Device for the carrying out of chemical or biological reactions

US9914125B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Applied Biosystems, LLC · US

Inventors

• Wolfgang Heimberg · Ebersberg, DE
• Thomas Herrmann · Ottobrunn, DE
• Matthias Knulle · Grafing, DE
• Markus Schurf · Bergen, DE
• Tilmann Wagner · Grafing, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 2013
• Grant date: Mar 13, 2018
• Expiry date: Sep 30, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01L2300/1822
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for carrying out chemical or biological reactions, having a reaction vessel receiving element for receiving a microtiter plate with several reaction vessels, where the reaction vessel receiving element has several recesses arranged in a regular pattern to receive the respective reaction vessels, a treating device for heating the reaction vessel receiving element, and a cooling device for cooling the reaction vessel receiving element. The reaction vessel receiving element is divided into several segments so that the individual segments are thermally decoupled from one another, and each segment is assigned a heating device which can be actuated independently of the others. By means of the segmentation of the reaction vessel receiving element, it is possible for zones to be set and held at different temperatures. Since the reaction vessel receiving element is suitable for receiving standard microtiter plates, the device according to the invention may be integrated in existing process sequences.