Flow control and processing cartridge
AssigneeDelta Electronics Int'l (Singapore) Pte Ltd
InventorsQian Liang, Hao Yu
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Abstract
A flow control and processing cartridge used in a nucleic acid analysis apparatus includes a cartridge body and a reaction chip. The cartridge body includes plural chambers for storing at least one sample and plural biochemical reagents and buffers, and plural channels connected with the plural chambers. The reaction chip is in conjunction with the cartridge body and includes plural detection wells, at least one main fluid channel connected with the detection wells and adapted to dispense the sample into the detection wells, and at least one gas releasing channel connected with the detection wells and adapted to release gas from the detection wells.
Claims17
A flow control and processing cartridge used in a nucleic acid analysis apparatus, comprising:
- a cartridge body comprising plural chambers for storing at least one sample and plural biochemical reagents and buffers, and plural channels connected with the plural chambers;
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- a reaction chip in conjunction with the cartridge body and comprising plural detection wells, at least one main fluid channel connected with the detection wells and adapted to dispense the sample into the detection wells, and at least one gas releasing channel connected with the detection wells and adapted to release gas from the detection wells, wherein the main fluid channel comprises plural wide channel parts, plural narrow channel parts, and plural well inlet channels, each of the plural wide channel parts is aligned with one of the plural detection wells and connected with the corresponding detection well through the corresponding well inlet channel, each of the plural narrow channel parts is connected between two adjacent wide channel parts, and the gas releasing channel is narrower than all channels of the main fluid channel.
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