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US 10,371,700 B2Granted
In-vitro diagnostic
AssigneeCanon Medical Systems Corporation
InventorsAsuka Hirano, Shoichi Kanayama, Ichiro Tono
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Abstract
An in-vitro diagnostic includes a housing, a storage, and a blocking agent. The housing houses a liquid including a test substance included in a sample extracted from a subject. The storage stores a substance that specifically reacts with the test substance. The blocking agent is placed to separate the container and the storage.
Claims5
An in-vitro diagnostic comprising:
- a housing for a liquid comprising a test substance contained in a sample extracted from a subject;
- an optical waveguide as a support;
- a substance layer, on the optical waveguide, that stores a substance that specifically reacts with the test substance and a first blocking agent that supports the substance, wherein the substance is bound to a surface of the optical waveguide;
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- a dry film comprising a soluble coating agent and a second blocking agent separating the housing and the substance layer, wherein the dry film covers a surface of the substance layer, wherein the dry film does not contain a substance that specifically reacts with the test substance, and wherein the second blocking agent is different from the first blocking agent.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.