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US 5,853,586 AGranted
Thin pliable polymeric film for sealing microplates
AssigneeWhatman, Inc.
InventorsRonald J. Valus, Jonathan N. Lipsky
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AssigneeWhatman, Inc.
InventorsRonald J. Valus, Jonathan N. Lipsky
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A sealing member for a multi-well microfiltration plate comprises a flexible sealing material which, in response to the application of differential pressure, will flex or collapse in the direction of the filtration along the contour of each individual well. A process maintains a differential pressure substantially constant over a multi-well microfiltration plate comprising placing said flexible sealing member over that surface of the plate having well openings, stretching the flexible sealing member so as to seal the perimeter of each individual well, creating a differential pressure around said plate covered with said seal and filtering a media from each occupied well at a rate independent of the filtration rate of any other well while maintaining a substantially constant differential pressure around the plate until filtration in the last well containing media is complete.
A multi-well microfiltration device in combination with a sealing member, the sealing member comprising a flexible sealing material adapted to stretch across an upper surface of said multi-well microfiltration device, said microfiltration device comprising an upper surface having multiple well openings, each of said well openings having a perimeter on the upper surface of said microfiltration device, sidewalls extending downward from said perimeter, and a bottom surface such that a well for retaining a media to be filtered is formed, said flexible sealing member individually sealing said perimeter of each well opening and in response to the application of differential pressure, said flexible sealing member being capable of flexing or collapsing into each well, at a rate independent of the flexing or collapsing rate in any other well, so as to maintain a constant differential pressure around said device.
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