Sterile protection attachment for tips of liquid-handling devices
AssigneeEppendorf AG
InventorsKarl Rix, Sebastian Selzer, Falk Schneider, Kai Schüler, Christophe Schillig
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Abstract
A sterile protection attachment for a tip of a liquid-handling device including a mount for fastening the sterile protection attachment to the liquid-handling device, a protective bell arranged in the mount and having an inner cavity, and a supply line for sterile air connected to the inner cavity, in which the protective bell has an opening at a lower end and has a receiver for the tip at an upper side opposite the lower end and within which the tip can be flushing with sterile air.
Claims19
A sterile protection attachment for a tip of a liquid-handling device, comprising a mount configured for fastening the sterile protection attachment to the liquid-handling device, a protective bell arranged in the mount and having an inner cavity, and a supply line configured for introducing sterile air to the inner cavity, wherein the protective bell defines an opening at a lower end and the protective bell has a receiver, and wherein the receiver defines an opening through which the tip is configured to be guided, the receiver being disposed at an upper side of the protective bell opposite the lower end.
A method for operating a sterile protection attachment disposed on a tip of a liquid-handling device, the sterile protection attachment comprising a mount configured for fastening the sterile protection attachment to the liquid-handling device, a protective bell arranged in the mount and having an inner cavity, and a supply line configured for introducing sterile air to the inner cavity, wherein the protective bell defines an opening at a lower end and the protective bell has a receiver, and wherein the receiver defines an opening through which the tip is configured to be guided, the receiver being disposed at an upper side of the protective bell opposite the lower end, the method comprising the steps of:
- introducing one end of the tip of the liquid-handling device into the inner cavity of the protective bell of the sterile protection attachment, wherein the tip is guided through the receiver of the protective bell;
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- enveloping the end of the tip with sterile air from the supply line for sterile air.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.