EP0232517B1 - Pipette - Google Patents
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- EP0232517B1 EP0232517B1 EP86117244A EP86117244A EP0232517B1 EP 0232517 B1 EP0232517 B1 EP 0232517B1 EP 86117244 A EP86117244 A EP 86117244A EP 86117244 A EP86117244 A EP 86117244A EP 0232517 B1 EP0232517 B1 EP 0232517B1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01L—CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE
- B01L3/00—Containers or dishes for laboratory use, e.g. laboratory glassware; Droppers
- B01L3/02—Burettes; Pipettes
- B01L3/021—Pipettes, i.e. with only one conduit for withdrawing and redistributing liquids
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- the invention relates to a pipette with a liquid receiver according to the preamble of claim 1.
- Such a pipette is known from DE-A-2 159 541.
- the known pipette has a piston which is guided in a longitudinally displaceable manner in a cylinder, which is connected to a pressure pin protruding from the outer sleeve of the pipette, which is supported on the outer sleeve by a first compression spring and which can be moved beyond the end of the pressure stroke, to move the liquid reamer out of its receptacle. Furthermore, the stroke of the piston is limited by stops.
- EP-A-0 155 087 shows a pipette with a piston which is guided in a cylinder in a longitudinally displaceable manner and which can be moved beyond the end of the pressure stroke in order to move the liquid receiver out of its receptacle.
- DE-A-2 851 532 shows a pipette with an elastic bellows, in which the stroke of the bellows is limited by predetermined stops.
- the bellows is biased in the area in which it has a sufficiently large restoring force between the stops in such a way that it returns to a rest position predetermined by one of the stops without external aids.
- liquid transducers in particular microcapillaries, are often used for such work, which have to be manually inserted into the pipette.
- the piston which is longitudinally displaceable in the cylinder, beyond the end of the pressure stroke in order to move the liquid receiver out of its receptacle.
- the liquid receiver is held in the receptacle by friction, so that it can be moved out of the receptacle by pressure in the longitudinal direction.
- the liquid force transducer can be removed from the receptacle by hand and separated from the pipette without touching it. Because the liquid receiver is held in a sealing manner in the receptacle, the overpressure required to eject the liquid in the liquid receiver can form during the pressure stroke.
- the object of the invention is to simplify and improve the handling of the pipette specified at the outset.
- a second compression spring is provided, which is supported on the one hand on the piston and on the other hand on a stop ring which bears against a stop of the piston during the pressure stroke and subsequently against a stop of the outer sleeve.
- the force of the second compression spring must be overcome like a pressure point after the end of the pressure stroke when the piston is further depressed, as a result of which the operator can feel the end of the pressure stroke and the start of the ejection phase of the liquid sensor in a reliable manner. This simplifies and improves the handling of the pipette according to the invention.
- the advantage just described is further increased.
- the pressure point can thus be felt even better or more strongly by the operator.
- the receptacle preferably consists of a rubber grommet which ensures particularly simple and reliable frictional adhesion of the liquid receiver and seals the liquid receiver to the piston. If the receptacle consists of two support surfaces arranged at a distance from one another, the liquid receiver is held particularly tightly and firmly by this two-point support.
- An adapter for accommodating the liquid receiver creates an adaptability to liquid receivers of different external dimensions.
- a cylinder part which bears on a shoulder of the outer sleeve and has stops for the compression spring and for the stop ring.
- This cylinder part can be easily inserted into the outer sleeve of the pipette, which makes assembly easier.
- the pressure pin connected to the piston has a stop for the compression spring and stop surfaces for limiting the piston stroke, this stop and these stop surfaces can be formed in a simple manner by pushing the pressure pin onto the piston, which also facilitates assembly.
- An end cap carried by the outer sleeve with a stop for limiting the piston stroke also makes assembly easier.
- the liquid receiver consists of a microcapillary and a pressure compensation opening is provided in the cylinder.
- the pipette is therefore suitable for use with self-aspirating microcapillaries.
- the capillary is transparent, the level of the liquid in the capillary can be observed. By dimensioning the capillary, predetermined amounts of the liquid to be sucked up can be measured simply and precisely. Because the outer sleeve or the adapter is transparent in the area of the capillary, the absorbed liquid can be observed and / or measured over a greater or possibly over the entire length of the capillary.
- the pressure equalization opening is located in the work area at a point where it is closed immediately after the start of the pressure stroke, the pressure stroke can be used over its greatest possible length when using a microcapillary. This is also possible if the cylinder part described above is used.
- FIGS. 1 to 3 An embodiment of the invention is shown in FIGS. 1 to 3.
- the outer body of the pipette consists of an outer sleeve 101, an end cap 102 attached to its rear end and an adapter 111 attached to the front end of the outer sleeve 101.
- a microcapillary 120 is frictionally engaged in a rubber sleeve 110 which is connected to the outer sleeve 101 kept sealed.
- the microcapillary 120 protrudes through an opening 121 of the adapter 111.
- the rubber grommet 110 is inserted into the outer sleeve 1 and has an area of larger diameter at its end, which is delimited by two stop surfaces.
- stop surfaces lies against the end face of the outer sleeve 1
- the second stop surface lies against a stop surface of the adapter 111 formed by a shoulder.
- the rubber grommet 110 is held firmly by these two stop surfaces when the adapter 111 is connected to the outer sleeve 101.
- outer sleeve 101 In the outer sleeve 101 there is a cylinder part 105, which rests with a shoulder 126 in the interior of the outer sleeve 101.
- the outer sleeve 101 also has a stop 123 on its inner surface.
- a piston 104 is guided in a longitudinally displaceable manner in the interior of the cylinder part 105.
- a sealing ring 109 for sealing the piston against the cylinder part 105.
- the piston 104 has a larger-diameter collar 127, on which a compression spring 108 is supported.
- the other end of the compression spring 108 is supported on a stop 128 on the inner surface of the cylinder part 105.
- the compression spring 108 causes the pipette to perform the suction stroke independently.
- the piston 104 has at its end a smaller-diameter part, on which a pressure pin 103 is pushed up to a stop.
- the pressure pin 3 passes through a bore in the end cap 102 and has on its outer surface a stop ring 122 with two stop surfaces 124, 125.
- the stop surface 125 of the pressure pin 103 bears against the stop surface 126 formed by the end face of the end cap 102.
- the stop 125, 126 is reached independently by the pipette through the action of the compression spring 108.
- the stop formed by the stop surfaces 125, 126 thus limits the suction stroke of the pipette.
- the compression spring 108 is also biased in the position shown in FIG. 1.
- the end face of the pressure pin 103 forms the stop face 128 against which the compression spring 107 rests.
- the other end of the compression spring 107 rests on the stop ring 106 which is guided in a longitudinally displaceable manner on the piston and which in turn rests on the larger-diameter collar 127 of the piston 104.
- the compression spring 107 is biased in the embodiment of the invention shown in FIG. 1.
- vent hole 105a In the cylinder part 105 there is the vent hole 105a, which creates a connection to the outside air.
- the vent hole 105a is located in the area of the working volume 132 of the cylinder directly next to the sealing ring 109 of the piston 104, which delimits the working volume 132.
- a smaller-diameter part 130 of the piston 104 extends into the working volume 132 and terminates with the stop surface 131.
- the diameter of the part 130 of the piston 104 is selected so that it can penetrate the bore 133 passing through the cylinder part 105.
- the microcapillary 120 rests on the outer end face of the cylinder part 105.
- the rubber grommet 110 lies in a ring-shaped manner on the outer end face of the cylinder part 105.
- the capillary 120 When using the pipette, the capillary 120 is pushed manually through the opening of the adapter 111 and further through the rubber grommet 110 up to the stop on the front face of the cylinder part 105. In this two-point support, the capillary 120 is tight and tight.
- the piston 104 In the unactuated state shown in FIG. 1, the piston 104 is struck all the way back with the stop surface 125 of the stop ring 122 against the stop surface 126 formed by the end face of the end cap 102 by the force of the compression spring 108. The piston 104 clears the vent hole 105a so that the capillary 120 can now be guided to the liquid with the pipette.
- the capillary 120 is filled by the capillary action. The pressure equalization takes place via the vent hole 105a. If the adapter 111 is transparent, it can be easily observed that the suction process must be ended when the fill level is soft. This can be supported in that the - transparent - capillary carries 120 markings.
- the sucked-in liquid can be transferred to another vessel in that the piston 104 is pressed down against the force of the compression spring 108 via the pressure pin 103.
- the sealing ring 109 at the front end of the piston 104 moves over the vent hole 105a and builds up a slight overpressure in the working space 132 between piston 104 or sealing ring 109 and liquid, which leads to the discharge of the liquid.
- the volume of the working space and the volume of the absorbed liquid must be in a certain relationship to one another so that the liquid column in the capillary 120 is completely “blown out” when the capillary 120 is emptied, without air returning into the capillary 120.
- the piston 104 At the end of the first stroke, the piston 104 abuts with its stop ring 106 against the stop 134 formed by the end face of the cylinder part 105, as shown in FIG. 2.
- the front end 131 of the smaller-diameter part 130 of the piston 104 is now almost at the rear end of the capillary 120.
- the smaller-diameter part 130 of the piston 104 partially penetrates the bore 133 at the end of the cylinder part 105.
- the relatively high pretensioning force of the compression spring 107 must be overcome like a pressure point. This begins the ejection phase of the capillary 120.
- the movable stop ring 106 runs up to the block length of the compression spring 108 against the front of the pressure pin 103.
- the stroke is ended when the stop surface 124 of the stop ring 122 of the pressure pin 103 strikes the stop surface 123 in the interior of the outer sleeve 101, as shown in FIG. 3.
- the piston 104 sits with the end face 131 of the smaller-diameter part 130 in the exemplary embodiment shown about 2 minutes before the constriction of the rubber nozzle 110, and the capillary 120 falls out of its own accord when the pipette is held vertically.
- FIGS. 1 to 3 shows a pipette which holds the capillary tightly and axially, so that it fills itself when a liquid surface is touched.
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Priority Applications (1)
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AT86117244T ATE50518T1 (de) | 1985-12-12 | 1986-12-11 | Pipette. |
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DE3543950 | 1985-12-12 | ||
DE3543950 | 1985-12-12 | ||
DE19863614085 DE3614085A1 (de) | 1985-12-12 | 1986-04-25 | Pipette |
DE3614085 | 1986-04-25 |
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EP0232517A2 EP0232517A2 (fr) | 1987-08-19 |
EP0232517A3 EP0232517A3 (en) | 1988-06-22 |
EP0232517B1 true EP0232517B1 (fr) | 1990-02-28 |
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EP86117244A Expired - Lifetime EP0232517B1 (fr) | 1985-12-12 | 1986-12-11 | Pipette |
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- 1986-12-11 DE DE8686117244T patent/DE3669118D1/de not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1986-12-11 EP EP86117244A patent/EP0232517B1/fr not_active Expired - Lifetime
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DE3669118D1 (en) | 1990-04-05 |
EP0232517A3 (en) | 1988-06-22 |
DE3614085A1 (de) | 1987-06-19 |
US4784834A (en) | 1988-11-15 |
EP0232517A2 (fr) | 1987-08-19 |
DE3614085C2 (fr) | 1989-09-07 |
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