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US 2014/0061416 A1Published application
Vertical clamp device
AssigneeLife Technologies Corporation
InventorDavid M. COX
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Abstract
A vertical clamping device is provided that supports a flow cell component in a vertical configuration in which the flow cell is on an opposite side of the vertical support from the electronic interface. The clamp includes a vertical setting to receive the flow cell component and provides an electronic interface on a vertical surface of the vertical setting. A block supports the fluidics interface and can move in a horizontal direction bringing the fluidics interface into contact with the flow cell component.
Claims22
A clamp device comprising:
- a carriage including a vertical receptacle to receive a flow cell component and having an arm, the carriage translatable between an insert position and an engage position;
- a motivator to apply force to the carriage in the direction of the engaged position away from the insert position;
- a fluidics interface block including a fluidics interface to engage flow ports of the flow cell component;
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- a drive component including a ramp structure and translatable between the insert position and a closed position, the drive component to releasably engage the arm of the carriage when the carriage is positioned between the insert position and the engage position, the ramp structure to interact with the fluidics interface block to motivate the fluidics interface into contact with the flow ports of the flow cell component when the drive component is in the closed position.
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A method of engaging a flow cell component, the method comprising:
- inserting the flow cell component into a vertical receptacle of a carriage of a clamp device, the clamp device comprising:
- the carriage including the vertical receptacle to receive the flow cell component and having an arm, the carriage translatable between an insert position and an engage position;
- a motivator to apply force to the carriage in the direction of the engaged position away from the insert position;
- a fluidics interface block including a fluidics interface to engage flow ports of the flow cell component;
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- a drive component including a ramp structure and translatable between the insert position and a closed position, the drive component to releasably engage the arm of the carriage when the carriage is positioned between the insert position and the engage position, the ramp structure to interact with the fluidics interface block to motivate the fluidics interface into contact with the flow ports of the flow cell component when the drive component is in the closed position;
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- moving the drive component past the engage position and to the closed position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.