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US 12,072,344 B2Granted
Automated fluid handling system
AssigneeGE Healthcare Bio-Science AB
InventorsJohan Blomberg, Mats Lundkvist
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Abstract
Automated fluid handling system comprising a housing and two or more fluid handling units arranged as interchangeable modular components with an external fluidics section and an internal non fluidics section, and wherein the housing comprises a liquid handling panel with two or more of component positions for receiving said interchangeable modular components such that the external fluidics section is separated from the non fluidics section by the liquid handling panel.
Claims9
A column valve for an automated liquid chromatography system, the column valve comprising:
- i. two or more pairs of column connection ports each for connecting a chromatography column therebetween;
- ii. an inlet port;
- iii. an outlet port;
- wherein the valve is configured for selective connection of a column connected to a pair of column connector ports by connecting the inlet port to one of the ports in the pair of column connector ports and the outlet port to the other port of the pair of column connector ports, and wherein the valve further comprises integrated pressure sensors integrated into the inlet and outlet ports of the valve, whereby the automated liquid chromatography system can measure the actual pressure over the connected column, and a liquid flow direction can be set from the top of the column to the bottom of the column, and from the bottom of the column to the top of the column.
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