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US 12,103,735 B2Granted
Packaging for plates
AssigneeMeso Scale Technologies, LLC.
InventorsNataliya Lavrykova-Marrain, Jonathan Vu Tran
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Abstract
The disclosure is directed to a package for containing a plurality of substantially rectangular assay plates, each plate having a peripheral flange. In one embodiment, the package comprises a cavity having extending therein one or more sloped buttress elements spaced across at least a portion of a top corner, and one or more adjacent protrusions extending from the bottom and at least partially up one or both sidewalls, each set of protrusions forming grooves therebetween into which fit the flanges of respective assay plates. The package can comprise a transparent polymer through which product information located on the assay plates can be read or scanned.
Claims18
An assay plate package comprising:
- an upper shell connected by a hinge member to a lower shell and cooperatively defining with the lower shell a cavity when the upper and lower shells are in a closed position, the cavity configured to contain a plurality of substantially rectangular assay plates, each plate comprising a front side and a back side, an edge flange extending around the periphery of the plate, a plate outer sidewall having a width and extending orthogonally from the edge flange and around the periphery of the plate, and a chamfered corner portion,
- the upper shell comprising a substantially rectangular planar top panel having a pair of opposed substantially parallel first and second upper shell end walls, a pair of opposed substantially parallel first and second upper shell sidewalls, and at least one buttress element located catercorner to a portion of the first upper shell sidewall and the top panel and extending into the cavity, the buttress element having a sloped surface complementary to the chamfered corner portion of the assay plate and configured to contact the chamfered corner portion of a respective assay plate when the upper and lower shells are in a closed position, and
- the lower shell comprising a substantially rectangular planar bottom panel having a pair of opposed substantially parallel first and second lower shell end walls, a pair of opposed substantially parallel first and second lower shell sidewalls, at least one of the first lower shell sidewall or the second lower shell sidewall comprises at least one pair of adjacent protrusions extending into the cavity from the first lower shell sidewall or second lower shell sidewall upwardly from the bottom panel, the pair of adjacent protrusions forming a first groove therebetween, the first groove configured to receive a first portion of a flange of a respective assay plate.
An assay plate package comprising:
- an upper shell connected by a hinge member to a lower shell and cooperatively defining with the lower shell a cavity when the upper and lower shells are in a closed position, the cavity configured to contain a stack of nested, substantially rectangular assay plates, the stack having a first end and a second end and comprising a plurality of equally spaced flanges disposed along the axial length of the stack from the first end to the second end, the flanges extending around the periphery of the stack, the flanges forming slots therebetween, each slot having a chamfered corner portion;
- the upper shell comprising a substantially rectangular planar top panel having a pair of opposed substantially parallel first and second upper shell end walls, a pair of opposed substantially parallel first and second upper shell sidewalls, and a plurality of buttress elements located catercorner to and along at least part of the inside edge formed by the top panel and the first upper shell sidewall, each buttress element extending into the cavity and configured to snugly fit into a slot on the stack and having a sloped surface complementary to the chamfered corner portion of the slot to contact the chamfered corner portion when the upper and lower shells are in a closed position;
- the lower shell comprising a substantially rectangular planar bottom panel having a pair of opposed substantially parallel first and second lower shell end walls, a pair of opposed substantially parallel first and second lower shell sidewalls;
- the first lower shell sidewall comprising at least one first pair of first and second adjacent protrusions extending into the cavity from the first lower shell sidewall upwardly from the bottom panel, the first and second adjacent protrusions forming a first groove therebetween, the first groove configured to receive a first flange portion of a respective assay plate in the stack;
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- the second lower shell sidewall comprising at least one second engagement segment comprising a pair of third and fourth adjacent protrusions extending into the cavity from the second lower shell sidewall upwardly from the bottom panel, the adjacent protrusions forming a second groove therebetween, the second groove directly opposite and aligned with the first groove and configured to receive a second flange portion of the same respective assay plate.
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An assay plate package comprising:
- a cavity defined by a top panel comprising peripheral top sidewalls, and an opposed bottom panel comprising peripheral bottom sidewalls;
- a plurality of sloped buttress elements extending into the cavity and spaced across at least a portion of an inside edge where the top panel meets a respective top panel sidewall;
- one or more protrusions extending from respective bottom sidewalls into the cavity with adjacent protrusions forming a respective groove;
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- a stack of nested assay plates, each plate comprising a flange and an assay plate outer side wall, the assay plate outer sidewalls of adjacent flanges each forming a slot, wherein a respective flange fits into a respective groove, and the sloped surface of a respective buttress element fits into a respective slot, and wherein the flange of each assay plate is oriented perpendicular to the top panel and the bottom panel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.