Reagent receptable and support rack for automated clinical analyzers
CA 2096199 A1 · Owner: Macko, Christopher J. · Inventors: Honig, Jordan S.; Macko, Christopher J.; Edwards, Richard B.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A reagent vessel and support rack for use in an automated clinical analyzers are disclosed. Characteristic features of the vessel are a membrane covering which is puncturable and preferably self-sealing and characteristic features of the support rack are a rigid wall and retaining members to hold the vessel in the rack with the membrane against the rigid wall of the rack, thereby providing structural support to the membrane with, holes in the wall to permit access to the member and hence to the contents of the receptacle.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed May 13, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 13, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by May 13, 2015.
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