System for forming an array of emulsions
AssigneeQuantalife, Inc.
InventorsBilly Wyne Colston, JR., Benjamin Joseph Hindson, Kevin Dean Ness, Donald Arthur Masquelier
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Abstract
A system, including method and apparatus, for forming an array of emulsions. The system may include a plate providing an array of emulsion production units each configured to produce a separate emulsion and each including a set of wells interconnected by channels that intersect to form a site of droplet generation. Each set of wells, in turn, may include (1) at least one first input well to receive a continuous phase, (2) a second input well to receive a dispersed phase, and (3) an output well configured to receive from the site of droplet generation an emulsion of droplets of the dispersed phase disposed in the continuous phase.
Claims24
A system for forming an array of emulsions in parallel, comprising:
- a plate providing an array of emulsion production units each configured to produce a separate emulsion and each including a set of wells interconnected by channels that intersect to form a site of droplet generation, each set of wells including
- at least one first input well to receive a continuous phase,
- a second input well to receive a dispersed phase, and
- an output well configured to receive from the site of droplet generation an emulsion of droplets of the dispersed phase disposed in the continuous phase.
A system for forming an array of emulsions in parallel, comprising:
- a plate having an upper member attached to a lower member to form an array of emulsion production units each configured to produce a separate emulsion, each unit including a set of wells interconnected by channels that intersect to form a site of droplet generation, each set of wells including
- at least one first input well to receive a continuous phase,
- a second input well to receive a dispersed phase, and
- an output well configured to receive from the site of droplet generation an emulsion including droplets of the dispersed phase disposed in the continuous phase,
- wherein the lower member has an upper surface that is flat and that abuts a lower surface of the upper member to form a bottom wall of openings formed in the lower surface and corresponding to the wells and the channels of each unit.
A method of forming an array of emulsions, comprising:
- selecting a plate including an array of emulsion production units each configured to produce a separate emulsion and each including a set of wells interconnected by channels that intersect to form a site of droplet generation, each set of wells including
- at least one first input well to receive a continuous phase,
- a second input well to receive a dispersed phase, and
- an output well configured to receive from the site of droplet generation an emulsion of droplets of the dispersed phase disposed in the continuous phase;
- and
- producing emulsions with the units.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.