Automatic multiple-decanting centrifuge and method of treating physiological fluids
USRE38730E1 · kind E1 · reissue
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| Filing date | Apr 20, 2001 |
| Grant date | Apr 26, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 20, 2021 |
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- Technology area (CPC —)General
Abstract
A centrifuge is capable of holding a sample container in selected orientations, either during or after centrifugation, to drain supernatants between two or more chambers of the container. The draining may be gravity or centrifugal draining. This allows an automated process to subject a sample to a first physical or chemical treatment to produce a first supernatant, the first supernatant to be subjected to a second physical or chemical treatment, and a second supernatant to be separated from a desired component.
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