Device for receiving, treating, and storing small volume samples

US8758706B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Scienova GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Heidrun Rhode · Frankenberg/Sachsen, DE
• Stefan Kreusch · Golmsdorf, DE
• Helga Endmann · Jena, DE
• Michael Händel · Jena, DE
• Günther Sammler · Jena, DE
• Edith Zimmermann · Schmölln, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 7, 2008
• Grant date: Jun 24, 2014
• Expiry date: Feb 23, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/25375
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A device is provided by means of which biomolecules in samples in a volume range from <1 μl to 500 μl can be received, treated and stored in a quick, reproducible and loss-free manner as easily, effortlessly and practically as possible, and without any risk of damaging the device. The device includes sample vessels that are configured, in terms of size and shape, as dimensionally and positionally stable capillaries that are open at both ends, the longitudinal walls of which are completely or partially made of a semi-permeable membrane.