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US 6,599,475 B1Granted
Apparatus for producing thin liquid samples for microscopic analysis
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorsKlaus W. Berndt, Brian G. Scrivens, Dwight Livingston, Robert S. Frank
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the field of diagnostics by means of microscopic sample analysis, and specifically relates to a method and apparatus for preparing thin microscopic samples of liquids, and in particular monolayers of red blood cells.
Claims20
An apparatus for producing thin samples of liquids for microscopic analysis, said apparatus comprising:
- a base portion;
- a means for containing said sample(s) carried by said base portion, having an interior, an exterior, and outside walls;
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- a lid portion,
- the base portion, said means and the lid forming a cuvette,
- wherein said cuvette has a plurality of consecutive separation walls which separate the interior of said cuvette into a plurality of successive compartments;
- wherein said cuvette has a sample entrance port that is connected with the first of said successive compartments by a channel,
- wherein each of said consecutive separation walls comprises at least two different types of through-channels, and
- wherein the liquid sample is analyzed within the last of said successive compartments.
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