botz · Munich, DE
Andreas Kusterer · Poing, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 13, 2006
Grant date	Jun 14, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 28, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N2001/2078
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a sampling system for fluid samples having sample receiving vessel for receiving the sample, which is sealed by a septum and holder for the sample receiving vessel for receiving and holding the sample receiving vessel and also a sample probe for dipping into a fluid volume and for taking a fluid sample from the fluid volume, the sample probe being configured as a hollow volume which, at one end, has a first opening for introducing the holder and the sample receiving vessel and, at another end, is sealed by a first valve which is provided with a hollow needle which projects into the interior of the sample probe said valve being able to be opened by contact with at least one of the group comprising the holder and the sample receiving vessel and then connecting the exterior of the sample probe to the inner volume of the hollow needle.

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