Sample processing devices
CA 2680285 A1 · Owner: 3M Innovative Properties Company · Inventors: Dufresne, Joel R.; North, Diane; Wood, Kenneth B.
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Methods and devices for thermal processing of multiple samples at the same time are disclosed. The sample processing devices provide process arrays that include conduits useful in distributing sample materials to a group of , process chambers located in fluid communication with the main conduits. The sample processing devices may include one or more of the following features in various combinations: deformable seals process chambers connected to the main conduit by feeder conduits exiting the main conduit at offset locations U-, shaped , loading chambers, and a combination of melt bonded and adhesively bonded areas.
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- Filed June 28, 2001. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 28, 2021.
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