Calibration tool for planar chip applications
AssigneeStratec SE
InventorsManuel Künz, Daniel Ahr, Martin Trump, Rüdiger Retzlaff
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Abstract
A system comprising a device or the device itself for measuring temperatures, comprising a sensor array plate, comprising on a first surface at least one temperature sensor arranged on at least one tongue that is surrounded by a cut-out leaving a bridge to the sensor array plate, wherein the at least one sensor has on both sides' spacer and a second surface opposite the first surface for connection to at least one operating plate of a thermocycler; and a pressure plate, comprising fins at the side for connection to the sensor array plate that align with the spacer of the sensor array plate when a pressure plate is arranged onto a sensor array plate.
Claims14
A device for measuring temperatures, comprising:
- a sensor array plate, comprising on a first surface at least one temperature sensor arranged on at least one tongue that is surrounded by a cut-out leaving a bridge to the sensor array plate, wherein separate spacers are arranged on the first surface of the sensor array plate on both sides of the at least one temperature sensor, and a second surface opposite the first surface for contacting at least one operating plate of a member of an automated analyser system, wherein a first thermal pad is arranged between the at least one temperature sensor and the sensor array plate and the first thermal pad is connected by thermal bridges to a second thermal pad on the second surface of the sensor array plate;
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- a pressure plate, comprising fins at a side for connection to the sensor array plate that align with the spacers of the sensor array plate when the pressure plate is arranged onto the sensor array plate.
The system of 11, wherein the member of the automated analyser system or the automated analyser system is a thermocycler.
A method for measuring temperatures in a thermocycler comprising the steps of:
- arranging microfluidic consumables on at least one operating plate of a thermocycler;
- measuring temperatures in the thermocycler with a sensor array plate,
- comprising on a first surface at least one temperature sensor arranged on at least one tongue that is surrounded by a cut-out leaving a bridge to the sensor array plate,
- wherein separate spacers are arranged on the first surface of the sensor array plate on both sides of the at least one temperature sensor, and a second surface opposite the first surface for contacting the at least one operating plate of a member of the thermocycler, wherein a first thermal pad is arranged between the at least one temperature sensor and the sensor array plate, and the first thermal pad is connected by thermal bridges to a second thermal pad on the second surface of the sensor array plate;
- and a pressure plate, comprising fins at a side for connection to the sensor array plate that align with the spacers of the sensor array plate when the pressure plate is arranged onto the sensor array plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.