Device for Providing pipette tips

US9433944B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Eppendorf AG · DE

Inventors

• Michael Blumentritt · Hamburg, DE
• Frank Horstmann · Lensahn, DE
• Juergen Boeckmann · Norderstedt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 11, 2014
• Grant date: Sep 6, 2016
• Expiry date: Apr 11, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01L2300/0858
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A device for providing pipette tips includes a plate-shaped carrier with a base surface, holes in the carrier perpendicular to the base surface, at least one vertically running cut-out in the outer sides of two opposing narrow sides of the carrier to accommodate two vertical guide ribs at a distance from each other, pipette tips in the holes, a bottom part with sidewalls that extend upwards from a standing surface, said sidewalls surrounding a rectangular seat for the carrier with the inserted pipette tips, wherein two opposing first sidewalls project further upward from the standing surface than to opposing second sidewalls, a supporting mechanism on the inner sides of at least two opposing sidewalls to support the carrier in a horizontal alignment at the bottom edges of narrow sides, and two vertical guide ribs engaging in the at least one cut-out when the carrier is placed on the supporting mechanism.