Test device

A test device comprising:

• a housing accommodating a chromatography support,
• wherein the housing comprises:
• a supporting part that supports a container accommodating a liquid used for chromatography;
• and
• a blade with an edge provided thereon that incises the container supported by the supporting part to leak the liquid from the container to a position where the liquid comes into contact with the chromatography support, and
• wherein the supporting part comprises a container guide that supports the container and guides the container from a first position where one end of the container faces the blade edge to a second position where the container is incised by the blade from the one end of the container, and
• when the container is supported by the supporting part in the first position, a distance in a vertical direction from the one end of the container to a liquid surface when the liquid is accommodated in the container is designated “A” and a maximal length in the vertical direction of an incision formed on the container when the container is guided from the first position to the second position is designated “B,”
• B is greater than A.

A method for performing chromatography using a test device,

• wherein
• the test device comprises:
• a chromatography support;
• and
• a housing for accommodating the chromatography support,
• the housing comprises:
• a supporting part that supports a container accommodating a liquid used for chromatography, and
• a blade with an edge provided thereon that incises the container supported by the supporting part to leak the liquid from the container to a position where the liquid comes into contact with the chromatography support,
• the supporting part comprises a container guide that supports the container and guides the container from a first position where one end of the container faces the blade edge to a second position where the container is incised by the blade from the one end of the container,
• the method comprises:
• step 1 of allowing the supporting part of the test device to support the container that accommodates the liquid used for chromatography together with a gas phase in the first position;
• and
• subsequent step 2 of guiding the container from the first position to the second position, and
• when a distance in a vertical direction from an end of the container supported by the supporting part in the step 1 to a liquid surface in the container is designated “A,” and
• a maximal length in the vertical direction of an incision formed on the container in the step 2 is designated “B,”
• B is greater than A.

A test device comprising:

• a chromatography support;
• and
• a housing accommodating the chromatography support,
• wherein the housing comprises:
• a supporting part that supports a container accommodating a liquid used for chromatography, and
• a perforation/incision part that perforates or incises the container supported by the supporting part and the chromatography support to leak the liquid from the container to a position where the liquid comes into contact with the chromatography support, and
• wherein the chromatography support comprises, at a position that comes into contact with the perforation/incision part, a perforation/incision target part provided thereon in advance, which is more easily to be perforated or incised by the perforation/incision part, compared with other parts of the chromatography support.

A test device comprising:

• a chromatography support;
• and
• a housing for accommodating the chromatography support,
• wherein the housing comprises:
• a supporting part that supports a container accommodating a liquid used for chromatography;
• and
• a perforation/incision part that perforates or incises the container supported by the supporting part to leak the liquid from the container to a position where the liquid comes into contact with the chromatography support, and
• wherein a surface of the housing and/or a surface of the chromatography support with which the liquid leaked from the container comes into contact has a water contact angle of 90 degrees or smaller.