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Multi-channel pipette

US9339811B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateNov 22, 2013
Grant dateMay 17, 2016
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Expiry dateAug 9, 2034

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB01L2200/087
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A multichannel pipette with a base body, several spigots for clamping up pipette tips, arranged parallel side by side in a row, protruding from the base body and mounted on the base body so as to be movable in their longitudinal direction, at least one displacement equipment with a displacement chamber and a displacement member dislocatable therein, wherein the displacement chamber is connected to connection holes in the spigots in order to eject or aspirate air through openings of the connection holes in lower ends of the spigots, a first drive device, connected to the displacement member and adapted to dislocate the displacement member in the displacement chamber, first spring elements, engaging on the spigots and on the base body, wherein the spigots are dislocatable upward in their longitudinal direction from a starting position against the spring action of the first spring elements.

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